The National Briefing

Guest: Mbekezeli Benjamin, Research and advocacy officer at Judges Matter

The Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Piet Koen has now officially recused himself from hearing the Jacob Zuma arms deal corruption trial - meaning that a new Judge Nkosinathi Chili will now have to take over.

Mediated conversation

Guest: Ntalane Seroka, Phd candidate from University of Westerb Cape

Guest: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson

The ANC has appointed Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri as its new spokesperson replacing Pule Mabe.

Guest: Osborne Molatudi, founder and MD of Molatudi Attorneys

South African companies might start seeing a reversal of the work-from-home trend as a result of loadshedding.

Guest: Prof. Bheki Mngomezulu, Political analyst

EFF leader yesterday said he was pulling out of coalitions with the IFP in KZN. He’s instructed all of the EFF Deputy Mayors in those councils in KZN to resign and says he will remove the IFP from power

Guest: Gideon Chitanga, research associate at the African Centre for the Study of the US: Wits University

In the US it’s been a weekend of marches and demonstrations after the murder by police of an African American man called Tyre Nichols.

Guest: Luke Lamprecht, Head of Advocacy for Women and Men Against Child Abuse

Yesterday police in gauten confirmed they had managed to find and arrest Gerhard Ackerman - the man wanted on over seven hundred counts of child abuse and peodophila and human trafficking

Guest: Samkele Maseko, SABC Political Reporter

The ANC has elected a national working committee (NWC) at its first national executive committee (NEC) meeting this year.

Guest: Ellias Mawela, Gauteng Police Commissioner

Last week a video emerged of a group of men literally digging up a massive electrical cable - and then stealing it - right in front of the local police station in Reiger Park