The National Briefing

Guest: Solomon Kganyago, Chief Operating Officer at Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at The Daily Maverick

Guest: Dereleen James, Eldorado Park anti-drugs activist

Guest: Christo van der Rheede, CEO of Agri SA

Guest: Derek McKernan, Chief Manufacturing Officer - Tiger Brands

Guest: Khathutshelo Rambau, Research Assistant at National Agricultural Marketing Council

Mediated Conversation: food production and load shedding- how is it affecting people?

Guest: Kevin Lings - STANLIB's Chief Economist

how do countries borrow money from the IMF?

Guest: Gabriella Leighton, Post-Doctoral fellow at Rhodes University

Caracals have metal pollutants in their blood.

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

 Afrika Update Report: 10 May 2023; 1. Sudan - White Nile State, Ethnic clashes between Hausa and Nuba groups has claimed 16 lives and prompting curfew imposition; 2. Namibia-Windhoek, A special summit of SADC which includes Angola, South Africa and Tanzania has backed the deployment of SADC standby force to restore peace and Security in the Eastern DRC; 3.Burundi-Bujumbura, Former Prime Minister Alain -Guillaume Bunyoni has been indicted this week for undermining national security and insulting President Evariste Ndayishimiye;4. Nigeria -Abuja, A number of protesters stormed the appeal court in Abuja to express their concern about the outcome of the election results; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 10 May 1994 when the late Tata Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratic president at Union buildings in Tshwane.

Guest: Sandile July, Labour & Employment lawyer

Many of South African who are paid the bare legal minimum, will see above-inflation increases in coming years in terms of a new plan.

Guest: Shirley Mlombo, SAHRC North West Provincial Manager

SAHRC finds Tswaing Local Municipality and Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in violation of the Constitution, the Water Services Act, the National Water Standards Regulations, and the National Environmental Management Act.

Guest: Isaac Mangena, City Power spokesperson

City Power will no longer respond to outage calls from customers who continue to refuse to pay for electricity, including customers with non-vending meters, non-paying customers or defaulting customers.