The National Briefing

Guest: Nthabiseng Dubazana, Legal analyst and Director and Attorney at Dubazana

A witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial says she doesn’t want her testimony to be broadcast

 

 

 

 

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah - senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection

Turkiye will now go to a run-off presidential election in two weeks’ time - after the incumbent president Recep Erdogoan beat his main challenger - but didn’t get 50% of the vote.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Sizwe Tsotetsi, Standerton Community leader

There’s been protests in Standerton in the Lekwa municipality in Mpumalanga - with people calling for the Mayor Louis Thabethe to step down.

 

Guest: Mari Harris, Senior Client Officer Ipsos

An Ipsos survey has now shown that unemployment is the top worry for South Africans

 

 

 

Guest: Lawrence Troon, MMC Safety & Security for Nelson Mandela Bay

There are now mop-up operations in Nelson Mandela Bay following heavy rains

 

 

 

 

 

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

 Afrika Update Report: 16 May 2023; 1. Sudan -Khartoum, Air strikes and explosions rocked Sudan yesterday as no sign of peace despite Egypt, South Sudan, IGAD and Jeddah declaration's efforts for mediation process ; 2. Colombia - Kenya, South Africa and Ethiopia, The vice-president of Colombia Francia Marquez is on tour in several Afrikan countries amid controversy and strong criticism from the conservative opposition; 3.Kenya-Somalia, Kenya and Somalia have agreed to reopen their land border by July 1 since 2011 due to the insurrection of radical Islamist Shebab; 4. South Africa -Midrand,  The secondary session of the sixth Pan Afrikan Parliament began yesterday until the 2nd of June 2023 under the theme " Year of AFCTA: Acceleration of the African Continental Free Trade Area Implementation ; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 16 May 1977 when Winnie Nomzamo Madikezela Mandela was banished to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort (Majemasweu) in the Free State.

 

 

Guest: Alan Christoffels, Director South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape

African scientists are working to pool data that decodes diseases – a giant step.

 

 

 Guest: Wilmien Wicomb, Attorney at Legal Resources Centre

The Legal Resources Centre, on behalf of a member of seven traditional communities in Limpopo, is challenging the imposition of taxes, levies, and rates by traditional councils in the province.

 

 

Guest: Kenny Kunene – MMC: Transport – City of Joburg

The Acting Mayor of Joburg Kenny Kunene led what he says are interventions to look at hijacked buildings in the centre of Joburg

 

 

 

Guest: Dr Sharon Nyatsanza, National Council Against Smoking deputy director

Guest: Prof Corne Van Walbeek, Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town

Mediated Conversation: Next month a new tax of two rand nine a millilitre will be imposed on nicotine and non-nicotine vape juice.