The National Briefing

Guest: Mdu Nkosi: Chief Whip of the IFP in KZN

Guest: Kingsley Wakelin: City of Tshwane MMC for Corporate and Shared Services

Guest: Jo-Anne Otto: Cape Winelands District Municipality spokesperson

Guest: Brian Mofokeng: SABC Commentator

Guest: Matthew Parks: Cosatu Spokesperson

Guest: Bruce Watson - AI Expert, Stellenbosch University

Guest: Nomshado Lubisi-Nkosinkulu: Media Monitoring Africa Communications Manager

Guest: Crispin Hemson - Director for Centre of Nonviolence at Durban University of Technology

Guest: Prof David Mosoma - CRL Right Commission Chair

Guest: Sifiso Shangase: South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) KZN spokesperson

31 January 2024:

1. Sudan -Darfur , The International Criminal Court prosecutor Karim Khan assert that there are grounds to believe both Sudan's armed forces and paramilitary rivals are committing atrocities in the Darfur region;

1. Senegal-Dakar, Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko chooses Bassirou Diomaye Faye as replacement in Senegal's presidential race;

1. Ethiopia- ECOWAS, The Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat urges dialogue between ECOWAS and Junta-led states;

1. Haiti - Port-au-Prince, A Haitian judge Walther Voltaire investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise has issued an arrest warrant for his wife, Martine Moise;

1. In our historical archives, it was on this day 31 January 1985 when Apartheid State President P.W Botha offered Tata Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela conditional release from Prison.

Guest: Richard J. Goldstone: former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa