First Take SA

Cape Town Mayor, Patricia de Lille, has expressed her disappointment after the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was suspended.

Former President FW de Klerk, who received a Nobel Peace Prize together with late President Nelson Mandela in 1993, has lashed out at government after the suspension of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace laureates in Cape Town.

The KwaZulu-Natal government has set aside 30-million rand to weed-out wild life attacks on the poverty stricken community of Ukhukho area in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal. This after the public Protector launched investigations after five residents were killed by wild animals belonging to the Hluhluwe Mfolozi game reserve.

Phindile Tlou has contacted Speak Out to tell us that she has, for nearly three years, been paying for a service she has not been receiving. This is her story….

In July this year we brought you a complaint by Emerald Kunene who had paid Eskom to install an electricity prepaid metre at his Umgababa South Coast home in KwaZulu Natal. But after paying R3900 in March he did not hear anything from the company and when he made enquiries he was sent from pillar to post.

HIGHER Education Minister Blade Nzimande has likened the North West University to an apartheid enclave.

Municipal buildings, ANC regional offices and fire engines were set alight earlier today in Kirkwood. Shops were looted and shots were fired by owners to protect their property. Stones and rubble are strewn all over and the town is covered in smoke. Some schools had been evacuated as residents marched into town to voice their demands over service delivery issues.

Two of the 25 people admitted at Pretoria's Steve Biko Academic hospital after arriving back from Nigeria, have been placed on the critical list.

Tshwane university of technology spokesperson, Willa De Ruyte on the strike.

Dr Blade Nzimande responds to NSFAS saying the demand for funding far exceeds the one billion rand allocated this year by the Department of Higher Education and Training.

Police Minster, Nkosinathi Nhleko and the National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega announced the country's crime statistics in Pretoria today.

Unauthorised deductions by unscrupulous companies have become a major problem for South African consumers. Speak Out is often flooded with complaints involving illegal debits. Two months ago we broadcast the story of Mosupulogo Koka from Moletji in Limpopo who shared his story about a company known as Student Forum which is operating under a business known as Corporate People. They had been deduct...