The Briefing Debate: Will NHI work for South Africans?

Guest: Dr Katlego Mothudi, Managing Director of the Board of Healthcare Funders 

In a media briefing, Gauteng Premier said that suspects linked to the case of Mazwi Kubheka includes both South African and foreign nationals, including individuals of Ethiopian origin.

Guest: Panyaza Lesufi - Gauteng Premier

There’s relief in Vosloorus (Ekurhuleni), as missing spaza shop owner Mazwi Kubheka has returned home safely after a month-long disappearance. Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi says suspects linked to the case include both South African and foreign nationals

Guest: Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi - Gauteng SAPS Spokesperson 

Built in Mzansi - Who is Kasi Convocation?

Guest: Joankie Makwakwa - CEO and Founder of Kasi Convocation 

A security breach inside South Africa’s military is raising urgent questions about how well some of the country’s most sensitive sites are protected. The South African National Defence Force has confirmed that assault rifles and a grenade launcher were stolen during a break-in at Tek Base in Lyttelton.

Guest:  Dakota Legoete - Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans

There’s relief in Vosloorus (Ekurhuleni), as missing spaza shop owner Mazwi Kubheka has returned home safely after a month-long disappearance. How the family has navigated this month-long ordeal?

Deli Mofokeng

Off the coast of Yemen, an oil tanker has been hijacked by armed attackers who have steered the ship from the Gulf of Aden toward Somali waters.

President Donald Trump has signed sweeping new sanctions targeting key sectors of the Cuban economy: energy, finance and security.

China has rejected fresh U.S. sanctions linked to Iran’s oil trade, calling them illegal and ordering its companies not to comply

Guest: Sandile Mnguni - Lecturer in Political Science and International Relations within the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal  

Africa in Focus with Advocate Sipho Mantula, Researcher: Thabo Mbeki African School of Public & International Affairs: Unisa

4 May 2026 

Afrika Month edition  

1. Namibia – International Monetary Fund  

Namibia Clippings Afrika’s Top 10 List with Zero IMF Debt After Full Repayment 

While other nations drown in IMF austerity, Namibia walked out. No more structural adjustment. No more neoliberal lectures. No more foreign control over economic policy.  

Question for us this morning on Afrika in Focus: Which Afrikan country should be next to say goodbye to the IMF?   

Namibia has officially cleared all its outstanding debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), reducing its balance to zero and marking a significant milestone in the country’s financial position. 

The development reflects a broader government effort to strengthen fiscal discipline and reduce reliance on external borrowing. According to the latest data available as of March this year, Namibia settled a total of $23,887,500 owed to the IMF. 

 

1. South Afrika – Pan-African Parliament – African Union  

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, welcomes the successful conclusion of the elections of the President and Members of the Bureau of the Pan-African Parliament, held in Midrand, Republic of South Africa. 

He extends warm congratulations to H.E. Fateh Boutbig from Algeria on his election as President, as well as to the newly elected Members of the Bureau representing all regions of the continent. 

  

1. DR Kongo – United States of America (USA) 

Former Congolese leader Joseph Kabila has dismissed newly imposed US sanctions against him as "unjustified and politically motivated." 

Democratic Republic of Congo ex-president Joseph Kabila condemned a US decision to sanction him for allegedly aiding Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who have seized swathes of the east of his country. 

The government in Kinshasa said it welcomed the sanctions as "an important step in the fight against impunity". 

  

1. In our historical archives, it was on 4 May 1960, when Professor Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of the Sharpeville-Langa Massacre. 

Sobukwe led a peaceful Black march to the Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took place in Sharpeville, to hand over their passes to police officers, thereby deliberately courting arrest. 

The Reality Check: how the failure to resolve the National Question is at the heart of some of the most intractable problems we face in South Africa.

Guest: Prof Tshepo Madlingozi - Adjunct Professor at Nelson Mandela University, Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University and a Commissioner at the SAHRC responsible for Anti-Racism, Education and Equality