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The National Briefing
By SAfmGovernment
The National Briefing episodes
- The African National Congress (ANC) in Mpumalanga has confirmed the suspension of some of its members, including its provincial Treasurer Mandla Msibi
. Muzi Chirwa – @anc_mpumalanga Provincial Secretary
6 min - The new type of fraud that 80% of South Africans fall for - South Africans cannot tell the difference between a real image and an AI-generated one (deepfake).
Guest: Toby Shapshak: Tech Expert
6 min - Rise Mzansi Leader launches the party’s Manifesto ahead of the national elections.
Guest: Songezo Zibi: Rise Mzansi Leader
6 min - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially open the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir, a lavish temple built on the same site that analysts say is a monument to Hindu nationalist ambition.
Guest: Prof Alf Nilsen: Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria
5 min - More and more people have grown intolerant of politicians lies and games.
Guest: Siphamandla Zondi: Professor of Politics and International Relations University of Johannesburg And volunteers in the Devoted Citizen NGO
10 min - load-shedding stage 16 - Stage 16 schedules shall consist of all 16 blocks off simultaneously.
Guest: Vally Padayachee - Power and Energy Expert
10 min - #MatricResults: are our teachers doing better than they used to
Guest: Prof Chika Sehoole: Professor of Higher Education and Dean in the faculty of Education, University of Pretoria
4 min - Last night, the Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said that 82.9% of those who wrote the matric exams passed - that’s the highest ever when expressed as a percentage.
Guest: Brahm Fleisch: Education Expert & Professor of Education, Wits
4 min - New amendment to the Medicines and Related Substances Act, would allow for cannabis plant material and products containing THC to be used for private consumer purposes without being regulated as a Schedule 6 substance.
Guest: Gabriel Theron -CEO of Cilo Cybin
5 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
18 January 2024:
- Sierra Leone- Freetown, A Sierra Leone high court has allowed former President Ernest Bai Koroma to travel abroad on medical grounds;
- DR Congo-Kinshasha, Police in DRC dispersed a small protest by Movement for the Liberation of the Congo against the provisional results of the December legislative elections;
- Ethiopia-Kampala, the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declines to attend the extraordinary summit of IGAD today;
- Zambia- Lusaka, Zambian health ministry has begun vaccination against Cholera after 363 recorded deaths;
- In our historical archives, it was on this day 18 January 2020 when the South African first black world champion boxer Peter "Terror" Mathebula died in Leratong hospital (Gauteng).
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