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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- Labour federation Cosatu is the latest organisation to launch an attack on City of Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink, calling for his resignation.
Guest: Amos Monyela - COSATU Gauteng Provincial Chair
6 min - Africa Update Report with Faith Mabera - Senior Researcher Institute for Global Dialogue
Afrika Update Report: 12 October 2023;
1. League of Arab States holds extraordinary meeting in Cairo to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas
2. World Bank and IMF hold annual meeting in Marrakech, Morocco (09-15 October).
3. UN sets up fact-finding mission to investigate human rights abuses in Sudan
4 min - Israel-Gaza conflict: how could it change the Middle East’s political landscape and what does it mean for international relations?
Guest: Prof John Stremlau - Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
6 min - The SA post office has told parliament that it has made huge losses over the last few years - that it has liabilities of over nine billion rand - and that its own employees have been accused of stealing from the entity.
Guest: Dr Bonke Dumisa, Independent Economic Analyst
5 min - Mediated Conversation: what is the current state of the SA National Defence Force?
Guy Martin, Editor of DefenceWeb
Adv Pikkie Greef - National Secretary: SA National Defence Union
Dr. Kingsley Makhubela - Conflict Resolution Expert and RiskRecon Director
26 min - South Africans who can’t afford to go full solar to escape load shedding are turning to easier solutions like inverters and battery backups – but researchers say that these systems are basically undoing any ‘good’ that load shedding is trying to achieve.
Guest: Thinus Booysen - Professor in the faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University
6 min - Politicians might have dropped the ball after failing to amend South Africa’s anti-doping code in Parliament in time to comply with a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) deadline, but the Springboks will do what they do best and focus on winning.
Guest: Craig Ray – Daily Maverick sports editor
6 min - Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts to give SAPS Brigadier Jap Burger a third chance to appear voluntarily to provide evidence on De Ruyter intelligence reports.
Guest: Mkhuleko Hlengwa – Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) Chair
7 min - In the middle-east Israel has now hit at least 70 targets in Gaza - while the Israeli defence minister has told his soldiers - that they have been released from all restraints in their war against Hamas.
Guest: Mia Swart - visiting professor at Wits Law School specialising in human rights, international relations and international law.
7 min - There are growing calls from business and workers who want the UIF to be placed under administration
Guest: Teboho Maruping - Unemployment Insurance Fund Commissioner
9 min
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