First Take SA

Some political parties in parliament have expressed mixed views about the defacing of the statue of Louis Botha outside Parliament. Botha is an Afrikaner and former first Prime Minister of the then Union of South Africa that was established in 1910 after the second world war. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent reports

South African youth like any other young people across the world are facing the challenge of being recruited by Islamic States of Iraq and Syria,ISIS. State Security minister David Mahlobo has assured South Africans that they are safe from any form of terrorism. This after a 15-year-old school girl from Cape Town was taken off a flight to Johannesburg by police who suspected that she was going to...

COSATU special Central Executive Committee has served Zwelinzima Vavi with divorce papers following his announcement that he will be boycotting the federations meetings. The decision was announced earlier today at a media briefing after the Cosatu leadership decided Vavi had acted improperly by refusing to attend meetings and failing to endorse the expulsion of Numsa, the federations largest affil...

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Nestle SA holds exclusive rights to the shape of its Kit Kat chocolate. South African courts recognised the trademark over the shape, forcing a competitor to recall its chocolates which have a similar shape. The Constitutional Court refused to step into the fray, meaning that a recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment holds sway. Senior Constitutional Court reporter, Candice Nolan has the details

Two men, wrongfully convicted for the 2002 murder of an off duty policeman, have just been released from Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria. The Constitutional Court ordered their immediate release from prison after overturning their convictions and life imprisonment terms. The men had been convicted solely on the basis of the say-so of their fellow accused with no other evidence linkin...

News and Current Affairs show between 5 & 6 am on SAfm 104 to 107 anchored by Tsepiso Makwetla

A meeting of all stakeholders of the University of Cape Town is expected to be held in a couple of hours to decide the future of a Cecil John Rhodes statue. The meeting will also discuss transformation at the institution. UCT Vice-Chancellor, Max Price says decisions coming out of the meeting will culminate in a proposal to the university council. A group of students has been occupying the main ad...

Independent Police Investigative Directorate IPID Head Robert Mcbride was suspended yesterday, following a notice of suspension that was served on him by Mnister of Police, Nkosinathi Nlheko. An urgent interdict McBride sought last week, to prevent his suspension from Ipid, was struck off the roll in the High Court in Pretoria. It's all about the ongoing debacle surrounding an investigation into t...

A Cape Town family is in limbo despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court which effectively allows the foreign spouse to remain in South Africa. The Department of Home Affairs lost a costly appeal over its attempt to prevent a Zimbabwean man from re-entering the country. But his residency status remains uncertain

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South Africa's national cricket team will take on co-hosts New Zealand for a place in the final of the 2015 Cricket World Cup on in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Following their clinical nine-wicket victory over Sri lanka in last week's quarter-final, Proteas skipper AB de Villiers says the team is oozing confidence before this clash at Eden Park, despite having been knocked out by the Kiwis...

Lawyers for Human Rights have approached the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, asking that it removes obstacles which make it difficult for orphaned refugee children to be granted asylum. The Refugee Act does not include orphans in its definition of dependants for purposes of seeking asylum. This means that their aunts or uncles first have to be declared their legal guardians before they can a...

The trial of tennis doubles champion, Bob Hewitt has been postponed to next month. Earlier Hewitt was found guilty on two charges of rape and one of sexual assault. He's been granted 10 thousand rand bail in the Palm Ridge magistrates court, east of Johannesburg.

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The Constitutional Court has sanctioned an agreed timetable for the finalisation of the tender process for the multi-billion rand social grant system. In April last year the court ordered the rerun of the tender after it found the tender awarded to Cash Paymaster Service was unlawful. CPS wanted to challenge the new Request for Proposals. But before the matter could be heard, the Social Security A...

A third man convicted for the 2002 murder of a police officer will finally have his conviction reconsidered by the Constitutional Court. In May last year, the Constitutional Court rejected Thembekile Molaodzi's appeal because he failed to raise any constitutional grounds. But in a lucky strike, Moloadzi's case will be reconsidered after two others convicted for the same crime raised a constitution...

PM Live host Bongi Gwala speaks to Institute for Security Studies's Jacques Marais on Robert Mcbride's lawyers have told the High Court in Pretoria that a Parliamentary process should be the only way to suspend head of IPID to ensure independence

The funeral of murder hip hop icon, Nkululeko "Flabba" Habedi will take place on Sunday at the Alexandra Stadium, north of Johannesburg. The award winning rapper was stabbed to death allegedly by his girlfriend. Earlier this week, hundreds of fans paid respect to the Skwatta Kamp member at his memorial service in Newtown. Today we pay Tribute to the hip-Hop star featuring some of his closest frien...

Entrerprises Minister Lynne Brown has confirmed that she approved the suspension of four senior Eskom Executives by the utility's board. Brown says she's hopeful that the inquiry into Eskom will help put to rest, all the concerns about the running of the utility. I earlier spoke to the minister and first asked her if she was consulted before the decision was taken.

Grocery chain, Shoprite Checkers, has to convince the Constitutional Court that its grocers wine licence constitutes a property right and that the Eastern Cape government did not have sufficient reason to take it away. The provincial government's new liquor law effectively bans the sale of table wines inside grocery stores. If retailers like Shoprite want to continue selling those table wines they...

We attempt to help Leon Bester get his money back for items bought online but were never delivered. We Speak to online ombuds on what to look out for when shopping online.

A bitter court battle is looming against the world's third largest platinum producer, Lonmin Platinum Mine and the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Council over a R600 million rand equity deal closed in December 2014. This comes after Chairperson of a local Community Based Organisation, Kholisile Dingiswayo announced plans to approach the North West High Court, through the University of Western Cape's L...

Deputy Chief Justice, Dikgang Moseneke, has lamented the slow pace of rural land reform in South Africa. The Deputy Chief Justice participated in a dialogue on land reform last friday. The inaugural dialogue series was launched at the Womens Jail on Constitution Hill. It is hosted by the Centre for Law and Society in partnership with Heinrich Boll Stiftung

Benny Obayi contacted VIP movers to help him relocate from Eastern Cape to Gauteng. VIP Movers could not help after payment was made and Benny wanted his money back