The National Briefing

Guest: Zolile Monakali, MEC for Education in the Northern Cape

The Northern Cape education department says it’s concerned that more than 3 000 pupils have fallen pregnant between last year and March this year. The pupils are between 10 and 19 years old.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Marion Stevens, Director of the Sexual and Reproductive Justice Coalition (SRJC)

How big of a problem is teenage pregnancy and sugar daddies in SA?

 

 

Guest: Dr Mavis Ureka, human behaviour specialist

Guest: Eunice Sibiya, Financial and Life Coach

Guest: Alvinah Thela, Director: Retirement Savings at National Treasury

 

 

Guest: Ali Sablay, operations manager Gift of the Givers

 

 

Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research Fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues

 

 

Afrika Update Report : 20 June 2023; 1. Tunisia-Tunis; Tunisia government held talks on illegal migration with French and German interior and intelligence ministers ; 2. Egypt-Sudan-EU, The European Union high representative has allocated and donated $22 million to Egypt in the face of the Sudanese refugee crisis ; 3.Sierra Leone -Freetown, Opposition party , All People's Congress ( APC)  gathered in the capital to protest against dire economic situation ahead of presidential elections on June 24th, 2023; 4. DR Congo-Kinshasha, The opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu has threatened to boycott December 2023 presidential elections ; 5.In our historical archives, it was on this day 20 June 2014 when the United Nations General Assembly  decided that 20 June would be celebrated as World Refugee Day and this year theme is "Hope away from Home: A World where Refugees are always included"

 

 

Guest: Kristen Abrahams, attorney: Legal Resources Centre's Johannesburg

 

 

Guest: Busi Mavuso, Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO

 

 

Guest: Marike Carli, the public relations manager at the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS)

 

 

Guest: Matome Chiloane – Gauteng Education MEC