The National Briefing

Informal traders are calling for a 60-day extension to the 4 August deadline for public submissions on the Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill, arguing that the short time allocated will prejudice the rights of informal traders, and Government is simply trying to railroad legislation through Parliament.

 

Guest: Rosheda Muller, President of the National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa (NITASA)

 

 

Guest: Cecilia Molokwane, Netball SA President

 

 

Guest: Cobus Van Staden, Senior China-Africa researcher at South African Institute of International Affairs.

Mediated Conversation: Last week Transnet announced that it has decided to partner with the Philippines based company - International Container Terminal services incorporated - in a 25-year deal that will see this company playing a large role in the running of pier two in the Durban harbour.

 

Guest: MJ Schoemaker, president of Sapics, The Professional Body for Supply Chain Management in Southern Africa

 

Guest: Jack Mazibuko, Satawu General Secretary

 

Guest: Jabu Mdaki, Chief Executive of Transnet Port Terminals

 

 

 

Guest: Dr Graeme Hoddinott, Social Science Lead at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre and the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University

 

 

Guest: Siphumelele Zondi, SABC senior producer and presenter

 

Guest: Masego Sheburi, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) Deputy CEO

SAMA submitted a petition with over 50 000 signatures to the Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces requesting that members of the NCOP consider the petition before voting on the adoption of the NHI Bill in its current form

 

Guest: Dr. Edward Ngwenya, Vice-Chairperson of South African Medical Association

The South African Network of Religious Leaders Living and Personally affected by HIV supports the call by the South African National AIDS Council Civil Society Forum’s Sex Workers Sector for decriminalisation of sex work, alongside Sisonke Sex Workers Movement.

 

Guest: Prof Mbulelo Dyasi, President of National Family Foundation of South Africa, SANERELA

 

Afrika Update Report: 25 July 2023; 1. Sudan - Khartoum, 100 days of fighting in Sudan and no peace in sight-what we know so far; 2. Mali-USA, The US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has imposed sanctions against Mali's defence minister and two military officials ; 3.Gabon-Libreville, The Gabonese election centre has published a list of 19 candidate for the presidential elections scheduled for August 26; 4. Ghana-Accra, Ghana's former minister for sanitation and water resources Cecilia Dapaah has been arrested after $1m cash scandal; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 25 July 1913 when a meeting called by the South Afrikan Native National Congress now ( ANC) was attended by men and women from Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini.