The National Briefing

Guest: Lucky Ntimane, National Liquor Traders Council national convener

Liquor Traders welcome the Finance Ministers Speech.

 

 

Guest: Professor Mark Swilling, head of the University of Stellenbosch's Centre for Sustainable Transition

Government will take over two hundred and fifty four billion rands worth of the Eskom debt

 

 

Guest: Jongizizwe Dlabathi, SALGA Gauteng chairperson

Guest: Seth Mazibuko, Soweto crisis committee leader

Finance Minister says that there will be a process of incentivized relief for municipalities to pay their debt - again if those councils stick to these conditions

 

 

Guest: Mametlwe Sebei - General Industries Workers Union of SA President

GIWUSA support protests against neoliberal austerity budget speech.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Edward Kieswetter. Commissioner of SARS

SARS accepted the increased revenue collection estimate announced by Minister of Finance. The Minister increased the revenue estimate to R1.69 trillion, an increase of R93.7 billion from the 2022 February Budget statement.

 

 

Guest: Tebogo Khaas - Chair - Public Interest SA

Public Interest SA Is Appalled By Outgoing Eskom Ceo Andre De Ruyter Comments On Utility

 

 

 

 

Guest: Professor Eric Atmore, Director of the Centre for Early Childhood Development

The Centre for Early Childhood Development dissapointed about the Finance Ministers Budget Speech yesterday

 

 

 

Guest: Abraham Pokwas, former deputy mayor of Swellendam Local Municipality

In the Western Cape three people who belonged to the DA in the town of Swellendam are now going to court saying that they should not have been expelled from the party.

 

 

Guest: Tom Moultrie is professor of demography and director of the Centre for Actuarial Research (CARe) at the University of Cape Town

South Korea has again broken its own record as the country with the lowest fertility

 

 

 

Guest: John Stremlau, Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand.

Guest: Professor David Monyae - Director · University of Johannesburg Centre for Africa-China Studies

Guest: Dr Sifiso Ntombela, Agricultural Economist with the National Agricultural Marketing Council.

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