The National Briefing

Guest: Daniel Steyn, GroundUp Journalist

What do we know about the role that a former prison warder Senohe Matsoare and the father of Dr Nandipha Magudumana - Zolile Sekeleni played in the escape of Thabo Bester?

Guest: Mxolisi Kaunda, Mayor of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality

The Mayor of eThekwini Mxolisi Kaunda is again examining infrastructure in the city after last year’s incredible flooding there. It’s now a year since those floods in Easter last year claimed so many lives.

Guest: Prof. Mark Swilling, co-director Centre of Sustainability Transitions: University of Stellenbosch

There now appears to be uncertainty as to what government and Eskom will actual do regarding the coal fired power stations which are currently coming to the end of their designed life span

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

 Afrika Update Report: 12 April 2023; 1. Germany- Chad, Berlin has ordered Chad's Ambassador Mariam Ali Moussa to leave Germany within 48 hours in tit-for-tat move ; 2. Somalia-Baidoa, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has visited a camp for internally displaced people in Baidoa in Somalia's South West and urges for more aid ; 3.Comoros -France- Mayotte, The Comoros government has asked France to abandon a planned operation "Wuambushu" take over and destruction of illegal housing arrest of migrants living in the Comorian island of Mayotte; 4.Ethiopia- Amhara, Ethiopian authorities have imposed curfew on nightlife in three major cities in the Amhara region including Gondar; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 12 April 1942 (Jacob Gehleyihlekisa Zuma) and 1949 (Pravin Jamnadas Gordan) when two African National Congress Leaders were born

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, associate professor of strategy in the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University

In the US, there is now a huge investigation into how a group of documents all classified top secret ended up being posted on a social media website.

People’s Mediated

Guest: Cilliers Brink, City of Tshwane Mayor

The City of Tshwane Energy & Electricity officials are trying to cut the seven power lines that fell on the N4 freeway, plunging large parts of Pretoria East and North into darkness.

Guest: Gideon Chitanga, Research Associate at African Centre for the study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand

President Cyril Ramaphosa to send envoy to the US to explain SA stance on Russia.

Guest: Ashley Uys, Chief Executive Officer at Medical Diagnostech

Medical Diagnostech launches new app HealthPulse TestNow.

National Freedom Party calls special meeting in Durban as liquidation looms.

Guest: Ahmed Shaik Emam, National Freedom Party Parliamentary leader