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- The DA says it’s going to go to court to challenge the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to grant a remission of sentence to nine and a half thousand prisoners - who were regarded as elderly or vulnerable.
Guest: Adv. Ben Winks - independent advocate specialising in constitutional and international law
4 min - The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has committed to closing all derelict open shafts and mine holes in Riverlea by the end of September 2023, while finalising plans to do the same across the country.
Guest: Makhosonke Buthelezi, Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Head Of Communications
5 min - In the US, a new variant of the covid virus is now circulating very quickly around the country - it’s called e.g-5 or Eris - and it appears to be able to transmit itself very quickly and easily
Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim – CAPRISA Director
6 min - The Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordfhan formally gave Eskom’s board permission to go ahead and start a new Eskom transmission company - in other words to formally break up Eskom’s generation business from its transmission business
Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli - Head of the Energy Secretariat: South African National Energy Development Institute
8 min - The DA in Gauteng held its provincial congress over the weekend - with Solly Msimanga defeating a challenge by Khume Ramelifho - which means that he was re-elected leader of the DA in Gauteng
Guest: Solly Msimanga – Newly Elected DA Gauteng Leader
6 min - A new report by the Centre of Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg shows withdrawal of ZEP is discriminatory and inhumane
Guest: Dr Trevor Ngwane – Director: Centre of Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg
5 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs
Afrika Update Report: 14 August 2023; 1. Niger- Nigeria, Niger military coup leaders agrees to hold direct talks with ECOWAS after Nigerian Islamic Scholars intervene; 2. 1.Gabon-Libreville, Supporters of Gabonese President Ali Bongo believe that their candidate "is the choice of reason" as he launched his election campaign; 3.Zimbabwe- Kenya, Kenya's former cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed will led the Commonwealth observer mission for the upcoming Zimbabwean elections ; 4. Angola- Luanda, The 43rd SADC summit pre -meetings are underway in Launda under the theme "Human and Financial Capital: The Key Drivers for Sustainable Industrialisation in the SADC region" ; 5. In our historical archives , it was on this day 14 August 1968 when more than 200 students at the University of Cape Town embarked on a sit in "to protest against government intervention to rescind on its appointment of Archie Mafeje (A Pan Afrikan academic) as senior lecturer in the department of African studies.
4 min - In the US island state of Hawaii 89 people have now died from wildfires on the island of Maui - making them the worst fires in the US for over one hundred years
Guest: Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi, Honorary Research Fellow based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences
6 min - 27 min
- Gauteng Department of Health yesterday reopened the Accident & Emergency Unit at Jubilee District Hospital. The unit recently underwent major refurbishment where the resuscitation and triage areas have been expanded
Guest: Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko - bGauteng MEC of Health
9 min
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