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The National Briefing
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- Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will this afternoon outline his plans to manage government spending - as government is spending more money that it is getting in as tax revenue.
Guest: Neva Makgetla - Senior Economist at Trade and Industrial Policy Studies
6 min - Yesterday WaterCANsa and the Joburg Water Crisis committee protested in Brixton outside a council meeting demanding water in their taps in Johannesburg. Some areas have been without water for over 50 days
Guest: Wayne Duvenage – Director of Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, he was at the protest
3 min - The Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has now formally taken UNISA into administration and appointed Professor Ihron Rensburg as the administrators of the university for two years
Guest: Ishmael Mnisi – Department of Higher Education and Training Spokesperson
6 min - In Gaza, it appears a large number of Palestinians have been killed in a huge Israeli airstrike on a target that appears to have been underneath or within the Jabalya refugee camp
Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist at University of Pretoria
6 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula - from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA
01 November 2023: 1. Germany-Tanzania, Germany will open talks with Tanzania about the legacy of its three decades of colonial rule in the East African nation;
2.USA-Gabon, Niger, Uganda and Central African Republic, US President Joe Biden has stated his intention to halt the participation of Gabon, Niger, Uganda and C.A.R in the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade program;
3. Mali- Bamako, United Nations peacekeepers ordered to leave Mali by the country's leaders have been forced to rush their withdrawal, destroy equipment left behind and risk their lives on the road out;
4.The Gambia- Banjul, The Gambia's high court has sentenced Sanna Fadera who was the military ringleader of the foiled coup of 2022 against President Adama Barrow to twelve years (12) in prison;
5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 1 November 1974 when the then QwaQwa homeland received self -government status from the then Apartheid central government and was led by the late Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli until 1994.5 min - The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has applied to join a case before the Constitutional Court of Uganda challenging the “Anti-Homosexuality” Act
Guest: Basetsana Koitsioe - Gender Justice Attorney at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies
5 min - Tomorrow the Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will deliver his medium term budget policy statement - and he is expected to announce some cutbacks on government spending
Guest: Matshidiso Lencoasa - budget researcher at SECTION27 and steering committee member of the Budget Justice Committee
6 min - There are now concerns that most of the toilets in RR Section informal settlement in Khayelitsha have not been cleaned since 27 September after extortionists held Sanitech workers at gunpoint.
Guest: Zahid Badroodien - MMC for Community Services and Health: City of Cape Town
4 min - In the Western Cape, police fail to solve sixty percent of the crimes committed
Guest: Dr Guy Lamb - Crime Expert: Stellenbosch University
5 min - The Westville Ratepayers Association members said they would not pay their bills because that would be enabling corruption - because the city was being run in a corrupt way.
Guest: Asad Gaffar – Chair: Westville Ratepayers Association
4 min
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