The National Briefing

 

 

Guest: Prof Shaun Pather, Chairperson of the Zenzeleni NPC board

 

 

Guest: Bongani Baloyi, Xiluva Party leader

This week, a white substitute teacher from Crawford International in Tshwane wrote racist terms on a blackboard - and then telling children that they were not affected by apartheid

Guest: Asanda Ngoasheng, diversity trainer

 

Guest: Dr. Catherine Egbe, Specialist Scientist in the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Unit of the South African Medical Research Council

new data from Municipal IQ which suggests that we may end up having more service delivery protests this year than any other year Protests continue, erupting sporadically, unpredictably, and violently across the country.

Guest: Kevin Allan, MD: Municipal IQ

There was an important development in Joburg yesterday involving illegal mining in Roodepoort. A massive sinkhole emerged on Miles Stoke road - as a result the Joburg roads agency had to close most of the road

Guest: Zweli Nyathi, Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) acting CEO

There’s been confirmation this week that the company Steinhoff investment holdings is finally going to be closed and liquidated and shut down - five and a half years after that massive accounting scandal involving Markus Jooste came to light.

Guest: Khaya Sithole, accountant and analyst

 

Afrika Update Report: 28 July 2023; 1. Niger - Niamey, the situation in Niger remains "fluid" as army backs coup plotters but who is General Omar Tchiani -the suspected brain behind the coup? 2. Ethiopia-Tigray, Over 50, 000 former combatants of the Tigray region military have been demilitarized in intial phase as part of Tshwane peace agreement ; 3. Rwanda-Belgium,  Rwandan government regrets refusal to approve its Ambassador  to Belgium and its negative impact for bilateral relations ;4. Uganda- St Petersburg, Why President Yoweri Museveni took his first son General Muhoozi Kainerugaba with him to St Petersburg to attend second Africa -Russia summit?; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 28 July 1960 when UN Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold arrived in the DR Congo to try to end the civil war.

There was dramatic testimony in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial yesterday - it came from a police officer colonel Lambertus Steyn who is an expert in cell phone evidence.

Guest: Melusi Xulu, Managing Director of Donda Attorneys