The National Briefing

Guest: Nkhetheni Muthavhi, SAMWU National Deputy General Secretary

SAMWU concerned by several municipalities’ failure to pay May salaries on time, demands immediate payment of salaries.

 

 

Guest: Matthew Cruise – Hohm Energy's Head of Business Intelligence

There has now finally been confirmation over the powers that the minister in the presidency for electricity Kgosientso Ramakgopa will have - after the president officially conferred him with powers on Friday.

 

 

 

Guest: Gary van Niekerk, Newly elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay

Councillor from the Northern Alliance party, Gary van Niekerk elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay

 

 

 

Guest: Mziwake Seleke Denosa North West Deputy Chairperson

There’s been reports that new-born babies in the Mahikeng provincial hospital had been placed in cardboard boxes - instead of in incubators or cribs.

 

 

 

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

 Afrika Update Report: 29 May 2023; 1. Nigeria-Abuja, Ruling party president-elect Bola Tinubu will be inaugurated today as Nigerians are looking at the economic turnaround; 2.Sudan-Khartoum, The ongoing conflict in  Sudan has left the banking sector in chaos and it's customers; 3.Somalia-Uganda,  President Yoweri Museveni has criticised and accused the deployed Ugandan troops in Somalia for panicking and withdrawing from the Al Shabaab attack; 4. Guinea -Conakry , Former President Thabo Mbeki has warned that external players are continuing to meddle in Afrika's affairs and sowing divisions; 5.In our historical archives , it was on this day 29 May 1999 when after 16 years of military rule , Olusegun Obasanjo was elected and sworn in as the President of Nigeria.

 

 

Guest: Zeenat Adam, Deputy Executive Director Deputy Executive Director the Afro-Middle East Centre

In Turkiye the president Recep Erdogan has managed to win the run off presidential election - taking 52% of the vote compared to his challenger Kemal Kilic-Daroglu who won just under 48%.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Madoda Sambatha, North West Health MEC

There’s been reports that new-born babies in the Mahikeng provincial hospital had been placed in cardboard boxes - instead of in incubators or cribs.

 

 

 

Guest: Lambert de Klerk, Manager: environmental affairs, AfriForum

The water samples taken by AfriForum and Save Ngwathe in the Vaal River at Parys on Tuesday tested positive for cholera. An accredited laboratory took water samples at various locations in this town under the supervision of a water specialist.

 

 

Guest: Paul Esterhuizen, CEO of School-Days

Interest rates: Many parents across the country are struggling to pay for school fees, and hikes in prices are showing no sign of slowing.

 

 

Guest: Mu Ngcolosi, KZN Film Commission head of marketing and communications

The KZN Film is inviting projects that are linked to governments priorities of job creation and creation of sustainable livelihoods for rural communities, youth, women and persons living with disabilities.