According to the South African Weather Services, damaging waves and winds have been forecast between Port Edward and Cape St. Lucia today. As a result, a yellow level one warning has been issued for the KZN coastline. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has placed its disaster management teams on standby and calls on the public to follow the instructions of officials regarding the use of the beach. To get an update on this, we are joined by...

Guest: Siboniso Mngadi - Media Liaison Officer for the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in Kwa-Zulu Natal

GUEST: Sudipto Moitra, General Manager for ICT, MTN Enterprise Business Unit @MTN SA

There has been a rise in corpses that have not been claimed or identified in KZN. Over 1500 corpses have been unclaimed and unidentified, some dating back to 2017. Ordinarily, a corpse should not be in a mortuary longer than 30 days and decaying bodies pose a health risk to workers. There is also a shortage in storage facilities and refrigerators are being used to store the influx of decaying bodies. To unpack what measures will be put in place to address this and how the public can go about claiming their loved ones, we are joined by....

Guest: Dr. Sibongiseni Dhlomo - Deputy Minister of Health

As part of our #HeritageMonth2023, we unpack the importance of cultural heritage within the protected areas of national parks. National Parks work alongside communities to manage access to heritage sites such as memorials. National Parks are also responsible for assessing and curatoring artefacts that form part of the museums within protected areas. Researchers at these parks are also looking into the impact of climate change on the preservation of heritage. To share more on this, we are joined by...

Guest: Dr Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu - - Manager for Archaelogy at SANPARKS

The Democratic Alliance says it plans to lay a complaint with the Human Rights Commission over the South African Social Security Agency’s continuous failure to pay social grant beneficiaries on time. The party is also disturbed by reports that suggest that the department of social development has returned billions of social relief of distress grants to the national treasury over the last financial year despite the disastrous economic climate. For more on this, we are joined by….

GUEST: Bridget Masango, DA Shadow Minister of Social Development

We are coming to you live from the Kruger National Park where SANPARKS will commemorate the 18th South African National Parks Week. The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, has urged the public to make use of the free access to the national parks. The week aims to highlight the importance of our communities accessing the cultural heritage and biodiversity on offer within these protected areas. To help us set the scene, we are joined by...

Guest: Hilda Mthimunye - Senior Manager of Enterprise Development under the Department of Socio-Economic Transformation at SANPARKS

President Cyril Ramaphosa is currently in New York for the annual high-level segment of the United Nations General Assembly that will focus attention on the world’s development agenda while grappling with pressing geo-political issues. For more on the UN Assembly and Ramaphosa’s programme, let’s now cross live to ……

GUEST: Sherwin Bryce-Pease, SABC News Correspondent based in New York

 Co-host: Desiree Chauke

Today was the final day of the BRICS Future Skills Challenge that was held at the Nasrec Expo Centre. Central to this year's gathering was the issue of skills development challenges facing BRICS partner countries. To give us more details in terms of the discussions that took place in order to address this issue is......

GUEST: Mapule Ncanywa, Chairperson of the BRICS Business Council Skills Group

This morning, a second fire broke out at a hijacked building in Marshalltown. This fire takes place less than a month after a fire claimed the lives of 77 people. So far, no fatalities or injuries have been reported as many of the tenants have been evacuated. Earlier this week, Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi announced the terms of reference for the Commission of Inquiry into the Marshalltown fire at the Usindiso Building. Our next guest unpacks if the Commission's terms of reference will bring accountability, and if the Commission will address the housing crisis in the central business district. We are joined by...

Guest: Dr. Msizi Myeza - Chief Executive Officer: Council For the Built Environment