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- There was an announcement yesterday that the media mogul Rupert Murdoch who controls hundreds of newspapers - television channels and online outlets is stepping down as the chair of the company Fox.
Guest: William Bird - Director at Media Monitoring Africa
6 min - The Springboks team to face Ireland in Paris on Saturday in the France Rugby World Cup 2023
Guest: Naas Botha – Former Rugby Player
13 min - Last week, four of the Postbank’s seven board members resigned - they said in a letter that they had been treated in a hostile way by the Minister of Communications - Mondli Gungubele.
Guest: Martin Mahosi – Former Board Member of Postbank Board
17 min - In Iran, the country’s parliament has now passed a bill that would see women being sent to jail for up to ten years - if they do not cover them hear and wear a hijab correctly when in public.
Guest: Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman – Post-Doctoral research fellow for the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and programme director at the Centre for Mediation in Africa.
9 min - A Councillor has been shot and killed in KwaZulu-Natal. The shooting took place in the Umlazi B section. It's believed the councillor was travelling with two others when they were ambushed.
Guest: Bheki Mtolo – ANC KZN Secretary
10 min - The Western Cape Government yesterday called on law enforcement services to respond decisively to the torching of the Swellendam Thusong Centre and a firefighting vehicle and to apprehend those behind these actions.
Guest: Anton Bredell, Western Cape Minister of Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning
5 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs: Unisa
Afrika Update Report: 21 September 2023; 1. Nigeria- UNGA78, in his inaugural speech at the UN General Assembly 78, Nigeria's President Bola has emphasised the need for Afrika to overcome the constraints of foreign exploitation and unlock its vast potential;
2. Gabon-Libreville, Ali Bongo Ondimba 's son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and several members of the deposed Gabonese President's cabinet were jailed and charged with "high treason and active corruption"; 3. Rwanda -Kigali, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has announced for the first time that he plans to run for a fourth term in 2024; 4 Namibia-Windhoek, The Namibian general statistician Alex Shimuafeni has urged Namibians to avoid being counted twice in the upcoming census that began this a week;
5. In our historical archives this, it was on this day 21 September 1981 when the International Day of Peace was established by resolution 36/67 of the UN General Assembly.5 min - In Tsakane, Ekurhuleni (Gauteng) local residents say they have not had water for nearly two months - as a result they are literally taking water from a brick factory - and trying to live on that
Guest: Isaac Ncengwa - Community Activist: Tsakane
Guest: Alderman Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, MMC for Corporate and Shared Services and Service Delivery Coordination, City of Ekurhuleni
11 min - There are now predictions that South Africa’s power crisis will continue until 2025 - and blackouts will take 5 years to phase out
Guest: Hartmut Winkler - Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
6 min - The Reserve Bank is due to announce today whether it will raise or hold interest rates - after figures yesterday show that the price you are paying for food is still going up by around ten percent year on year.
Guest: Dr Azar Jammine - Director and Chief Economist, Econometrix (Pty) Limited
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