The National Briefing

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

In Pakistan, internet services have been cut - after paramilitary police broke into a court house - breaking windows and were able to arrest the former prime minister Imran Khan.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Themba Fosi, MMC for utilities and regional operations and coordination at the City of Tshwane

There are more reports of problems in some of our metros as they try to implement stage six load shedding - with councils saying their equipment was simply never designed to be switched on and off two or three times a day

 

 

Guest: Jongizizwe Dlabathi – ANC Chief Whip in City Council

The EFF Leader Julius Malema claims that 71 of the Ekurhuleni’s rubbish trucks had been stolen and could not be accounted for, now the ANC in Ekurhuleni says the trucks are accounted for - and that the EFF is lying

 

 

 

Guest: Louw Kannemeyer, SANRAL’s Head of Engineering

SANRAL says it’s distancing itself from reports that it’s running into a fiscal cliff – meaning it’s running out of money to build new roads and to maintain the roads it already controls

 

 

 

 

Guest: Dr. Leverne Mountany, Psychiatrist: Tabula Rasa Wellness

Guest: Vumile Msweli, CEO of Hesed Consulting

Guest: Nickolaus Bauer, campaign manager for alcohol-harm reduction at The DG Murray Trust

Mediated Conversation: Alcohol abuse a threat in the South African workplace

 

 

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

 Afrika Update Report: 9 May 2023;1. Sudan -Ethiopia, Hundreds of refugees are fleeing ongoing military violent unrest in Sudan and have crossed the border into Ethiopia ; 2. DR Congo- South Kivu, Authorities in the DR Congo have announced that the death toll from the floods  that affected the east of the country has reached nearly 400;3. Nigeria -Abuja, A Nigerian court of appeal has begun to address the opposition's presidential vote dispute yesterday ; 4. Malawi - Blantrye,  The Zomba High court yesterday has ordered the Ministry of education to allow Rastafari learners with dreadlocks to be enrolled in public schools in the country; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 9 May 2004 when South African singer and diva Nokuzola Brenda Fassie died in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital.

 

Guest: Thembisa Fakude, Senior Research fellow at Africa Asia Dialogues

In Iran two men have been hanged after being found guilty of committing blasphemy - when prosecutors said they had been convicted of burning the Quran and insulting the prophet of Islam.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Ian Cameron, Community Safety Director at Action Society

Action Society says that the ANC should do much more than just suspend someone from “taking part in the life of the movement” when caught red-handed sexually abusing minors and abusing their position for sexual favours.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Malibongwe Mtima Eastern Cape Education Spokesperson

There are now reports that payments for school nutrition schemes in the Eastern Cape have not been made and children were crying from hunger

 

 

 

Guest: Louis Diremelo, provincial secretary of the ANC in the North West

The ANC in North West says it’s acting against a forty-year-old ANC Ward Councillor - who has been arrested in connection with two counts of statutory rape.