Former President Jacob Zuma has applied for compassionate leave to attend his brother's burial.

GUEST: Correctional services spokesperson, Singabakho Nxumalo

Yesterday, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence and the Portfolio Committee on Police visited KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng to assess the impact of police and soldiers deployed in the provinces. Post this visit; we are joined by Cedric Florick who is going to share his thoughts on what should happen moving forward…

Guest: National Assembly House Chairperson of Committees, Cedric Florick

The National Prosecuting Authority says they will be opposing bail in the case of former radio DJ Ngizwe Mchunu. Mchunu appeared this morning at the Randburg Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg. His case was postponed to the 28th of July for a formal bail application. On Monday, Mchunu handed himself over to police after a warrant for his arrest was issued for allegedly instigating violence during last week's unrest and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng.

GUEST: National Prosecuting Authority, NPA spokesperson, Advocate Mthunzi Mhaga

Yesterday the High Court in Pretoria dismissed with costs, the EFF's application to have the bank statements of President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign made public. The EFF had approached the court to seek the disclosure of the statements in an application linked to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's invalidated report on the CR17 campaign finances. During the course of that litigation, Gauteng Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba had agreed to a request from Ramaphosa's lawyers for the bank statements to be sealed on the basis that they contained confidential donor information.

GUEST: Head of ANC Presidency, Sibongile Besani

The National Liquor Traders has expressed its deep concern over the recent deaths of three women in Ntabozuko in the Eastern Cape due to drinking illicit, homebrewed alcohol. They are also concerned that communities are increasingly exposed to life-threatening concoctions and unwillingly drawn into the criminal precincts of a now flourishing illegal trade in alcohol. For more on this, we are joined by Lucky Ntimane from the Liquor Traders Association of South Africa

Guest: SABC journalist, Abongile Jantjies

Guest: Lucky Ntimane, National Convener of the Liquor Traders' Association of South Africa

Yesterday, the US military carried out an airstrike against terrorist militants in Somalia. The airstrike targeted al Shabaab fighters in the city of Galkayo which is in the central part of the country on Africa’s east coast. But what informed these airstrikes and why now?

Guest: Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director of the Afro-Middle East Centre

Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke says the upcoming 2021 Local Government Elections will not be free and fair. Releasing a report, on whether the current conditions of Covid-19 are conducive enough to hold free and fair local government elections, Moseneke says the elections must be held not later than February 2022.

GUEST: Siviwe Gwarube, DA National spokesperson

The Electoral Commission today received the final report of the Inquiry into Ensuring Free and Fair Elections during Covid-19 from former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke.

Guest: Electoral Commission of South Africa, Commissioner Mosotho Moepya

The High Court in Pretoria has dismissed with costs, the EFF's application to have the bank statements of President Cyril Ramaphosa's CR17 campaign made public. The EFF had approached the court to seek the disclosure of the statements in an application linked to Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane's invalidated report on the CR17 campaign finances. During the course of that litigation, Gauteng Deputy Judge President Aubrey Ledwaba had agreed to a request from Ramaphosa's lawyers for the bank statements to be sealed on the basis that they contained confidential donor information.

GUEST: Political analyst, Ongama Mtimka

Stats SA has revealed that over 700,000 people died over the last year, as compared to 550,000 the previous year. This is contained in their latest Mid-Year population estimates which show that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted mortality and migration in the country since the start of the pandemic early last year.

Guest: Diego Iturralde, Chief Director for Demographic Analysis @ Stats SA