Earlier today, medical doctors took to the streets of Pietermaritzburg to protest the healthcare crisis and unemployment in the sector. The demonstration started at the UNISA campus and ended at the offices of the provincial Department of Health where they handed over a memorandum to the MEC and where the Deputy Minister of Health listened to the concerns raised. To help us unpack the concerns of healthcare unions on this matter, we are joined by...

Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu - Provincial Chairperson of the Public Servants Association of South Africa in KZN

South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation says a proposed new Bill calling for the review of America's bilateral relations with South Africa will not pass. US law makers submitted a bill before Congress to review relations between Washington and Pretoria after South Africa hauled Israel before the International Court of Justice for acts of genocide against Palestinians. To unpack this for us is….

GUEST: Gideon Chitanga, PhD Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States

Accused number 2 in the Senzo Meyiwa case, Bongani Ntanzi has been accused of fabricating evidence to suit his version of events. Ntanzi is being cross-examined at the High Court in Pretoria on his allegations that he was assaulted and tortured by the police following his arrest. Ntanzi and four others are accused of the murder of the Bafana Bafana Captain who was shot and killed in 2014. State Prosecutor Ronnie Sibanda says the vehicle tracking data does not support Ntanzi's version that he was assaulted near a dumping site in Soweto. SABC News reporter, Pearl Magubane

GUEST: Patricia De Lille, Minister of Tourism

The Robin Hood Foundation started after a mother had discovered that she could donate her daughter's secondhand clothing to new mothers in hospital. Their first Baby Bag initiative were to mothers at the St Mary's Hospital back in 2006. This year, the initiative supported new mothers at the King Edward's Hospital. Our next guest and her team of 50 volunteers have been have expanded their projects to include the most vulnerable groups in society for the past 19 years. To tell us more about their initiative -The Baby Bag project, we are joined by... 

Guest: Cindy Norscott - Chairperson and Founder of Robin Hood Foundation 

Last night during the State of the Nation Address, The President mentioned SANRAL's multi-million-rand priority projects in the Eastern Cape, the Msikaba and Mtentu bridges which are already in construction and will be among the highest bridges in Africa once completed. He further mentioned that in the past five years, SANRAL, which manages nearly 25,000 km of roads, has awarded more than 1,200 projects to the value of R120 billion. We are joined by…

GUEST: Reginald Demana - SANRAL Chief Executive Office

The KZN Department of Basic Education has now said that the contracts of at least 27 employees working as deputy directors, assistant directors and administration clerks in the national school nutrition programme (NSNP) in the province will not be renewed.

Guest: Mlungisi Ndlovu - KZN Public Servants Association Provincial Manager

guest: Cllr Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku

Post President Felix Tshisekedi’s re-election, things don’t seem to get better in the towns and villages surrounding the City of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to several reports, locals say the deadly unrest has worsened in recent weeks as thousands of people are fleeing their homes. The renewed fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 rebels has displaced at least 150,000 people, more than half of them children since the beginning of this month. For more analysis on what’s happening in the DRC, we are joined by….

GUEST: Professor Chris Isike, Professor of African Politics and International Relations in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria

Following the dismissal of the Democratic Alliance’s case against the City of Johannesburg and Council. We hear from the Executive Mayor of Johannesburg Kabelo Gwamanda who has welcomed the High Court’s ruling. The DA had gone to court to challenge the City of Johannesburg's council decision to reappoint Floyd Brink as the City manager.

GUEST: Cllr Kabelo Gwamanda, Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg