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The National Briefing
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- Rand Water and Joburg Water have been asking people to use less water - and claiming that some of their reservoirS are running out of water. This has led to problems at least two hospitals in Joburg.
Guest: Mike Muller - professional engineer and visiting adjunct professor at the Wits School of Governance
9 min - The South African Human Rights Commission has condemned KwaZulu-Natal municipalities and water service authorities (WSAs) for violating the rights of citizens to access sufficient clean water.
Guest: Pavershree Padayachee – SA Human Rights acting provincial manager in KZN
8 min - Mediated Conversation: Ramaphosa warned about big VAT increase to fund grants. what happens if you increase tax? What the impact would be?
Prof Keith Engel – Chief Executive Officer, The South African Institute of Taxation
Duma Gqubule - Independent Economist
Lumkile Mondi - senior lecturer at the School of Economics and Business Science of the University of the Witwatersrand
21 min - Up to 35,000 coal mining jobs could be on the line due to export constraints on the coal corridor as a result of Transnet weaknesses.
Guest: Thapelo Malekutu - National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) highveld region deputy secretary
5 min - Doctors trained abroad will soon write the medical board exams allowing them to practise medicine in South Africa
Guest: Dr Magome Masike, Health Professions Council of South Africa Registrar
6 min - President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with the UN secretary general Antonio Gutierrez in New York as part of the united nations general assembly
Guest: Sophie Mokoena – SABC News International Editor
8 min - The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) call on Rand Water to desist its disruptive operations in the supply of water to parts of Ekurhuleni Municipality, under the competent and capable leadership of EFF public representatives in the People’s Government.
Guest: Leshaka Manamela, MMC for Energy, Water and Sanitation in the City of Ekurhuleni.
6 min - Stellenbosch University-led international consortium receives R101 million EU grant for epidemic research
Guest: Prof Tulio de Oliveira, a world-renowned bioinformatician and director of Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI).
6 min - Iran has now released five Americans who hold Iranian passports - after the US allowed around six billion dollars which was held in South Korea to be transferred to Iran.
Guest: John Stremlau. Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
5 min - Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan published a draft new law
Guest: Prof Peter Gross - Public Enterprise Minister
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan published a draft new law that would take state owned entities like Transet or Danel - and put them into a holding company would be owned entirely by the state
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