The National Briefing

Guest: Motlatsi Tsubane, Nehawu shop steward and court interpreter. 

Court interpreters and clerks protested yesterday at the Cape Town Magistrate's court. The protestors are alleging the abuse of power by magistrates and prosecutors against ordinary workers in courts.

 

 

 

Guest: Angelika Loots, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pretoria

COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Rob Bryne, SABC Traffic Reporter

Guest: Bafana Magagula, SANTACO national Strategic Manager

Guest: Vhatuka Mbelengwa, E-hailing Operators

Guest: Simon Zwane - RTMC Spokesperson

Mediated Conversation: New data shows that Pretoria traffic is now worse than Cape Town and Joburg

 

 

Guest: Professor Somadoda Fikeni, Public Service Commission chairperson

The Public Service Commission will host the Citizens’ Forum at Nqwathi, Eastern Cape today in the spirit of improving service delivery to address the needs of citizens and improve the trust between citizens and Government.

 

 

Guest: Elijah Mhlanga, Department of Education Spokesperson

The Department of Basic Education responding to the Centre for Development and Enterprise report titled: The Silent Crisis: Time to Fix South Africa’s Schools

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Reggie Ngcobo spokesperson of the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development

Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development responding to a caller who is a farmer saying that he is struggling at his farm due to covid, floods and loadshedding

 

 

 

Guest: Professor Stephan de Beer, the director of the Centre for Faith and Community at University of Pretoria

The University of Pretoria report has now found that unemployment is the main cause of homelessness in Tshwane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

Africa Update Report: 30 March 2023; 1. Lesotho - Maseru, Lawmakers in Lesotho led by MP Tshepo Lipholo of BCM  are debating to reclaim parts of South Africa based on 1962 United Nations; 2. Senegal - Dakar, Confrontation and clashes broke out yesterday at the University of Dakar between students and police on the eve of Ousmane Sonko trial ; 3. Mozambique - Maputo, Frelimo majority has approved electoral law change as Renamo demonstrate in Parliament yesterday; 4. Botswana-Gaborone, The Botswana government has rejected the Anti-democracy allegations by former president Ian Khama ; 5. In our historical archives, it was on this day 30 March 1960 when the late Philip Kgosana of the PAC of Azania led a March from Langa and Nyanga to the Police HQ in Caledon Square against the pass law.

 

 

Guest: Abel Esterhuyse, Associate Professor of strategy: Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University

In Ukraine, the head of the Russian private army the Wagner group - Yevgeny Prigozhin has said that the battle for the city of Bakhmut has practically destroyed Ukraine’s army

 

 

 

 

Guest: Captain Lloyd Ramovha, Gauteng Hawks spokesperson

Guest: Jeff Wicks, News24 Investigative journalist

Guest: Lesiba Mpya, ANC Ekurhuleni spokesperson

The Hawks have now raided the home and business premises of ANC in Ekurhuleni person who is linked to the Tembisa hospital scandal