The National Briefing

Guest: Christo Van der Rheede, Chief Executive Officer: Agri SA

Ahead of tonight’s SONA 2023, Agri SA says that food security hangs in the balance without immediate action on Eskom.

 

 

Guest: Brooks Spector, Associate Editor at Daily Maverick

US President Joe Biden delivered a SONA that appeared to go on the offensive against the republicans, w while some of the republicans appeared to boo him in the main chamber - and called him a liar.

 

Guest: Henk Langenhoven, Minerals Council Chief Economist

Yesterday during the Mining Indaba, President Ramaphosa said we need to sort out electricity supplies, accelerate economic reforms, deal with illegal mining and improve the regulatory environment.

 

 

Guest: Abednico Mabaso, Mister Tourism World Popularity 2022

Mpumalanga's very own Abednico Mabaso wins the 2023 Mr Tourism World Popularity title

 

 

Guest: Cobus van Vuuren, United National Transport Union General Secretary

Guest: Mesela Nhlapo, African Rail Industry Association CEO

Guest: Prof. Jan Havenga, Rail logistics expert from the industrial engineering department of Stellenbosch University

Guest: Bonginkosi Mabaso, Transnet Freight Rail Chief Commercial Office

Mediated Conversation: Transnet to move towards privatization to improve the line and locomotives

 

 

Guest: Ebrahim Deen, Researcher at the Afro-Middle East Centre

It now appears that the number of people known to have died from the massive earth quakes in turkey and Syria is now over 7900.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Prof. Keith Engel, Chief Executive of SA Institute of Tax Professionals

The SARS Commissioner Edward Kieswetter has now said that the time is not right to increase the burden on taxpayers.

 

Guest: Sipho Nhlapo, JRA Acting HOD Mobility & Freight

Guest: Xolani Fihla, JMPD Spokesperson

The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) is concerned about the alarming increase in the theft and vandalism of traffic signals city-wide, including signal pole cutting and the compound effect of this on the economy.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Tandi Mahambehlala, Parliament’s Tourism Portfolio Committee Chairperson

Parliament’s Tourism Portfoliio Committee Chair Tandi Mahambehlala has told Tourism South Africa that it cannot go ahead with its plans to sponsor the English football team Tottenham Hotspur to the tune of just one billion rand.

 

 

 

 

Guest: Cas Coovadia, CEO of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA)

BUSA urges President Ramaphosa to use the upcoming cabinet reshuffle to improve the performance of a government that’s been slow to deliver on promises of economic reform and calls for a smaller, more effective cabinet.