The National Briefing

 

Guest: Ashley Benjamin – Deputy General Secretary: Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)

 

Guest: Bongani Gwexe - Supervisor at Statistics and Research department at the National Credit Regulator

 

Guest: Lesego Makhubela – ANC Gauteng Spokesperson

 

Guest: Visvin Reddy – Chairperson: People Against Petrol and Paraffin Price Increases (PAPPI)

 

Guest: Alex van den Heever – Professor of Social Systems: Wits University

 

Guest: Shafiq Morton - Journalist, broadcaster, author of several books, who has covered events in the region for many years

 

Afrika Update Report: 4 October 2023; 
1. Ethiopia-Addis Ababa, the annual joint consultative meeting between UN Security Council and AU Peace and Security Council begins tomorrow and what is the agenda? 
2. Senegal- Dakar, Lawyers of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko have launched a legal counter-offensive at the supreme court with two appeals; 
3. Liberia-Monrovia, As Liberia 2023 decides in five days, the Afrikan Union election observation mission (AUEOM) will be led by member of the AU panel of the wise and former deputy President of South Africa Mme Phumzile Mlambo-Nqcuka; 
4.Zimbabwe -Harare, The Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has warned CCC MPs for snubbing the State of the Nation addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 5 October 1946 when an Azanian poet, writer and political activist Mafika Pascal Gwala was born in Verulam, north of KwaZulu -Natal.

 

Guest: Justin Naylor, MD at iTOO Special Risk

 

Guest: Amanda Qithi, Eskom Gauteng Spokesperson

 

Clip: Kekeletso Khena - Chief Technology Officer: K-Squared Group

Advocate Brenda Madumise – Director: The Wise Collective

Marion Stevens - A policy analyst and academic completing her PhD in Political Science at Stellenbosch on the construction of sexual and reproductive health policy in SA. Founding and outgoing Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition Director.