The National Briefing

Hannes du Buisson - Broadcasting, Electronic, Media & Allied Workers Union (BEMAWU) President

The process of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies' list of the candidates to constitute the SABC Board has been concluded

Guest: Bayethe Mswazi, President of the Black Lawyers Association

The Black Lawyers Association says that they are shocked and angry that their North West Black Lawyers Association chairperson Zanele Nkosi shot dead outside her office.

Guest: Lorraine Govender, National Manager: Health Promotion Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA)

World Health Day: e-cigarettes and the importance of the new Tobacco Control Bill to better protect the health of our nation and curb the costs of tobacco use.

Guest: Grant Heyman, Marketing Coordinator at National Debt Advisors (NDA)

SA families urged to avoid bad debt this long weekend, as interest rates soar.

 Guest: Dr. Alice Maree, CITASA's Incident and Analytics Manager

Yesterday during a cash-in-transit in Sebokeng (Vereeniging), nine suspects were killed, three injured and six firearms were recovered.

Africa Update with Adv. Sipho Mantula from Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International: UNISA

Afrika Update Report: 07 April 2023; 1.  African Diaspora - Addis Ababa The Afrika House and African-Union mission to the USA will host High Level Forum in Accelerating Africa’s Recovery and Development coinciding with World Bank and IMF spring meeting in Washington D.C; 2. Ethiopia -Tigray - The newly appointed president of Tigray's interim state Getachew Reda has unveiled a new cabinet which will lead the political transition in the region ; 3. Nigeria  -Abuja, A presidential candidate and petitioner Peter Obi is under pressure to leave Nigeria according to his Labour party's spokesperson Dr Tanko Yunusa; 4. Liberia -Monrovia, ECOWAS commission President Dr Omar Alieu Touray has called on the National Elections Commission( NEC) to be firm in executing its responsibilities ahead of October presidential and legislative elections ; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 7 April 1874 when one of the first black Afrikan graduates, political activist and founder of the Bantu Women's League was born in Ramokgopa, Polokwane- Limpopo and that is Cde Charlotte Makgomo Mannya Maxeke.

Guest: Dr. Alice Maree, CITASA's Incident and Analytics Manager

Yesterday during a cash-in-transit in Sebokeng (Vereeniging), nine suspects were killed, three injured and six firearms were recovered.

Guest: Xolani Fihla, Johannesburg Metro Police Department spokesperson

Guest: Jane Mulaudzi, Chief director for Provincial Traffic, Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety

Guest: Colonel Boysie Zungu, Durban Metro Police Service spokesperson

Afrika Update Report: 06 April 2023; 1. Zimbabwe - Harare, The Government of Zimbabwe to investigate gold smuggling ( Gold Mafia) after undercover Al Jazeera investigation ; 2. Togo- Gabon, A half-brother of Togolese President Faure Gnassingibe has been evacuated to Gabon for health reasons; 3.Republic of Congo- Brazzaville,  The Ministry of Tourism welcomes its first cruise ship (SH Vega) carrying 150 tourists of various nationalities in the port of the economic and oil capital of Pointe-Noire; 4.   Kenya- Rwanda, Kenyan President William Ruto is on two day visit to Kigali to engage with President Kagame on positive developments in the Eastern DRC and recent protest in Nairobi; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 6 April 1994 when Rwandan and Burundian presidents Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprian Ntayamira were killed in air crash in Rwanda.

Guest: Na’eem Jeenah, senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute of Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)