The National Briefing

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

Africa Update Report: 24 April 2023; 1. Sudan - Khartoum, Pope Francis calls for warring factions in Sudan to begin dialogue as several countries have started with evacuation and repatriation operation; 2.Uganda - Kampala, President Yoweri Museveni conditionally backs controversial anti-gay laws with few amendments; 3.Comoros- France, The President of Comoros Azali Assoumani has urged for talks with Paris over illegal migrants from the Island of Mayotte; 4.Burundi- Bujumbura, Former Burundi Prime Minister Alain Guillaume Bunyoni has been arrested according to the justice ministry and charges are unclear so far; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 24 April 1970 when the Gambia gained it's independence from Britain and became a republic within the Commonwealth of nations.

Guest: Lebogang Nare, The Association of Private Security Owners of South Africa (TAPSOSA) Deputy President 

The Security Industry yesterday held a press conference about G4S’s involvement in the alleged escape plot of Thabo Bester.

Guest: Dr. Jako Volschenk, Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Sustainability at Stellenbosch Business School

 Behavioural science can save us from mass extinction.

People’s Mediated

Guest: Xolani Shange, Secretary for KZN Nutrition Business Forum

About the five thousand schools in KZN that did not receive food under the school nutrition programme - hundreds of thousands of children didn’t get food to eat.

Guest: Claudine Ribeiro, Director for Johannesburg Parent & Child Counselling Centre

Several NGOs say they are not going to be able to offer services to help people living with disabilities and helping people suffering from substance abuse and other problems because the Gauteng Department of Social Development has cut the money it’s giving them.

Guest: Mbali Hlophe - Gauteng MEC for Social Development

Guest: Hennie Van Vuuren, director of Open Secrets

The Eastern Cape Provincial Government confirmed that President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has landed in the Eastern Cape, on a runway he paid for. This is after the UAE denied our request for the extradition of the Guptas.

Guest: Phanuel Shuma – SABC Reporter in Tshwane

There is a heavy Police presence in Pretoria are evicting refugees who have been camping outside the UN offices

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

Afrika Update Report: 21 April 2023; 1. Sudan - Khartoum, Diplomatic pressure is being stepped by international bodies up to end the conflict as RSF agrees to 72- hour truce on humanitarian ground to mark with Eid al-Fitr  and Kenyan President William Ruto concerned about the conflict threatening the region; 2.France - Algeria, The first meeting of 10 historians on colonization in Algeria has begun its work after created by President Macron and Tebboune ; 3. Mali - Koulikoro, Malian president's chief of staff Oumar Traore and three other colleagues have been killed in an ambush that took place in the rural area of Nara in Mali's South-Western Koulikoro; 4. Egypt- Cairo, An Egyptian lawyer has taken legal action against Netflix for depicting Cleopatra as Black woman in the upcoming movie "Queen Cleopatra"; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 21 April 1966 when Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I visited Jamaica.