This is why the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT) has awarded its New Frontiers Research Award for 2026 to mycologist Professor Cobus Visagie, an associate professor at the Forestry and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute. To tell us more on the award, his research and the field of mycology is…

Guest: Professor Cobus Visagie, an associate professor at the Forestry and Agriculture Biotechnology Institute.

Shops reportedly belonging to foreign nationals have been looted in Estcourt, KZN today. SABC News reporter, Dries Liebenberg, was on the ground and now joins me on the line to tell us what happened…

GUEST: Dries Liebenberg, SABC News Reporter

The Supreme Court of Appeal heard former Zambian President, Edgar Lungu’s family’s appeal against the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria’s judgment, which found that Zambia is entitled to repatriate Lungu’s remains for the purposes of a State funeral and burial. Let’s get more details on what happened in court today with…

GUEST: Masiteng Makgala, SABC News Reporter

The South African Communist Party (SACP) has convened in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg for Conference of the Left. We catch up with SABC reporter to speak more on the conference, and issues that arose in the lead up to today’s sitting

Guest: Ntebo Mkobo – SABC Reporter

KZN SAPS held a media briefing this afternoon following the looting of alleged foreign owned shops in Escourt this morning. We hear more from…

GUEST: Colonel Robert Netshiunda - KZN SAPS Spokesperson

Today, Rand Water began a massive maintenance project affecting Johannesburg’s water systems. This will also affect water supplies to hospitals in Gauteng. Gauteng Department of Health spokesperson Steve Mabona joins me on the line to outline provisions put in place by the department during the water maintenance period.

GUEST: Steve Mabona, Gauteng Department of Health Spokesperson

From today until Sunday 31 May 2026, South African organisations of the left will be at the Birchwood Hotel, in Boksburg, for a national Conference of the Left, convened under the theme “Building a Left Movement for Working Class and Popular Power”. The ANC has however, decided it won’t be part of the conference. 

GUEST: Professor Bheki Mngomezulu, Political Analyst from the Nelson Mandela University

The chief whip of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party in the National Assembly, Mmabatho Mokoena, has been arrested on fraud charges. Mokoena appeared before the Cape Town Magistrates Court today and was released on R30 000 bail.  

GUEST: Sibonelo Nomvalo, MK Party Secretary-General

As we observe World Blood Cancer we are reminded that more than one South African is diagnosed with blood cancer every hour, over 21,000 people are currently living with the disease, and nearly 5,000 die from it each year. This afternoon we take a moment to understand this type of cancer…

Guest: Palesa Mokomele – Head of Community Engagement and Communications at DKMS Africa

The US military has carried out strikes on Iran, targeting a military site in Bandar Abbas, a strategic port city. In response, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted a US air base, without providing details of its location.

GUEST: Na’eem Jeenah, Senior Researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection at the University of the Witwatersrand