The National Briefing

Guest: Charles Helm - Research Associate, African Centre for Coastal Palaeoscience, Nelson Mandela University

Guest: Fatima Hassan – Founder: Health Justice Initiative

Guest: Asanda Ngoasheng - Political Analyst, Diversity Trainer

Guest: Velenkosi Hlabisa - IFP President

Guest: Advocate Moyahabo Sebjeni – from ES Kgaka Attorneys INC.

Guest: Tembisa Fakude - senior research fellow Africa Asia Dialogues

Afrika Update Report: 18 August 2023; 1. Niger-Ghana, ECOWAS Defence chiefs meeting in Accra insisted that they are ready to send troops to Niger should negotiations fail ; 2. Senegal-Dakar, Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been removed from the country's electoral roll; 3. Zimbabwe-Harare, Opposition MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora says elections are already a sham and all opposition parties contesting are exercising foolish bravery ;4. Tanzania-Rwanda-South Afrika, Two South Afrikan  multi-award winning rappers Cassper Nyovest and Nasty C to perform in Tanzania today and Rwanda next month; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 18 August 1939 when South Afrikan composer, musician and Pan Afrikanist elder Ntate Katse Caiphus  Semenya was born in Alexandra, Gauteng.

 
Guest: Ras Tshimane Pablo Mogotsi - IKS Adhoc Lecturer and Post Graduate Scholar the North West University, Rastafari Media practitioner, Rastafarian, Also a local Cultural and Historical Tourist Guide

Guest: Corne van Walbeek - Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town

Guest: Nico Smit – Motoring Expert

Guest: Vhatuka Mbelengwa - National E-hailing Spokesperson

Guest: Sahil Datta – Director Bajaj South Africa

Guest: George Mienie - Auto Trader CEO