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By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - As South Africa battles a rise in covid-19 infections, experts are calling for tighter lockdown measures to be implemented as a matter of urgency. In the last seven days the country recorded well over 20 thousand infections. The National Coronavirus Command Council will be locked in a meeting today with President Cyril Ramaphosa on the country's response to t...

By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - City Power has launched an investigation into the deaths of a Johannesburg couple who were allegedly electrocuted in their home at the weekend. The bodies of the newly-weds, 28-year-old Zaheer Sarang and 24-year-old Nabeelah Khan, were found inside their bathroom at Cosby, in Mayfair. City Power spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, says an investigation in underway f...

By Newsbreak Senior Producer Genevieve Lanka - The Democracy Development Programme has raised concerns about a new initiative launched by the Institute of Race Relations. The IRR initiative is aimed at exposing what it calls race hustlers, who they accuse of exploiting and profiting from exaggerated claims about racism The Institute says the initiative is based on findings from a survey commission...

By Newsbreak Producer Genevieve Lanka - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has launched a new initiative aimed at exposing what it calls "race hustlers" and debunking what the quote, unquote "myths" around racism in the country. The initiative is based on findings from a survey commissioned at the end of 2020, which show that 3-point-3 percent of South Africans regard racism as one of the bigge...

By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - A recent report by the National Automobile Dealers' Association (NADA) has found that South African motorists are neglecting to service their cars - in turn affecting warranties and other vehicular obligations. NADA represents all franchised new-car dealers in the country and also works to develop data on the retail automobile industry. With the COVID-19 pand...

By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - A Durban private hospital has become the first facility to install UV C and UV A lights as a means for disinfection, air-cleaning and lighting. The Ahmed Al Kadi Private Hospital has installed these lights in their ICU, High Care, isolation wards and at the Emergency Department Entrance. Sister Prabha Lakshman, the Infection Prevention Practitioner (IP...

By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - As the country commemorates the contributions made by the youth of 1976, the Phoenix Crisis Centre, north of Durban, will host their "Young Lives Matter" campaign at Mount Edgecombe. The campaign brings awareness to the various social ills affecting youth - specifically suicide and bullying. So in today's Youth Month Focus, we speak to Chairperson for the Pho...

By Newsbreak Senior Producer Genevieve Lanka - The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has described newly appointed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his coalition government as a 'remarkable feat', despites its thin majority. Israel's parliament approved the formation of Bennetts coalition government, ending twelve years of rule by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Board'...

By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - More than 235-thousand members from the Public Servants Association (PSA) will this week take part in a vote on whether or not to go on a nationwide strike. This comes after civil servants, including teachers and health workers, have been locked in wage discussions with government for the past few months, with little sign that they are getting any closer to a...

by Newsbreak Talk Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - How the eldlerly need to be protected? What are their rights? How do the elderly safeguard their assets? All this and more on Newsbreak Talk this Sunday afternoon

By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Over the last year, the Association for the Aged in Durban has dealt with three different cases of fraud relating to senior citizens. This shocking statistic comes just a day before World Elderly Abuse Awareness Day. There is growing concern about senior citizens being short changed by family and friends who collect their social grants. In bigger cases,...

By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Legal expert Saber Ahmed Jazbhay explains that the elderly can easily seek legal advise, to ensure that all their finances can be lawfully managed as per their consent...

By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating a case of murder after the body of a woman was found on Tottenham Road in Ottawa, north of Durban yesterday afternoon. The victim, believed to be in her twenties, was found with a stab wound to the right side of her chest and blunt force trauma to her face. It's believed the woman was also raped. Prem Balram, spokespers...

By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Corruption has always been a buzzword in South Africa. Over the years, media houses, civil society organisations and commissions have shed light on mass corruption in the public sector, but not much of what exists in the private sector. Following the announcements by government to allow up to 100 megawatts of private power supply without a licence and that 5...

By #NewsbreakTalk Presenter and Producer, Taresh Harreepershad. Independent power producers will now be allowed to generate up to 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity- following the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that Schedule Two of the Electricity Regulation Act will be ammended. And now, a private consortium will own the majority stake in South African Airways. Are these bold steps goin...

By Newsbreak Producer, Matthew Veeran. Two Isipingo community members are offering a R10,000 cash reward for the arrest and conviction of criminals - relating to murthis and other religious items being stolen from the Platt Drive temple, south of Durban. Recently, Newsbreak spoke to the South African Hindu Maha Sabha - who detailed what they described as a concerning rise criminals targeting relig...

By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi. Humanitarian organisation the Gift of the Givers expects to hot water in a couple of hours. They have been drilling for water through a borehole since early this morning at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Gauteng. This is part of their water relief aid drive. Founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman says they were approached by the Helen Joseph Hospital and the Rahima Moosa Moth...

By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Basic Education has refuted claims that a learner from a primary school in Durban died after working on an experiment that he was instructed to undertake by the school. Revan Naicker, a Grade 7 learner from Effingham Heights Primary School in Durban sustained severe burns earlier this month after he set sanitiser alight. He died t...

By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Working together with Food for Life in Newlands, in Durban, the Sibaya Community Trust has committed to building a fully-functional and operational kitchen. The project will have the capacity to produce 12-thousand plates of food, daily, which will be distributed to vulnerable, indigent families and reach out to many surrounding regions. The official opening...

By Newsbreak Producer Genevieve Lanka - A man is expected to appear in court soon in connection with yesterday's hostage drama in the Durban CBD. The man who is believed to be a retired security force member allegedly threatened a manager in the Government Employee Pension Fund office on the 13th floor of a building in Anton Lembede Street. A firearm was visible on the man's body during the 2 hour...

By Newsbreak Producers Taliesha Naidoo and Matthew Veeran - The National Institute of Communicable Diseases says South Africa has technically entered its third wave of the pandemic. This after the NICD revealed that the seven day moving average of almost six-thousand cases now exceeds the threshold set by the Health Department. The NICD, says seven-thousand-300 people are currently being treated f...

By Newsbreak Producer Genevieve Lanka - Energy expert Ted Blom has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement that NERSA's licensing threshold for embedded generation projects will be increased from 10 to 100 Megawatts. Blom says the move will help protect businesses that have been hard hit by load shedding. The President says his government is taking steps to ensure the end of load sheddin...

By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - What does the new amendment of schedule two of the Electricity Regulation Act mean for smaller businesses? According to Head of Alternative Energy Solutions at FNB - Kyle Durham - the legislation will relax regulations regarding alternate energy solutions...

By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - This Youth Month, Poetry Africa are calling on talented South Africans between the ages of 14 and 35 to submit poems in commemoration of the Soweto Uprising's 45th anniversary. The competition, held in partnership with the University of KwaZulu-Natal's (UKZN's) Centre for Creative Arts will see the top entrants pick up a cash prize and also get the chance to...

By Newsbreak Producer Genevieve Lanka - South Africans have shed some light on how load-shedding has affected them. Here's what they had to say...