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The National Briefing
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- Forests have potential to store more carbon, but emissions must be cut
Guest: Dr Gabi Kietzka - Entomologist at the Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University
4 min - Icasa has warned that using or providing access to SpaceX’s Starlink services in South Africa is illegal.
Guest: Jan Vermeulen – Editor: MyBroadband
8 min - The Road Accident Fund says it has stopped fraudulent claims worth over 2.6 billion in three years and The Auditor General has said that the Road Accident Fund is not using the proper accounting standard
Guest: Mcintosh Polela – Road Accident Fund Spokesperson
13 min - Impala platinum is now restarting operations after the awful accident this week that saw twelve miners being killed - when the lift cage they were in fell a hundred and sixty meters to the ground.
Guest: Johan Theron - Group Executive: Corporate Affairs at Implats
6 min - Dr Sizeka MaweyaYesterday, City Power said it was giving the Gauteng Health Department four hours to remove patients from the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital - before it switched off power to the hospital
Guest: Isaac Mangena – City Power Spokesperson
Guest: Dr Sizeka Maweya - Acting Chairperson of SA Medical Association
9 min - President Ramaphosa is at the cop 28 climate summit in Dubai - where seventy thousand delegates are currently meeting. The main issue is whether countries can agree to phase us the use of fossil fuels
Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist: University of Pretoria
7 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
Afrika Update Report:
29 November 2023:
1. Madagascar- Antananarivo, Two Madagascan army colonels have been charged and detained on suspicion of attempting to destabilise power;
2. Togo-Lome, Togo's opposition coalition alerts about Constitutional vacuum and calls for talks with government ahead of legislative and regional elections in 2024;
3. Kenya-Netherlands, the International Criminal Court deputy chief prosecutor Nazhat Shameen pronounced that she is ending 13-year legal saga which involved senior Kenyan politicians;
4. South Africa-Liberia, University of South Africa-UNISA, host intellectual founders 20th lecture to be delivered by Nobel Laureate Her Excellency President Dr Ellen Johnson Sirleaf tonight in Tshwane;
5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 29 November 1991 when delegates from twenty groups agreed after preparatory talks on a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa’s future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA).5 min - As December has finally arrived and people head to the cost for the holidays - it’s not entirely clear if the beaches in Durban are actually safe
Guest: Janet Simpkins, founder and director of Adopt-A-River
Guest: Desmond D'sa - co-ordinator of the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA)
9 min - Mediated Conversation: Science of HIV & AIDS
Dr Disebo Potloane – Site Director of the CAPRISA Vulindlela Clinical Research Site (VCRS).
Dr Sharana Mahomed - medical doctor, trained as a specialist pathologist in clinical microbiology
Mr Patrick Mdletshe - Deputy General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
24 min - Civil society organisations call on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to urgently fulfil the legal obligations set out in the Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure, which she signed into law 10 YEARS AGO! #FixOurSchools.
Noncedo Madubedube - Equal Education's General Secretary
6 min
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