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- Pholosong Hospital reported 118 patients in three months, after suicide attempts between the beginning of June and August 25. 46 of the 118 patients were under the age of 18.
Guest: Dr Nthabiseng Makgana - Pholosong Hospital CEO
6 min - The eThekwini Municipality has urged ratepayers' associations that are boycotting paying their rates to the municipality to work with it, as it doesn't want the matter to end in court.
Guest: Asad Gaff Westville Ratepayers' Association chairperson
6 min - The Road Traffic Infringement Agency appears to have lifted its enforcement block on people who have not paid all of their traffic fines
Guest: Advocate Stefanie Fick – Executive Director for the Accountability Division: Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa),
6 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs
Afrika Update Report : 29 August 2023; 1. 1.Gabon-Libreville, The opposition candidate Albert Ondo Ossa claims victory and renews call for Ali Bongo to concede defeat; 2.Zimbabwe-Harare, Zimbabwe's President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa criticises the role and mandate of election observers and opposition alleges blatant and gigantic fraud in electoral process; 3.Kenya-Nairobi, The longest nationwide power outage of Kenyans' memory remained a mystery Sunday as the government owned power company blamed a failure at Africa’s largest wind farm ; 4. Botswana-Gaborone, The Seventy-third session of the World health organization regional committee for Africa has begun in Gaborone yesterday until Friday and what is the agenda? 5.In our historical archives, it was on this day 29 August 1994 when South Africa signed the SADC treaty and agrees to the aims of SADC
8 min - In France, the country’s government has now decided to stop children in state schools from wearing full length robes known as the abaya.
Guest: Suleman Essop Dangor – Emeritus Professor: UKZN
6 min - Mediated Conversation: how important was the role that President Cyril Ramaphosa played at the BRICS Summit 2023?
Guest; Gustavo de Carvalho Senior Researcher on Russia-Africa ties at the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme at South African Institute of International Affairs
Guest: Prof. Siphamandla Zondi - Director of the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg
24 min - Not all mental health apps are helpful - experts explain the risks, and how to choose one wisely
Guest: Jeannie Marie Paterson - Professor of Law and co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne.
6 min - Minister for Human Settlements, Mmamoloko Kubayi, will launch a mega project under the One Month, One Building campaign which is aimed at delivering one development a month to contribute towards reversing the housing backlog in the city of Johannesburg.
Guest: Themba Mathibe - Joshco COO
6 min - The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has reiterated that the full recovery of commuter rail services nationally is a top priority.
Guest: Andiswa Makanda – PRASA Spokesperson
3 min - In Zimbabwe, the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change says it rejects the outcome of their elections - the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission says the ZANU PF president Emmerson Mnangagwa won 52.6% of the vote
Guest: Dr Kingsley Makhubela - Conflict Resolution Expert and RiskRecon Director
8 min
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