First Take SA

Twenty people have been arrested in Marabastad, Pretoria for contravening immigration laws. The department of labour and home affairs raided the popular market on Monday in a joint operation following reports of criminal activities and lack of compliance with labour and immigration laws. Elvis Presslin spoke to Advocate Fikiswa Mncanca- Bede, Chief Director for Statutory and Advocacy Services at t...

Millions of Kenyans yesterday came out to vote in the country's hotly contested presidential and legislative elections. By 4 pm yesterday the electoral commission announced that over twelve million Kenyans turned out to vote - This equates to at least over 50% of the total 22 million registered voters. Although there are four candidates, there are only two front runners in this presidential race;...

Residents of Kagiso west of Johannesburg are calling on the government to deploy soldiers to clamp down on illegal mining operations in the Westrand. Yesterday disgruntled Kagiso residents took matters into their own hands by dismantling several illegal mining operations in the area. More than 20 illegal miners were caught and stripped naked by residents and rescued by Gauteng police before being...

Lesotho's Government says it is investigating allegations of its nationals committing crimes in South Africa. In an exclusive interview with SABC News, Chief of Staff of the Lesotho Defence Force, Major General Matela Matobakele, says they have been trying to negotiate with South African authorities to hand over the arrested illegal miners whom he says fled to South Africa after committing serious...

Action SA leader Herman Mashaba has come to the defense of the City of Johannesburg MMC for Economic Development Nkululeko Mbundu after he was accused by the Department of Justice of inciting violence against Socio-Economic Rights Institute staff. This week, informal traders represented by the Social Economic Rights Institute (SERI) trading along De Villiers Street accused Mbundu of inciting viole...

Time to take a look at the current top African economic stories with Victor Kgomoesoana, author of  "Africa Is Open For Business" and "Africa Bounces Back". Victor is also the Executive Director for Marketing and Communication at the University of Limpopo

Members of opposition political parties represented in the National Assembly say President Cyril Ramaphosa should be held accountable for the violation of laws pertaining to the theft on his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo, in which he was implicated. Yesterday the DA, EFF, IFP, ATM, UDM, and ACDP held a meeting in Johannesburg to consolidate and strengthen opposition parties' resolve and commitment t...

Members of the Congress of the People (COPE) Constituency Congress Committees in Gauteng have called for the party president, Mosiuoa Lekota, to step down. This was resolved in a July meeting addressing challenges of growth, rebuilding, and renewal in the party. For more on this, Elvis Presslin spoke to COPE's Ekurhuleni Secretary Mxolisi Ntobela

The National Prosecuting Authority's Asset Forfeiture Unit has frozen assets to the tune of R13 million belonging to former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and his co-accused. The move is connected to the Slush Fund corruption case. The restraint order granted by the Gauteng High Court last month was served on Mdluli, former Crime Intelligence supply chain manager Heine Barnard and former c...

Elvis Presslin spoke to Advocate Simba Chitando, a Zimbabwean lawyer, who does high-profile litigation and is registered to practice in South Africa about the ruling issued that foreign nationals without a permanent residence in South Africa will not be admitted and enrolled as practising or non-practising legal practitioners of the High Court

Foreign nationals without a permanent residence in South Africa will not be admitted and enrolled as practicing or non-practicing legal practitioners of the High Court. This after the Constitutional Court upheld that certain sections of the Legal Practice Act were not unconstitutional to the extent that it prohibited non-citizens to be admitted and enrolled as legal practitioners. The applicants,...

The African National Congress (ANC) will be staging a protest at the Krugersdorp Magistrate Court this morning. The party is calling for illegal mines to be shut down following an operation by the South African Police Services to track down illegal miners in Randfontein and Krugersdorp after eight women were brutally raped at an abandoned mine in the area. Over the past weekend, the ANC at its pol...

The family of one of the four people who died during the Tembisa protest yesterday says they are devastated. They say Linda Shabalala was allegedly shot and killed by a police officer. He was shot at a house, a stone's throw away from a municipal property where several buildings and vehicles were torched. Shabalala's sister Beverly Masinga says the 52-year-old was standing inside the yard, where h...

The South African Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) will later today picket at the Atteridgeville Magistrate Court - to raise awareness about Gender-Based Violence within the retail and hospitality sectors. The workers union says thousands of workers (mainly female) in the wholesale, retail, and hospitality sectors are often subjected to harassment and violence by customers, managers, an...

City of Ekurhuleni Executive Mayor Tania Campbell says protests in Tembisa are a plot to destabilize the Democratic Alliance-led coalition. She was briefing members of the Tembisa Community Forum following violent service delivery protests that saw two people killed. Tembisa residents have accused the Mayor of failing to attend a community meeting last week Friday. A municipal building and several...

Gauteng Health whistle-blower Babita Deokaran reportedly raised the alarm on dubious payments from Tembisa Hospital to ANC Ekurhuleni leader Sello Sekhokho, several days before she was killed. Sekhokho allegedly had three companies supplying medical equipment at vastly inflated prices to the hospital. Deokaran reportedly spoke to provincial Health CFO Lerato Madyo about her concerns and Madyo said...

Time to take a look at the current top African economic stories with Victor Kgomoesoana, author of  "Africa Is Open For Business" and "Africa Bounces Back". Victor is also the Executive Director for Marketing and Communication at the University of Limpopo

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the party's national Policy Conference as a resounding success. The ANC concluded its three-day policy conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg at the weekend. Delivering his closing remarks yesterday, Ramaphosa said policy proposals will be placed before ANC branches before being put to the 55th National Conference for adoption. For more on this, Elvis Pressli...

Over 80 suspects have been arrested following a shocking and brutal gang rape and robbery in Krugersdorp, West Village, Johannesburg. Eight women, who were part of a production crew, were shooting a music video when they were reportedly attacked by a gang of illegal miners near a mine dump in West Village - where Zama Zamas are known to operate. More than 80 undocumented suspects are expected to a...

KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Safety and Community Liaison Neliswa Nkonyeni says a team of detectives has been formed to investigate the mass shooting at a tuck shop in Savannah Park at Mariannhill. Seven people died on the scene and one died later in hospital. SAPS in Kwazulu-Natal has now started a program to visit all alcohol outlets across the province to check if they have the necessary licenses. Elv...

The ANC's Regional Deputy Chairperson In Ekurhuleni, Jongizizwe Dlabathi says the step side rule seems to want to overshadow critical discussions around organizational renewal. This as the party's sixth Policy Conference will officially kick off today in Nasrec, Johannesburg. The conference is a prelude to the ruling party's 55th National Elective Conference, which will take place in December. Ove...

Trade union NUMSA's Regional Secretary in the Western Cape, Vuyo Lufele, says the union's national congress which is being held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, should be declared null and void. This comes after the Labour Court in Johannesburg dismissed the union's application for leave to appeal against the court's decision which interdicted the congress from going ahead. For mo...

Time to take a look at the current top African economic stories with Victor Kgomoesoana, author of  "Africa Is Open For Business" and "Africa Bounces Back". Victor is also the Executive Director for Marketing and Communication at the University of Limpopo

Action SA councilors in the KwaDukuza Municipality North of Durban have opened a case of assault and intimidation against the ANC in the council. This was after an altercation among some councilors that led to the collapse of the council meeting. The meeting was to debate a motion to remove the ANC mayor and speaker. Elvis Presslin spoke to ActionSA national chairperson, Michael Beaumont

Former SAA board chair, Dudu Myeni has been sentenced to five years by the Johannesburg Magistrate's court for defeating the administration of justice or pay a 120-thousand rand fine. Half of the fine has been suspended, provided she does not repeat the same offense within the next five years. Myeni pleaded guilty to defying an order by the Chairperson of the State Capture Commission, Raymond Zond...