The National Briefing

Guest: Professor Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand 

Guest: Dr Philani Mthembu, Executive Director at the Institute for Global Dialogue

Guest: Dr. Khabele Matlosa, Visiting Professor, Centre for African Diplomacy and Leadership, University of Johannesburg (UJ).

Mediated Conversation: do we need borders in Africa?

 

 

Guest: Dr. Siphiwe Dlamini - lecturer, School of Physiology, Wits University

A study by Wits University has now revealed that poor mental health in SA is linked to food insecurity

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Julian Rademeyer, Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime's East and Southern Africa research observatory.

Charlene Felicity Mathews was shot dead on Tuesday in Mpumalanga, she was the wife of the former traditional leader chief Clyde Mnisi - who was also killed in the same way a week ago

 

 

 

 

Guest: Kaizer Kganyago, spokesperson Special Investigating Unit

The Special Investigating Unit is now accusing a lawyer from the office of the state attorney of defrauding government of twenty-seven million rand. Advocate Hassan Ebrahim Kajee was arrested over the weekend

 

 

Guest: Karam Singh, Corruption Watch executive director

Corruption Watch has released a big report looking at the trends of corruption - they suggest that the problems caused by corruption are now being seen in our cities and towns

 

 

 

Guest: Thato Molosankwe, Mahikeng Social Activist 

It’s emerged that four hundred and sixty million rand given to nine councils in North West for service delivery and infrastructure was returned - because it had not been spent.

 

 

 

Guest: Herman Mashaba, ActionSA leader

ActionSA announces that they have been in talks with the IFP, VF+, ACDP and other political parties to form a coalition pact to remove the ANC from power come 2024.

 

 

 

 

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

Afrika Update Report: 5 April 2023; 1. South Afrika- Uganda, South Afrikan LGBTQI+ activists led by the Economic Freedom Fighter President Julius Sello Malema gathered outside the Ugandan High Commission in Tshwane to demonstrate against the anti-gay bill ; 2. Sierra Leone - Free Town, Political Parties Requlatory Commission have banned political street parade less than to three months before the presidential elections on June 24; 3. Madagascar - Antananarivo, The Ministry of interior has banned public political protests ahead of Presidential elections in November 2023 but allow enclosed places; 4. Ethiopia's Tigray- EU and US, The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrel says the EU and USA are monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement in Ethiopia between the federal government in Addis Ababa and Tigray interim government in Mekelle; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 5 April 1990 when the Reconciliation talks between the late F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela were rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng.

 

Guest: Vuyo Mhaga, Spokesperson of Premier Panyaza Lesufi

There’s been reports in City Press that the Gauteng MEC for Economic Development Tasneem Motara has fired the acting CEO of the Gauteng Growth and Development agency - Simphiwe Hamilton a month before his contract was due to end

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Leslie Petrik, Professor of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape

Researchers have now said that the coastline is contaminated by chemicals from inadequately treated sewage.