The Department of Health in Limpopo has condemned the blocking of a bulk pipeline supplying water to the Saint Rita’s Regional Hospital in Sekhukhune. It is alleged that some community members from Riverside settlement have seized the distribution valves of the pipeline and have permanently closed the supply to the hospital for two weeks now. For more on this, we are joined by….. 

Guest: Neil Shikwambana, Spokesperson for the department of health in Limpopo

Post the ANC’s elective conference in KwaZulu-Natal.Sihle Zikalala has failed to make it into the provincial executive committee. To explain what this means for the former chairperson’s political future in the province is…. 

Guest: Zakhele Ndlovu, political analyst based @UKZN

Tunisians are voting today, in a referendum on a controversial new constitution, which will entrench significant new powers on President Kais Saied. However, some opposition parties in the country have called Saied’s move a coup that risks a return to the kind of autocratic rule that characterised Tunisia before the 2011 Arab spring uprisings. So how significant is today’s referendum vote given the country’s state of affairs?   

Guest: Naeem Jeena, Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre

It will be a busy weekend for the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal as the province elects leaders who will move the party forward. Delegates have started gathering. President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to close the conference on Sunday. KwaZulu-Natal is one of the provinces marred by factional battles among leaders, so how are things looking like on the first day of the conference?

Guest: SABC News Political Reporter, Samkele Maseko.

Finance Minister, Enoch Gogongwana today announced the appointment of the Ntiyiso Consulting group as a partner in the process of turning things around at the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality. The municipality was placed under administration in April after a long period of financial mismanagement and lack of service delivery. Ntiyiso Consulting group will be a National Cabinet Representative, managing the process of turning the municipality around. What exactly does this partnership entail? What should the people of Mangaung expect?

Guest: Miyelani Holeni, Group Chied Advisor at Ntiyiso Consulting Group.

The Police in Limpopo have dispatched maximum resources in the search for three suspects connected to the killing of a Limpopo mayor on Thursday evening. The mayor of the Collins Chabane local municipality in Malamulele, Moses Maluleke was killed during the attack while his 18-year-old son was injured. The ANC Limpopo, this afternoon visited Maluleke’s home, and Richard Shilenge.

Guest: Jimmy Machaka, ANC Limpopo Spokesperson.

President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted his counterpart from Ivory Coast, President Alassane Ouattara this morning. The visit was the second leg of bilateral discussions between the heads of state. The two nations have signed additional agreements to strengthen trade relations in key sectors such as mining and transport.

Guest: SABC News international reporter - Khayelihle Khumalo.

South Africa’s inflation reached a 13-year high in June. Most of the commodities with the sharpest price hikes are basic necessities like bread, electricity, oil, fuel and public transport. The Reserve Bank’s Governor Lesetja Kganyago just announced yet another increase in interest rates (figure to be confirmed). South Africa has an inflation targeting monetary policy, however, as we have seen these price increases aren’t driven by just demand, there are external factors too. Today we ask, is inflation targeting still in the interest of South Africans and how should the state use its power over administered pricing correctly to respond to inflation?

Guest: Chris Malikane, Associate Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance at Wits University as well as Dawie Roodt, Director and Chief Economist at the Efficient Group

Let’s go back to this story we closed the show with yesterday and get more details. Police in Delmas in Mpumalanga arrested two immigrants who were allegedly using a police bakkie as a diesel tanker. Officers were on patrol on the N12 where they pulled over a suspicious bakkie that was heavily loaded. They found 500 litres of diesel in a tank. Police also realised the bakkie was a police vehicle stolen from Thohoyandou in Limpopo.

Guest: Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Brigadier Selvy Mohlala.

The department of health has demoted two officials and given them final written warnings for their involvement in the management of the Digital Vibez Contract. Popo Maja and  Dr Anban Pillay have each been handed a "salary level demotion" for 12 months. Furthermore, Dr Pillay has been suspended for three months without pay.  

Guest: Health Department Spokesperson, Foster Mohale