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The National Briefing episodes
- Mediated Conversation: is there such a thing as South African spoken English - that is distinct from the English spoken in other languages?
Professor Thabo Ditsele: Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Anthropology and an NRF-rated researcher at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria.
Guest: Ayanda Sishi-Wigzell: social & political commentator & a freelance journalist.
Guest: Professor Michael Titlestad: Department of English, Wits
26 min - Cogta KZN is in talks with national government to declare the province a disaster as damaging storms have persisted since December.
Guest: Siboniso Mngadi - KZN Cogta Spokesperson
5 min - The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) has achieved an overall pass rate of 98.46% in the 2023 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. The pass rate is slightly higher than the 2022 NSC pass rate of 98.42%.
Guest: Lebogang Montjane: Executive Director, Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa
5 min - There was more flooding in KZN yesterday, the KZN Education Department asked schools to close early - to get children home safely in time.
Guest: Nomarashiya Caluza, Provincial Secretary SADTU KZN
5 min - In the Western Cape Provincial Legislature, the DA appears to be still be pressing ahead with the Western Cape powers bill - which would see the province gaining more powers from national government
Guest: Isaac Sileku: DA Western Cape Spokesperson on Western Cape Provincial Powers Bill
5 min - The ANC in the Western Cape says that the Powers Bill goes against SA's constitution.
Guest: Muhammad Khalid Sayed - ANC Provincial Spokesperson (Western Cape)
5 min - The KwaZulu-Natal government says it is in talk with national government to declare the province a disaster area following damaging storms since December.
Guest: Prof. Christo Coetzee from the Northwest University, African Centre for Disaster Studies
6 min - Postbank has assured social grant beneficiaries that their SASSA gold cards that have expired still work throughout 2024.
Guest: Dr. Bongani Diako: Postbank Spokesperson
6 min - According to a report by Oxfam, South Africa is still the most unequal country in the world
Guest: Patrick Bond: Professor at the University of Johannesburg Department of Sociology, and co-editor of BRICS and Resistance in Africa
8 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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