The National Briefing

Guest: Matthew Parks, COSATU Parliamentary Coordinator

COSATU welcomes the release of draft legislation to allow workers early access to their pension funds by National Treasury

 

 

Guest: Charlotte Powell, City of Cape Town Disaster Risk Management spokesperson

In Cape Town, people in informal settlements have had to leave their homes - because of flooding - people with children say they have nowhere to go after flooding in Strand, Mfuleni, Gugulethu and Khayalitsha

 

 

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

Afrika Update Report: 15 June 2023; 1. Sudan- Djibouti, The 14th ordinary session of the IGAD assembly of Heads of State and Government adopted four point action plan to resolve the ongoing Sudan crisis

Guest: Gustavo De Carvalho, Senior Researcher on Russia-Africa ties at the African Governance and Diplomacy Programme at South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko says his country has now received three tactical nuclear weapons from Russia - and that these bombs are three times more powerful than the bombs used by the Americans on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

 

 

Mediated Conversation: The History of Shaka Zulu

 Guest: Dan Wylie, Professor in the English department at Rhodes University

Guest: Professor Musa Xulu, Executive Director of the Heritage Development Trust

Guest: Hlonipha Mokoena, associate professor at the wits institute for social and economic research and advisor for Shaka Ilembe series

Guest: Ron Watermeyer, Visiting Adjunct Professor School of Construction Economics and Management, University of the Witwatersrand

Guest: William Gumede, associate professor at the School of Governance of the University of the Witwatersrand

Guest: Gundo Maswime, University of Cape Town Civil Engineering Lecturer

Mediated Conversation: why do government projects take so long to be completed?

 

 

Guest: Mgwebu Msiya, Eastern Cape Liquor Board spokesperson

The Eastern Cape Liquor Board said it will double down on underage drinking as high school learners plan their annual "pens down" after Eyobeni tragedy.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Peter Mbelengwa, Director of External Communications at the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries

Forestry, Fisheries and Environment deploys second team of 200 firefighters to fight wildfires in Alberta, Canada

 

 

Guest: Azar Jamminne, Director and Chief Economist of Econometrix

Four of the most Senior Politicians in the US - from both the Democratic and Republican parties have now written to the US Secretary of State and the President - asking them to move the AGOA summit from South Africa

 

Guest: Khanyisa Mapipa, Health Rights Attorney act SECTION27

Lack of urgency as Gauteng Health sits on money earmarked to outsource urgent cancer treatment.