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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs
Afrika Update Report: 25 August 2023; 1. Gabon- Libreville, As Gabon decides tomorrow , what are the four things to know before presidential elections where president Ali Bongo Ondimba is seeking a third presidential term; 2. Zimbabwe -Harare, As Zimbabwe is counting and collating elections results, arrest and raid were conducted against 39 members of the Zimbabwe election support Network and election resource centre ; 3. BRICS +Plus-Ethiopia, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says their admission as the new member of BRICS +plus countries is an important moment for Ethiopia and they stand ready to cooperate; 4. Sudan- Khartoum,Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was seen yesterday outside his headquarters for the first time since fighting erupted more than four months; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 25 August 1980 when Zimbabwe became a member of the UN after independence.
6 min - will the BRICS expansion change the way we trade - is this going to lead to more economic cooperation with these countries?
Guest: Dr Lumkile Mondi - Senior Lecturer at the School of Economics and Business Science: Wits University
8 min - how important China is to BRICS and how important is BRICS to China?
Guest: Prof Martin Jacques -Author, When China Rules the World; former Senior Fellow, Cambridge University; visiting professor, Tsinghua University.
8 min - In Japan, officials have started to release water that was used in the Fukushima nuclear reactor into the ocean - which has led China and other countries to ban the import of fish caught around Japan into their countries
Guest: Dave Nicholls - Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA
5 min - South Africa’s agriculture is export-orientated. The focus should be on maintaining smooth relations with critical export markets while searching for new markets, says Wandile Sihlobo
Guest: Wandile Sihlobo - Chairperson of the BRICS Agri Business Working Group and Author “A country of two Agricultures”
10 min - Chaos yesterday during the City of Cape Town Council Chamber debate about the minibus taxi strike. EFF members were removed from the Chamber
Guest: Ntsikelelo Tyandela – EFF Cape Metro Regional Chair
6 min - Mediated Conversation: Cable repair ship to fix South Africa’s broken Internet lands in Cape Town. How important is internet?
Jan Vermeulen – Editor of MyBroadband
Brendon Peterson - Consultant and Editor of Reframed.co
Arthur Goldstuck – CEO: World Wide Worx
23 min - Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on the moon in 'victory cry of a new India', just days after a similar Russian lander crashed.
Guest: Eugene Avenant, Chief Engineer at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA) Space Operations
5 min - The President of the Republic of South Africa and Chair of BRICS, His Excellency Cyril Ramaphosa will announce the outcomes of the XV BRICS Summit
Guest: Mzwandile Mbeje – SABC Politics Editor
5 min - Mining mogul Patrice Motsepe has called on African nations to consider the implementation of preferential visas for entrepreneurs. Small Business Development Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams is in support of a BRICS visa
Guest: Tebogo Khaas – founder of the SMME Forum.
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