Various departments in KwaZulu-Natal are meeting with the Provincial Legislature’s SCOPA, to report on how they have implemented legislature resolutions, relating to how they handle public funds. We also understand that the issue of Ithala Bank will also top the agenda. For more on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Tim Brauteseth, Chairperson of SCOPA in KZN Provincial Legislature

Five people have been killed in mudslides at Winklespruit near Amanzimtoti, south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. This according to the Provincial Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs. For more on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Nonjabulo Mntungwa Makamu, SABC News Reporter

Deadline for registration of spaza shops and other food handling outlets is drawing near. Business owners are reminded once again to register their businesses before next week Friday (28th of Feb 2025). This to avoid being closed and also to ensure that they are compliant. For more on this, we are joined by…..

GUEST: Velenkosini Hlabisa, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA)

As we’ve seen happening in Cape Town and Stellenbosch, Varsity students are protesting because they cannot register due to historic debt and other financial issues. Today, Wits University students who are on a hunger strike took their protest to the Wits Great Hall earlier as they continue making an impassioned plea to the institution’s management to allow them to register despite their historic debt. For more on this, I am joined on the line by…

GUEST: Lerato Setsiba, Wits Solidarity Sleepover Movement Coordinator

President Cyril Ramaphosa has officially opened the G20 Foreign Ministers Meeting that is currently underway in Nasrec. South Africa hopes to use the G20 deliberations to promote inclusive growth, industrialisation, employment, and the reduction of inequality. For more on this, let’s now cross to……..

GUEST: Sophie Mokoena, SABC News International Editor

Foreign ministers from 19 countries, as well as the European Union and the African Union are meeting in our country today and tomorrow. Their meeting will among other things discuss current global geopolitical dynamics and reflect on South Africa’s G20 Presidency High-Level Deliverables, and the Review of the G20@20, which examines the impact of the G20 during the two decades of its existence. However though, they will have to do this without the group’s richest member, the United States of America. This after the country’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced two weeks ago that he won’t attend this crucial meeting due to Pretoria’s anti-American agenda. But will their absence be felt and just how vital is this meeting for South Africa and the rest of the African continent? For more on this, we are joined by…….

GUEST: Professor Patrick Bond, Political economist and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg

guest: Mzwanele Manyi 

We continue getting reaction to the budget speech being postponed. I am now joined on the line by…

GUEST: Mazwi Blose, EFF MP

We continue getting reaction to the budget speech being postponed. I am now joined on the line by…

GUEST: Karabo KHAKHAU, DA National Spokesperson

For the first time since 1994, the Budget Policy Statement was not delivered due to parties in the executive not agreeing to some issues. We getting reaction from some of the parties in Parliament…

GUEST: Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri, ANC National Spokesperson