The National Briefing

Guest: Dr. Rhoda Malgas, Lecturer in Conservation Ecology, Stellenbosch University

Rural communities who make a living from wild harvesting indigenous rooibos.

 

 

 

Guest: Michael Sun, MMC for Environment and Infrastructure Services Department.

cities around the country are battling to keep their infrastructure running - because during load shedding people attack their infrastructure and steal from it - or sometimes just vandalise it

 

 

Guest: Tertius Simmers, Human Settlements and Infrastructure MEC

In the Western Cape, a total of 25 housing projects have been affected by extortionists over the last five years, leaving almost 19 000 beneficiaries without help

 

 

 

Guest: Matthew Cruise, Independent energy expert

There was confirmation from Eskom yesterday that it will now implement stage six load shedding until further notice because of problems at eleven of its power stations.

 

 

 

Guest: Songezo Zibi, Rivonia Circle Chairperson

Yesterday the higher education minister was at the University of Fort Hare - he promised action and said there would be a task team to look at issues of corruption and the safety of people at higher education institutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Francois Rodgers, Leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal

The DA in KZN says it’s taking action against a Newcastle councillor Connie Hariram accused of racism by sending a voice note asking why a black woman was appointed to a ward committee in an area where mostly Indian people live.

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Desmond Latham, Aviation ExpertThere were

dramatic scenes in the US yesterday - when every single domestic flight was grounded - and told that they could not take off.

 

 

 

 

 

Guest: Zain Lundell, Attorney at RH Lawyers

There is now going to be a class action law suit against the people responsible for that massive gas tanker explosion in Boksburg on Christmas eve

 

 

 

 

Guest: Adv. Pikkie Greeff, National Secretary for the South African National Defence Union

The SANDF has now confirmed that at least one our soldiers was involved in the burning of bodies of insurgents in Mozambique after a video emerged of soldiers just throwing bodies onto a burning pile of rubbish.

 

 

Guest: Julian Rademeyer, Director of the Organised Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.

Guest: Eldred De Klerk- Senior policing and community conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence Praxis

Guest: Thabiso Zulu, whistle blower

Mediated Conversation: Why are there so many assassinations in SA?