The National Briefing

Guest: Bataung Qhotsokoane, Editor in Chief at iAfrikan.com

Why is StarLink by SA’s Elon Musk, a broadband satellite internet company not available in South Africa?

 

 

 

Guest: Lisa Mangcu, Deputy Minister Transport

Transport ministry on 2023 Summit of the International Transport Forum (ITF)

 

 

 

Guest: Sysman Motloung, Political Analyst: North West University

The Ditsobotla Local Municipality says it can’t pay salaries to their employees

 

 

 

Guest: Siboniso Duma, ANC KZN Provincial Chairperson

The ANC in KZN has said they want a new statue of King Goodwill Zwelithini to be built in the Pietermaritzburg provincial legislature and to be higher than the statue of Queen Victoria in the city.

 

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

 Afrika Update Report:26 May 2023; 1.Ethiopia-Addis Ababa, Afrikan leaders calls to resist all forms of instrumentalisation and for the continent not to become a geostrategic battleground; 2.Guinea -Conakry, The 13th Thabo Mbeki Afrika day annual lecture will be held tommorow to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Afrika and economic growth; 3.South Afrika -Rwanda, One of the most wanted suspects in Rwanda Genocide for 22 years,  Fulgence Kayishema has been arrested in South°Afrika, Western Cape, Paarl; 4.Ukraine- Afrika, Ukraine foreign affairs ministry announced its diplomatic push to open more embassies in Afrika and plan for a summit with its leaders; 5.In our historical archives, it was on this day 26 May 1994 when the late President Nelson Mandela announced his intentions to promote national unity and social cohesion.

Guest: Dr. Sibongiseni Dhlomo, Deputy Minister of Health

The Health Ministry and Experts will this afternoon visit the Jubilee Regional Hospital in Hammanskraal as the number of laboratory-confirmed cases and morality rates increases to 21 in Gauteng, and 1 death in Free State.

 

Guest: Nomzamo Zondo, Executive Director at Socio-economic Rights Institute of South Africa

The Socio Economic Rights Institute says it’s in court in Joburg - asking a judge to stop members and leaders Operation Dudula from engaging in what it says is xenophobic and racist speech.

 

 

Guest: Anthony Turton, Professor: Centre for Environmental Management at the University of Free State

At least twenty-two people have died from cholera in Hammanskraal. Will this happen in other places? 

 

Guest: Nonkululeko Mntambo, Defend our Democracy Communications Officer

The organisation Defend our Democracy says it’s holding an official launch as a movement tomorrow

 

Guest: Makenosi Maroo, Rand Water Spokesperson

Rand Water says that people in and around Ekurhuleni could be without proper water supplies from today until Monday evening