The National Briefing

 

 

Afrika Update Report: 22 June 2023; 1. Sierra Leone- Freetown, Sierra Leone decides 2023 as opposition supporters and police clashed yesterday, demanding the release of the detailed voters register ; 2. Zimbabwe-Harare,  The Zimbabwe nomination court have begun to officially register presidential and  party list candidates ; 3. Rwanda-Zambia, President Paul Kagame and Hakainde Hichilema have affirmed their commitment to strengthen bilateral ties on agriculture, trade, investment and fostering development and improving the wellbeing of their citizens; 4. Mozamabique-South Africa, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Candith Mashego-Dlamini concludes his official visit to Mozambique to assess and evaluate progress of the Bi-National Commission that was held in 2022; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 22 June 1971 when the Pan Afrikanist Congress of Azania Founding President Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe was refused and exit permit to leave South Africa.

 

 

Guest: Phinah Kodisang, CEO of the Soul City Institute

Guest: Kristen Abrahams, Legal Resources Centre attorney

Guest: Lerato Ntwampe, Social Media Legal Consultant

Guest: Nomshado Lubisi, Media Monitoring Africa Communications Manager

Mediated Conversation: The Legal Resources Centre did an experiment on social media to see whether overtly xenophobic content would be approved or not.

 

 

Guest: Dr Thembisile Xulu, South African National AIDS Council CEO

A new National Strategic Plan for the period 2023 to 2028 – described as ‘a road map’ for ending HIV, TB and sexually transmitted infections as public health threats – has been launched.

 

 

 

Guest: Martin Blyth, press secretary at British Titanic Society

The search continues for the missing Titan submarine.

 

 

Guest: Prof. Salim Abdool Karim, Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)

The Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla says that to meet our united nations targets in treating and helping people living with HIV we need to put another one point four million people on treatment.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson of the Special Investigating Unit

The Bhisho High Court granted the Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane an interdict against parts of the proclamation signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the SIU to investigate corruption at fort hare university.

 

 

 

Guest: Imre Nagy, CEO of Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA)

Auditors can now be fines of up to R25 million if found to be in breach of South Africa’s Auditing Profession Act

 

 

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick

The son of the US President - Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two counts that he did not pay his taxes on over one million dollars in income for two years - and to deal with a charge of owning a gun illegally

 

 

 

 

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from TM Afrikan School of Public and International Affairs

 Afrika Update Report: 21 June 2023; 1. Sierra Leone-Freetown,  British A -list actor and Son of Sierra Leone Idris Elba calls for peaceful election and African union has deployed its electoral observer mission; 2.Nigeria-Abuja, Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has reorganised security apparatus as his top priority ; 3. Uganda-Kampala, Covid-19 free Museveni has resumed his normal course of his duties; 4. Rwanda-South Africa, Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema has abandoned his application for bail and applied for asylum in South Africa; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 21 June 1989 when the late Mama Albertina Sisulu addressed a major anti-apartheid rally in London.