We are back to load shedding again as Eskom announces that stage 3 load shedding will be implemented from today until Monday next week. The power utility says their decision comes after a loss of 2700MW in the past 14 hours. But what are some of the major contributing factors to this? For more on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Craig Morkel, Chair of the Gas Economy Leadership Team at the SA Oil and Gas Alliance.

Earlier on, I spoke to Wayne Duvenage, OUTA CEO, about some of the interesting proposals the organisation came up with to potentially resolve the country’s budget impasse without squeezing taxpayers further. I’ll discuss some of these with my next guest and maybe get an idea on what he, Xhanti Payi, thinks needs to be done to deal with this budget impasse.

GUEST: Xhanti Payi, Economist

The Concerned Makhanda Residents will meet at the Makhanda police station at 12 noon tomorrow to travel to Vergenoeg, one of the town's working class and impoverished communities, which has been without water for weeks. For more on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Archbishop Nkosinathi Ngesi

Kevin Allan, MD of Municipal IQ, joins me on the line to react to some of the comments the President made about the City of Joburg and Gauteng Metros…

GUEST: Kevin Allan, MD of Municipal IQ

In the next four days, the Electoral Commission will host a three-day e-voting conference in Cape Town to start a public conversation about the prospect of electronic voting, during South African elections. To outline some of the key issues that are going to be discussed during this important meeting is…..

GUEST: Mr Masego Sheburi, IEC’s Deputy Chief Electoral Officer

As trade tensions rise between China and the United States of America. Beijing has made it clear that it will do whatever is necessary to firmly safeguard its legitimate interests. This after revealing that they are going to impose additional tariffs of up to 15% on some US goods from the 10th of this month. The retaliatory measures were announced soon after U.S tariffs took effect on Chinese goods. For more analysis on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Gideon Chitanga, Researcher at the Centre for Africa-China Studies at UJ

OUTA has come up with some interesting proposals that are aimed at resolving the country’s budget impasse without squeezing taxpayers further. This as they believe that there is little left to extract from taxpayers and any increase of VAT must be an absolute last resort. To unpack some of these proposals, we are joined by …..

GUEST: Wayne Duvenage, OUTA CEO

The MMC for Public Safety in the City of Joburg, Dr. Mgcini Tshwaku launched Operation Nomakanjani Manje Namhlanje. The operation focused on Undocumented Foreigners and Crime Prevention in the Inner City of Johannesburg.

GUEST: Dr. Mgcini Tshwaku, MMC for Public Safety in the City of Joburg

The death toll in the Free State horror crash between a truck and a bus stood at 10 earlier today. The crash took place in the early hours of this morning on the N6, approximately 15 km south of Reddersburg towards Smithfield. To get an update on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Sipho Towa, District Manager for Free State EMS Control Centre

We continue with the story. Joining me on the line now is…

GUEST: Jean-Pierre Smith, Western Cape Safety & Security MMC