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- Independent NGO Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) has published a follow-up to its 2022 review of Parliament’s actions in response to the multi-part final report of the Zondo commission into state capture. PMG says that there is still a paucity of Parl
Guest: Janine Erasmus, Content editor at Corruption Watch
4 min - Energy Minister Gwede Mantshe says that we can learn from Russia if we want to extend the life of our coal fired power stations - he says their technology is stronger than anywhere else in the world
Guest: Hartmut Winkler – Professor of Physics: University of Johannesburg
6 min - how interested is CNN in the BRICS Summit - how much attention are they giving it?
Guest: David McKenzie - award-winning Senior International Correspondent for CNN based in Johannesburg
7 min - The Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended Zimbabwe’s election by another day after experiencing problems in some voting stations
Guest: Luke Mufaro Dzviti - Chair of Zimbabwe Immigration Federation
6 min - Civil Society Organisations embarked in a protest march against BRICS especially China who they say continues to pursue for fossil fuel extractions in Africa especially the Chinese backed project Musina-Makhado SEZ
Guest: Kholwani Simelane Advocacy Officer at The Green Connection
4 min - Mediated Conversation: A law trying to prevent bullies suggests that children as young as 10 may be arrested for their actions.
Elijah Mhlanga – Department of Basic Education Spokesperson
Dr. Shaheda Omar – Director of the Teddy Bear Foundation
Nicki Dawson – Counselling Psychologist
22 min - Cable repair ship to fix South Africa’s broken Internet lands in Cape Town
Guest: Jan Vermeulen – Editor at MyBroadband
7 min - In Zimbabwe, voters will cast their ballots today, will they have free and fair elections?
Guest: Dr William Mpofu - researcher at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, and senior research associate at Good Governance Africa (GGA), SADC region
8 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs
Afrika Update Report : 23 August 2023 ; 1. Zimbabwe -Harare , Zimbabwe decides today and what we need to know about the ninth (9th) harmonised elections since liberated from Britain in April 1980; 2. Ethiopia-Niger, The African Union has suspended Niger from the continental bloc with immediate effect; 3. Nigeria-Abuja, Nigeria's new leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu has inaugurated his cabinet to tackle economic and security woes; 4. Somalia-Mogadishu, The Somali government has offered amnesty to Al-Shabab militants amidst an ongoing military offensive in central parts of the country; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 23 August 1894 when political activist, trade unionists and father of Alex La Guma, James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma was born in Free State.
6 min - A housing project worth over R134 million in oThongathi, KwaZulu-Natal, that was meant to build 248 houses for local residents has only produced 11 'unfinished' units in a space of six years.
Guest: Sipho KK Nkosi, KZN Human Settlements MEC
7 min
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