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The National Briefing
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The National Briefing episodes
- Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber named 21 players with Rugby World Cup experience (nine of whom will be appearing at their third Rugby World Cup)
Guest: Andy Capostagno, Reporter and Sports Commentator
6 min - Duma Gqubule an Independent Economist has now said that SA faces ‘the fierce urgency of now’
Guest: Duma Gqubule – Independent Economist
6 min - Africa Update Report with Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs
Afrika Update Report: 8 August 2023; 1. Niger-Nigeria, ECOWAS leaders will meet on Thurday to discuss Niger military coup after its deadline expired for coup plotters to reinstate the ousted President Bazoum; 2. Senegal-Dakar, Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been admitted to Dakar hospital after week on hunger strike ; 3. Ethiopia-Amhara, Ethiopian government accuses Amhara militia (Fano) of seeking to overthrow the regional and federal governments; 4. Zimbabwe -Harare, The road to Zimbabwe's tense general harmonised elections as the constitutional court will adjudicate Kasukuwere's appeal today; 5.In our historical archives, it was on this day 8 August 2006 when hundreds of women gathered in Mangaung to launch a new national women's movement called Progressive Women movement of South Africa.
5 min - The Campaign for Free Expression (CFE) is concerned about the secrecy surrounding the report into Russian vessel Lady R and they want President Cyril Ramaphosa to make the report public.
Guest: Professor Anton Harber, executive director of the Campaign for Free Expression
5 min - The Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga said that the taxi industry must condemn the violence - but then said the City of Cape Town was going outside the national land transport act in impounding public transport vehicles for breaking certain laws
Guest: Sindisiwe Chikunga, Minister of Transport
19 min - The Climate Justice Coalition has written an open letter to the Electricity Minister Kgosientso Ramakgopa - calling on him to not allow any more power to be generated from fossil fuels - or from nuclear
Guest: Dr Alex Lenferna - General Secretary: Climate Justice Coalition
6 min - The National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa has now said that businesses are suffering due to the Cape Town taxi strike
Guest: Rosheeda Muller, President of Nitasa (National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa
5 min - members of the Chinese coast guard fired a water cannon on the crew of a Philippines coastguard vessel - that was resupplying people living on a former warship on shoal in the south China sea
Guest: Cobus van Staden, senior researcher in our Foreign Policy Programme at South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)
9 min - Transgenerational impact of women in politics.
Guest: Amanda Gouws, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
8 min - In Cape Town, around 487-thousand children were not able to get to school yesterday due to the taxi strike
Guest: David Maynier, Western Cape Education MEC
3 min
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