Earlier today, President Cyril Ramaphosa opened and addressed the Policing Summit held at the Emperors Palace Convention Centre in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. The President touched on police applying Batho Pele when undertaking their duties…

GUEST: Kamogelo Mogotsi, Ministry of Police Spokesperson

BOSA leader Mmusi Maimane said the party will work with all political parties committed to stopping a VAT increase and passing a workable budget that grows the economy and delivers for all South Africans. Today, the party held a press briefing to outline their submissions to pass a workable budget. To tell us more about this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Nobuntu Hlazo-Webster, BOSA Deputy Leader and MP

Have you ever wondered as to what informs the capability, capacity and ethics of the state? Our guest Dr Musa Nxele gives us a breakdown of the South African state’s complex challenges that have strained the country’s capacity to realise its full potential.

GUEST: Dr Musa Nxele, Political economist and Academic Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance

ANC Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula has slammed the Democratic Alliance and FF Plus for not supporting the 2025 National Budget. However Mbalula told reporters during this afternoon’s media briefing that the ANC has adopted the position of the GNU and nothing has changed in relation to it. So does it mean that they have forgiven the DA? For more explanation on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson

Algeria and Mali have decided to ban flights to and from each other’s airspace. The move comes amid growing tensions between the two nations, as the row over a Malian drone that was recently shot down escalates. The latest is that the alliance of SAHEL States, which is made up of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger has accused Algeria of violating international law and the three countries have recalled their ambassadors to Algiers. For more analysis on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Ibrahim Dean, Independent Researcher & Political commentator

Kimberly residents are calling for the owner of a pit-bull that attacked a ten year-old girl last week to be arrested and they marched to the Witdam police station in Galeshewe today and handed over a petition calling for the removal of all pitbulls across the township.

GUEST: Reverend Dr Fatima Malo, Chairperson of SANARELA in the Northern Cape

Reports suggest the ANC NWC will be meeting today to deliberate on the GNU and the DA’s continued participation in the coalition after what happened last week with the budget. We also saw reports over the weekend about ‘big business’ lobbying to keep the GNU intact. Will the GNU continue existing in its current form or will there be major changes to its composition? To make us make sense of all of this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Ntebo Mokobo, SABC News Politics Journalist

Gauteng police are investigating a case of murder after three men were shot dead at the Zulu Drive and Nape Avenue intersection in Mofolo, Soweto, earlier today. SABC News Reporter, Lerato Makola, was at the scene of the shooting and joins me on the line to tell us more…

GUEST: Lerato Makola, SABC News Reporter

The South African Communist Party argued that the DA is not a key player in the Government of National Unity and should be excluded from the coalition. For more on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Dr. Alex Mashilo, SACP Central Committee member and National Spokesperson

As GNU talks take centre stage. Professor Richard Calland says leaders of both the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance need to put their differences aside as South Africa needs a stable and credible government. But can the DA and the ANC reconcile?

GUEST: Richard Calland, Adjunct visiting professor at the Wits School of Governance and Director of the Africa Programme of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership