Guest: Siyabonga Myeza: Greenpeace Africa’s Climate and Energy Campaigner

 

Guest: Jan Vermuelan: Editor, My Broadband

Guest: Siphumelele Zondi: Senior Producer, Anchor and Lecturer at the Durban University of Technology.

Guest: William Bird: Director, Media Monitoring Africa

 

Guest: Nkululeko Nkewu: Co-founder of iDiski Times

 

Guest: Prof Norbet Ndjeka: Head of TB Programme, Department of Heal

 

Guest: Thulani Ngwenya - President, Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (POPCRU)

 

Guest: Reagen Allen: Provincial Minister Police Oversight and Community Safety in the Western Cape

Guest: Monde Bambelo - Chairperson Khayelitsha Community Police Forum

 

Guest: Pierre De Vos: Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT

10 June 2024

11 June 2024
1. Malawi – Lilongwe, The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima, former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri and eight others left the southern African nation's capital, Lilongwe, at 9:17 a.m. and had been expected to land 45 minutes later at Mzuzu International Airport, about 370 kilometers (230 miles) to the north.

2. Egypt- Unites States of America, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Middle East this week as a proposed Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal hangs in the balance after the dramatic rescue of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza in a major military raid and turmoil in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

3. Uganda – Kampala, President Museveni has directed landlords charging excessive nominal rent fees (obusuulu) to return the excess to bibanja holders immediately or face arrest.

4. Zimbabwe- Harare, A LEAKED voice note by controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has fingered President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his expansive and shadowy dealings that include millions paid for printing and delivery of last year's voting material.

5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 11 June 1976 when the then Apartheid deputy minister of Bantu Education, Andries Treurnicht, rejected the applications by five Soweto schools to depart from the so-called 50-50 policy in secondary education, which entailed equal use of English and Afrikaans in schooling.

 

Guest: Anthoni van Nieuwkerk:  professor of International and Diplomacy Studies at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: Unisa

 

Guest: Canaan Mdletshe: Secretary General, The National Freedom Party (NFP)