The National Briefing

Guest: Thato Ramaila, Chairman of Soweto United E-hailing Association

The Transport MMC in Joburg Kenny Kunene, says he doesn’t believe that taxi operators in Soweto were responsible for the attacks on E-hailing vehicles on Thursday night outside the Maponya mall

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: 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

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

Guest: Mbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, former general-secretary of Cosatu and co-founder of Cope

Mediated Conversation:  Survival guide for the winter - what you need to do to survive the next few cold winter months?

Guest: Dr. Ade' Van Heerden, Medical Doctor  

Guest: Robert Mulaudzi, Spokesperson of the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management

Guest: De La Harpe Le Roux, founder of Towers of Hope in Bloemfontein

Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Political Analyst

ANC finds Magashule guilty of misconduct, has 7 days to argue against expulsion.

Lamola presents a bill to cushion whistle-blowers against financial ruin.

Guest: Chrispin Phiri, Spokesperson for Ministry of Justice & Correctional Services

Guest: Dr. Abongile Balarane, Chief Executive Officer at South African Poultry Association

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak has affected five commercial chicken farms.

Electricity and Eskom at the back of the budget vote

Guest: Prof. Mark Swilling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Stellenbosch