The National Briefing

Guest: Jan Vermeulen, Editor at Mybroadband

Google’s AI tool can now code in more than 20 languages. 

 

 

 

Guest: Jacob Maroga, former Eskom CEO

What formal powers does the Electricity Minister have?

 

 

 

 

The Democratic Alliances Dr Mpho Phalatse says that she wants to make a return as the Mayor of Johannesburg, since the city currently doesn’t have a Mayor

 Guest: Mpho Phalatse, DA mayoral candidate for City of Johannesburg

 

 Guest: Samkele Maseko, SABC Political reporter

Yesterday, during a press conference on the outcomes of the ANC NEC meeting, ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula said that if it means soldiers must be deployed to fight crime, that should happen

 

SADTU KwaZulu Natal is noting with grave concern the unfortunate circumstances that most schools find themselves in with regards to the non-delivery of food items for the National School Nutrition Programme

Guest: Nomarashiya Caluza (Provincial Secretary) SADTU KZN

 

 

 

 

Guest: Mpho Phalatse, DA mayoral candidate for City of Johannesburg

The Democratic Alliances Dr Mpho Phalatse says that she wants to make a return as the Mayor of Johannesburg, since the city currently doesn’t have a Mayor

 

 

 

Guest: Professor Christopher Isike, Director, African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Pretoria

US President Joe Biden says that he is going to run for a second term in office at the age of eighty and he’s looking for another four years as the president of the US.

 

 

 

Guest: Prof Ntsikelelo Breakfast, Acting Head of the Department of History and Political Studies: Nelson Mandela University

Yesterday the ANC first said we would stay in the International Criminal Court, then Fikile Mbalula said we would leave, then President Cyril Ramaphosa said we would leave. Now the President says we will stay in the ICC.

Guest: Sanusha Naidu - Senior Research Fellow: Institute for Global Dialogue

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

 Africa Update Report: 26 April 2023;  1. Sudan - Khartoum, U.N refugee agency has warned of further displacement of people and patients are also stranded in Khartoum's hospitals ; 2. Tanzania-Dodoma, The international monetary fund (IMF) has approved the first review of Tanzania's three-year extended credit facility allowing immediate disbursement of about $153 million in budgetary support; 3. South Africa - Zimbabwe, The 180 000 Zimbabwean exemption permits (ZEP) holders whose documents expires on 30 June have not made a formal request to the Zimbabwean Embassy to facilitate their return home; 4.Afrika Diaspora -New York, Harry Belafonte, a singer , songwriter and ground-breaking actor has died at the age of 96 yesterday; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 26 April 1964 when Tanganyika United with Zanzibar to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar  and later renamed the United Republic of Tanzania.

 

 

Guest: Morné Mostert, AfriForum's manager for Local Government Affairs

Guest: Prof. Sampson Mamphweli, Head of the Energy Secretariat at the South African National Energy Development Institute

Guest: Vally Padayachee, Chairman of the Management Committee of the NRS Association of SA and former executive manager of Eskom

Mediated Conversation: Last week, a high court judge in Johannesburg ruled that the town of Frankfort - in the Free State - could no longer use the electricity from a solar power plant right next to it to cut back on load shedding.