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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- The Western Cape government has approached the National Disaster Management Centre to declare a provincial disaster as several wildfires rage across the province.
Guest: Colin Deiner: Western Cape Disaster Management Chief Director
4 min - The Eastern Cape Social Development MEC, Bukiwe Fanta has now revealed that close to half a million people in the Eastern Cape ran out of money to buy food last year
Guest: Mzukisi Solani: Eastern Cape Social Development head of Communications
7 min - Mediated Conversation: should Mandela’s items be auctioned?
Guest: Ben Mwasinga, Senior Manager for Heritage Conservation Management at the South African Heritage Resources Agency
Guest: Dr Jane Mufamadi - CEO Freedom Park
Guest: Dr Ali Hlongwane- Researcher: History Workshop at Wits University
25 min - South Africa’s early-stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) has declined to below pre-pandemic levels, and regarding entrepreneurial intentions, fewer people than ever before are considering starting new businesses.
Guest: Prof Natanya Meyer: Co-author of the Stellenbosch Business School SA Entrepreneurship Monitor Report
4 min - Zero Carbon Charge has made its submission to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy on the draft Integrated Resource Plan. It argues that Government has underestimated the strain that EVs will place on the Eskom grid.
Guest: Andries Malherbe: Co-Founder and Director of Zero Carbon Charge.
5 min - Overnight, our envoy to the United Nations Mathu Joyini has told the united nations that our government believes Israel is not complying with the order of the International Court of Justice - that it must protect civilians in Gaza.
Guest: Obed Bapela: ANC NEC Member for International Relations
Guest: John Stremlau, Honorary Professor of International Relations Wits University
15 min - African Transformation Movement has written to the Minister of Higher Education to address the systematic discrimination against black South African academics in the Higher Education sector.
Guest: Vuyo Zungula: African Transformation Movement President5 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
01 February 2024:
1. Algeria- Middle East, Algeria held a UN Security Council briefing session on the ruling by the ICJ issuing provisional measures on Israel's war in Gaza.
2. Liberia -Monrovia, President Joseph Boakai questions government bank balance record of President George Weah’s administration;
3. Somalia-Mogadishu, Somalia's intelligence (NISA) agency has blocked and shut down 20 Whatsapp groups used by al-Qaida linked militants;
4. Angola - SADC, The Southern African development community will hold a virtual extraordinary summit of heads of states and government tomorrow to address the cholera situation in the region;
5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 1 February 1974 when black consciousness leader and Mwalimu Onkgopotse Ramothibi Tiro was assassinated with a parcel bomb in Botswana.5 min - International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor says that Israel is refusing to comply with the order of the International Court of Justice as it continues its attacks on Gaza
Guest: Steven Gruzd, head of the Africa-Russia Project at the South African Institute of International Affairs
6 min - SAMWU are appalled by the way the City of Cape Town has dealt with its LEAP officers after they dismissed over hundred Law Enforcement Officers
Guest: Hlalanathi Gagayi - Organiser assigned at the Cape Town Metro SAMWU Region8 min
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