The Special Investigating Unit (SIU), has granted an order to freeze R22 million held in bank and investment accounts linked to Digital Vibes. The SIU say they will approach the Special Tribunal to have the Covid-19 media campaign contract irregularly awarded by Health Department to Digital Vibes declared unlawful and invalid.

GUEST: Mr Kaizer Kganyago, Spokesperson for the Special Investigating Unit (the SIU)

There are reportedly delays in autopsies in Gauteng. One of our listeners Langa Prince Zitha, has been waiting for almost 2 weeks for an autopsy to be conducted on his brother's wife Nomonde Theresa Zitha.

GUEST: Langa Prince Zitha, a relative to the deceased Nomonde Theresa Zitha, who is his brother's wife

The African Christian Democratic Party has noted with concern the directive issued by the department of employment and labour recently – which affords employers discretion to make vaccination compulsory in the workplace. They are arguing that this directive will open the floodgates for the violation of fundamental constitutional rights of employees, particularly those who object to vaccinations on medical and religious grounds.
Guest: Wayne Thring, ACDP & Deputy President

World News: While the 2014-2016 deadly Ebola outbreaks in West Africa devastated lives and wrecked health services, it also offered pivotal lessons in outbreak control. This is the view of the World Health Organization. When the virus re-erupted in Guinea in mid-February this year, neighbouring countries were quick to ramp up readiness to tackle potential cross-border infection. WHO has since helped governments in the region to institute actions to prevent the spill-over of the Ebola disease. To discuss this further, we are joined on the line by…
Guest: Dr Steven Shongwe, WHO Representative in Sierra Leone

World News: On World News today we ask, How bad is Zimbabwe’s economic situation? We look at the World Bank’s economic and social update report which suggests that almost half of Zimbabwe’s population fell into extreme poverty between 2011 and 2020.
Guest: Godfrey Kanyeze, Director of Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe

The National Ports Authority is to become an independent subsidiary of Transnet with its own board. This was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa this morning. He says the creation of the entity will allow the port authority to make its own investment decisions and ensure that it treats all terminal operators fairly and equally. He says this is part of government’s efforts to accelerate economic structural reforms. President Ramaphosa added that Transnet will invest R100 billion over the next 5 years to modernise ports...

GUEST: Dr. Bheki Mfeka, the Director of SE Advisory

Working on Fire teams together with Sarah Baartman District Municipality and other relevant stakeholders are still trying to combat the Tsitsikamma fire in the Eastern Cape that started yesterday. To give us the latest in terms of what’s happening now is…
Guest: Nthabiseng Mokone, Working on Fire (WoF) Communications Manager

Dr Angelique Coetzee explains why SAMA is calling for stricter lockdown measures. Coetzee believes that things are getting out of hand and the NCCC may have waited too long to implement stringent lockdown measures. She joins us now to elaborate further…
Guest: Dr Angelique Coetzee, Chairperson of the South African Medical Association

Personnel from military health services have been deployed at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic hospital in Soweto today to assist with the treatment of Covid-19 patients. For more on the operations we're joined on the line by...
GUEST: General Mafi Mgobhozi, Spokesperson of the South African National Defence Force, SANDF

The HAWKS say they will not comment on speculations that Malawian self-proclaimed prophet, Chipiloro Gama - commonly known as Shepherd Bushiri was in the country and has once again evaded arrest. Bushiri and his wife, Mary, fled South Africa shortly after they were released on R200,000 bail each in their money laundering and fraud case. The City Press reported that South Africa's security agencies are investigating credible claims that fugitive prophet has been in the country several times since his dramatic escape last year. Earlier my producers spoke to Wapona Kita, the Malawian lawyer of self-proclaimed prophet, Shepherd Bushiri who dismissed the allegations as untrue.

GUEST: Terrance Baloyi, the South African lawyer of self-proclaimed prophet, Shepherd Bushiri