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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- Is there a future of National Health Insurance in SA?
Guest: Nicholas Crisp: Deputy Director General, Department of Health
6 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
6 February 2024:
- Senegal-Dakar, Senegal government restricted access to the mobile internet as lawmakers debated a bill to possibly extend the president's tenure;
- Sudan -Khartoum, The paramilitary rapid support forces have tampered with telecommunications networks across Sudan as the conflict intensify;
- Liberia-Monrovia, President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has expressed explicit confidence in Foreign Affairs Minister -designate Sara Besloyw Nyanti;
- Namibia - Windhoek, Constitutional provisions that has smoothen presidential succession in Nambia after the sudden loss of its third president and founding Prime Minister Hage Gottfried Geingob;
- In our historical archives, it was on this day 6 February 1945 when A Rastafarian and Pan Africanist reggae musician, Robert Nesta Marley was born in Nine Mile, Jamaica.
6 min - Mediated Conversation: why do we have low entrepreneurial activity in SA?
Guest: John Dludlu: CEO, Small Business Institute
Guest: Tebogo Khaas – Chief Entrepreneur Institute of Chartered Entrepreneurs
Guest: Prof Natanya Meyer: Associate Professort at the University of Johannesburg and co-author of the Stellenbosch Business School SA Entrepreneurship Monitor Report
26 min - Coalition governments and media narrative
Guest: Lindiwe Zulu - Minister of Social Development of South Africa
7 min - The new rate of the national minimum wage has now been announced - it goes up by eight and a half percent from march - which means that a worker has to be paid R27.58 cents an hour - unless an employer asks the labour department for an exemption
Guest: Zwelinzima Vavi: SAFTU General Secretary
5 min - MACUA Denounces Government’s Prioritization of Wealthy Elites at Mining Indaba over attending and listening to Marginalized and Affected Communities
Guest: Phyllia Ngoatje, the head of paralegal unit at the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Advice Office.
6 min - Last year more coal travelled by road than ever before - a figure of 26 million tonnes - because Transnet can’t manage its railway systems.
Guest: Mzila Mthenjane - Minerals Council CEO
11 min - Professor Thuli Madonsela argues that overhauling existing immigration laws will require a careful balancing act
Guest: Thuli Madonsela: director of the Centre for Social Justice, law trust chair professor at Stellenbosch University and founder of the Thuma Foundation
8 min - There’s been a report that the retired former constitutional court judge Zac Yacoob is now back at constitution hill - and playing an advisory role at the court.
Guest: Lawson Naidoo: Executive Secretary, Council for the Advancement of the South Africa Constitution (CASAC)
4 min - Yesterday the Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla held a briefing on the shortage of doctors and promised that in various provinces they will advertise 375 medical officer vacancies over the next six months
Guest: Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo: Deputy Minister of Health
6 min
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