The National Briefing

Guest: Theo De Jager, Chairperson of The Southern African Agri-Initiative (SAAI)

The foundations of food security in South Africa are being shaken by the new draft regulations from the department of water and sanitation that propose racial quotas for the extraction and storage of water.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Adv. Jan Heunis, Former president of Stellenbosch University convocation 

Six weeks ago the vice chancellor of Stellenbosch University Professor Wim de Villiers was accused of using his position to help two people related to his family to win places at the institution

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Matthew Cuthbert, Democratic Alliance, head of policy

The DA says that it wants to extend the child support grant beyond the age of eighteen - if the person who receives it is still in school

 

 

Guest: Dr. Sayan Dey Postdoctoral Fellow, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies

Authorities in India are now trying to find out three separate trains were involved in one train crash in the eastern state of Odisha - that claimed the lives of at least two hundred and eighty-eight people.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Obed Bapela, ANC's International Relations Subcommittee Deputy Chairperson

ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula says Russian President Vladimir Putin should “not feel belittled” if his BRICS Summit invitation is withdrawn.

 

 

Guest: Adv. Sipho Mantula from the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: UNISA

Afrika Update Report: 5 June 2023; 1. Senegal- Dakar-Ziguinchor , The Senegalese presidential coalition has accused the opposition of destabilizing the country after politica upheaval that left 15 people dead since last week Thursday; 2. Sudan -UN Security Council, In a piecemeal approach the UNSC has unanimously agreed to extend the UN integrated transition assistance mission in Sudan until December 3, 2023 amidst recalling of UN envoy Volker Perthes; 3.Morocco- Casablanca , Several hundreds militants from Morocco's left trade union movement denounced the high cost of living and government inaction  despite ban on demonstration yesterday in Casablanca ( western region of Morocco); 4. Guinea-Bissau,  The registered voters (884, 000) went to legislative polls yesterday to renew their National Assembly which was dissolved over a year ago; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 5 June 1991 when the then South Afrikan apartheid parliament adopted the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act 108 of 1991 which scrapped the segregation  laws relating to the use and occupation of land.

 

 

Guest: Prof. Anton Harbor, Executive Director, Campaign for Free Expression

Campaign for Free Expression is most concerned to hear that the Johannesburg High Court has issued an order blocking investigative journalism unit amaBhungane’s examination of the Moti Company.

 

Guest: Lesiba Thobakgale, SA Police Union Spokesperson

The SA Policing union calls on Police Chief Fannie Masemola to be fired over inability to fight crime.

 

Guest: Heindrich Wyngaard, Executive Chairperson of Cape Forum

Guest: Caryn Dolley, Journalist at the Daily Maverick 

 Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and community conflict specialist at the Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis

Guest: Herman Wasserman, Expert panelist for The International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

The International Panel on the Information Environment was officially launched at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit