THE MORNING BRIEF

Guest: Xolani Fihla - JMPD Spokesperson

Duration:00:06:09

World Diabetes Day: Raising awareness for diabetes and aQuellé’s campaign: Together Let’s Beat Diabetes. Encouraging everyone to wear blue.

Guest: Bernice Greyling: part of the Gauteng Marketing team for aQuellé

Duration:00:06:34

The Competition Commission has announced a landmark R688 million Media Support Package over five years, agreed upon with Google and YouTube, to revitalise South Africa’s struggling news sector. The package — unveiled alongside the final report of the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry — aims to support national, community, and vernacular media through funding for content licensing, newsroom innovation, and capacity building.

Guest: Noluthando Jokazi: Competition Commission’s Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry Technical Leads

Duration:00:07:13

Artists United, a creative representative body, has pledged to assist the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) in gathering data on musicians who are still owed royalty payments. This move follows a march to SAMRO’s offices in Braamfontein, where artists and several political parties handed over a memorandum demanding greater transparency, accountability, and leadership reform within the organisation.

Guest: Nomsa Mazwai - Creative Entrepreneur Activist

Duration:00:09:08

There are now reports that influential lobbyists are approaching former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, along with billionaire Patrice Motsepe, to contest the leadership as the race for the ANC presidency in 2027 is rapidly gaining momentum.

Guest: Sandile Swana: Political Analyst

Duration:00:09:17

Yesterday, a chartered flight carrying Palestinians seeking refugee status in South Africa landed at Johannesburg’s O.R Tambo Airport. Gift of the Givers facilitated the humanitarian effort with other civil society partners and will provide further assistance, legal and medical care.

Guest: Imtiaz Sooliman - Chairman and Founder of Gift of The Givers Foundation

Duration:00:06:17

In just four days, five women were brutally murdered in Cape Town—most killed by gunfire. The alarming surge in gun-related femicides has reignited public outrage and renewed calls for urgent government action to curb gun violence and gender-based violence (GBV). According to Gun Free South Africa (GFSA), firearms are now the leading weapon used to kill women in the country, with the proportion of women shot and killed reaching the highest level ever recorded.

Guest: Dr Stanley Maphosa: Gun Free SA (GFSA) executive director

Duration:00:04:48

Bangladesh entered a tense nationwide lockdown Thursday as supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her banned Awami League party protested her ongoing trial for crimes against humanity.

Guest: Cynthia Farid: Research Associate with the Center for Asian Studies in Africa (CASA) at the University of Pretoria

Duration:00:04:50

Despite having some of the most progressive disability rights laws in the world, South Africa continues to lag in implementing them, leaving many persons with disabilities excluded from education, employment, and basic services. Advocates say that while the legislative framework is strong, the lack of meaningful execution undermines progress toward inclusion and equality.

Guest: Phuthi Mabelebele - Chief Director Responsible for Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Dept of Women, Youth & Persons with Disabilities

Duration:00:08:18

Explosive testimony before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has shed further light on the extent of corruption, abuse of power, and criminal collusion allegedly plaguing the Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department (EMPD). Former senior city officials and ex-EMPD leaders have implicated suspended acting head Brigadier Julius Mkhwanazi in a web of unlawful deals and cover-ups linked to accused tender tycoon Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala and a rogue police unit operating within the department.

Guest: Canny Maphanga: SABC Reporter

Duration:00:08:49

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced South Africa’s first adjustment to its official inflation target in 25 years — reducing it from a range of 3%–6% to a fixed target of 3%, with a one percentage point tolerance band.

Guest: Khaya Sithole - Chartered Accountant

Duration:00:08:26

Vodacom has confirmed that it will not be offering Starlink services in South Africa at this stage, despite signing a deal with the SpaceX-owned satellite network to expand broadband access across Africa.

Guest: Jan Vermeulen: Editor, My Broadband

Duration:00:06:16

The United States Navy has announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest and most advanced aircraft carrier, has entered the US Southern Command’s area of responsibility, which spans Latin America and the Caribbean.

Guest: Timothy Walker: Maritime Project Leader & Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies

Duration:00:06:13

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter Agriculture industry gains pace as machinery sales and citrus exports surge 2. Premier eyes more acquisitions as it finalises RFG deal3. Markets

Duration:00:05:29

EFF

The EFF ahead of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement to get the party’s perspectives and expectations. Guest: Omphile Maotwe: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Treasure General

Duration:00:05:11

A recent judgment by the Bloemfontein High Court has clarified a key point of South African law: publicly disclosing someone’s HIV status may constitute a breach of privacy, but not necessarily defamation.

A recent judgment by the Bloemfontein High Court has clarified a key point of South African law: publicly disclosing someone’s HIV status may constitute a breach of privacy, but not necessarily defamation. The ruling arose from a case in which a Numsa union leader revealed a member’s HIV status during a grievance meeting, prompting emotional distress and an initial damages award of R100,000 — later overturned on appeal. Guest: Ulrich Roux: Managing Director: Ulrich Roux & Associates Roux

Duration:00:07:52

The DA ahead of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement to get the party’s perspectives and expectations

The DA ahead of the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement to get the party’s perspectives and expectations. Guest: Dr Mark Burke: Democratic Alliance ( DA) Finance Spokesperson X

Duration:00:04:29

South Africa has launched an investigation after 17 of its citizens, aged between 20 and 39, were found stranded in Ukraine’s war-ravaged Donbas region after allegedly being lured into fighting as mercenaries under false pretences of lucrative jobs.

South Africa has launched an investigation after 17 of its citizens, aged between 20 and 39, were found stranded in Ukraine’s war-ravaged Donbas region after allegedly being lured into fighting as mercenaries under false pretences of lucrative jobs. President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered a probe into how the men were recruited and has vowed to use diplomatic channels to secure their safe return. Guest: Helmoed Heitman: Military And Defense Analyst

Duration:00:07:23

Latest business news with Ntaoleng Lechela - Business Reporter

The unemployment rate eases in Q3 2. Manufacturing output ticks slightly higher in September 3. Markets

Duration:00:04:31

South Africa’s unemployment rate has eased slightly — down to 31.9% in the third quarter, from 33.2% in the previous quarter — offering a glimmer of hope in an economy long burdened by joblessness.