The National Briefing

Guest: Hennie Van Vuuren – Open Secrets Director

Guest: Khaya Sithole – Independent Analyst

Guest: Rob Rose – Editor: Financial Mail

Mediated Conversation: auditing firm Deloitte had reached a settlement with the company Tongaat Hulette - over the massive auditing scandal at Tongaat.

 

Guest: Bataung Qhotsokoane - Editor-in-Chief and Lead Researcher, IAfrikan.Com

Staff working at the European Commission have been ordered to remove the TikTok app from their phones and corporate devices.

 

 

 

Guest: Liz McDaid – Strategic Leader: Green Connections

Environmental group Green Connection is lobbying French MPs and members of the European Parliament to hold French corporation TotalEnergies to account for its "ocean grab" in South African waters.

 

 

Guest: Ishmael Mnisi - Department of Higher Education and Training Spokesperson

The Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, is outraged and strongly condemns the continuing murder of the Post School Education and Training students.

 

 

Guest: Angelo Fick – ASRI Director of Research

The claims around corruption at Eskom - the Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said that it was up to Andre de Ruyter to go to the police and not him

 

 

Guest: Samkele Maseko - SABC Politics Reporter

President Cyril Ramaphosa met with the African National Congress (ANC) top officials at the party’s headquarters preparing to reshuffle his cabinet

 

Guest: Sikonathi Mantshantsha – Outgoing Eskom Spokesperson

Sikonathi Mantshantsha leaves Eskom at the end of his contract

 

 

Guest: Philani Mavundla - Abantu Batho Congress Leader

It’s reported that the EThekwini Municipality paid R579-million to have streetlights repaired, which should have cost R91 million.

 

Guest: Susan Comrie – Amambhungane Investigative Journalist

More information has now emerged about a decision by the NPA to drop charges against the environmental consultants used by the company Karpowerships

 

 

Guest: Jefferson Alistair – Westbury Community Leader

In Westbury, Joburg police say a total of eleven people have been shot and wounded - and two people have been killed in a series of shootings since Friday night.