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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- The Competition Commission has approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa for leave to appeal the Competition Appeal Court judgment in a case against banks alleged to have colluded in the rand/dollar currency pair
Guest: Rob Rose: Editor, Financial Mail
7 min - Environmental toxins poisoning epigenetic inheritance
Guest: Prof Tiaan de Jager: Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Pretoria
6 min - There was a swearing in ceremony at International Court of Justice yesterday for our first ever permanent judge at the court - Judge Dire Tladi - who now officially takes office as a full judge of the court
Guest: Professor Dire Tladi - Future Africa Research Chair in Global Equity
7 min - Mediated Conversation: Is NHI constitutional?
Clip: Dr Nicholas Crisp – from the Department of Health
Guest: Dr Mvuyisi Mzukwa: chair of SAMA and spokesperson for the SA Health Professionals Collaboration (SAHPC)
Guest: Dr Katlego Mothudi - MD Board Of Healthcare Funders Southern
Guest: Barry Mitchell: Parliamentary Officer, National Education, Health & Allied Workers Union
23 min - Ahead of the SONA 2024, Former Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa has suggested that President Ramaphosa has completely wasted all of the good will that he had when he came into office
Guest: Mbhazima Shilowa is the former premier of Gauteng and the former general secretary of Cosatu.
8 min - Mining companies' social licences to operate depend on their ability to respect human rights
Guest: Paula-Ann Novotny, Senior Associate at Webber Wentzel
8 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
5 February 2024:
- Senegal-Dakar, Senegal's parliament adopts new bill and delays presidential elections until December 15 in a chaotic voting process;
- Egypt- Gaza- USA, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi has meet with US secretary Antony Blinken on the escalating Rafah situation;
- Ethiopia-Somalia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he has no intention of going to war with Somalia rather interested in peace with its neighbour;
- Zimbabwe -Harare, Zimbabwe's ruling party ZANU-PF has secured supermajority in the 280-member parliament after the by-election held in Mashonaland East province;
- In our historical archives, it was this day 7 February 1986 when a world renowned multi-disciplinary scholar and Pan Africanist from Senegal, Dr Cheik Anta Diop dies at the age of 63.
6 min - There was an important ruling in the Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday - it said that the CEO of Vodacom Shameel Joosub must make a bigger offer to the inventor of the please call me service Nkosana Makate.
Guest: Nkosana Makate: “Please call me” inventor
8 min - The Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky says he is now considering making a major change to the leadership of his country’s war effort - amid intense speculation he is preparing to remove the head of the military Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Guest: Gustavo de Carvalho: Senior Researcher, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
5 min - The US secretary of state Antony Blinken is back in the Middle East this morning - as part of the latest round of attempts to try and broke some kind of peace between Israel and Hamas.
Guest: Naeem Jeenah: Senior Researcher: Humanity at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
5 min
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