Guest: Lisa Vetten: Mellon Doctoral Fellow at the Wits City Institute of the University of the Witwatersrand. She works on gender, violence, the state and women's organisations and movements

 

Guest: Prof Alf Nilsen: professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at University of Pretoria

 

Guest: Prof Andre Thomashausen: Professor emeritus for International Law at Unisa

 

 

Guest: Guest: Ali Gule: community Engagement Officer, Organization Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa)

 

Guest: Nobuntu Ciko Duze - Deputy Director: Transport System Management, City of Johannesburg, Transport Department.

 

Guest: Chad Thomas - Forensic Investigator, IRS Forensic Investigations

 

Guest: Chris De Kock: Crime Analyst and former SAPS Crime Analysis Centre Head

 

 

Guest: Steven Gruzd: head of the Africa-Russia Project at the South African Institute of International Affairs

 

 

Guest: Vhathuka Mbelengwa: is a gig economy activist and founder of the Private Public Transport Association and Shared Economy Affiliates. He is an active citizen and the national e-hailing spokesperson.

 

 

Guest: Sonja Carstens: Spokesperson of Motor Industry Staff Association (Misa)

 

 

Guest: Barba Gaoganediwe, Spokesperson Gauteng Tourism Authority

 

 

16 May 2024

 

1. South Sudan – Juba, South Sudan is facing an economic meltdown as the war in neighbouring Sudan continues to disrupt its oil exports according to the latest report of the International Crisis Group (ICG) report.

 

1. The Gambia- Switzerland, The Switzerland's top criminal court has convicted and sentenced a former interior minister, Ousman Sonko, from 2006 to 2016 under then-President Yahya Jammeh, to 20 years in prison.

 

1. Gabon- France, Former President Ali Bongo of Gabon and his two youngest sons, Jalil and Bilal, have started a hunger strike to protest their "sequestration" and alleged "acts of torture" against family members.

 

1. Mozambique- Cabo Delgado, A human rights watch report implicates an armed group linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Mozambique that it is using boys as young as 13 to raid and loot the town of Macomia, in Cabo Delgado province.

 

1. In our historical archives, it was on this day 16 May 1977 when the late Mama Nomzamo Winnie Mandela was banished to Brandfort to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State where she was unceremoniously dumped at house 802 with her youngest daughter, Zinzi.