Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Earth Hour is the annual campaign calling on South Africans to switch the lights off - but Eskom's already doing that! That's the view of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) around the country's energy challenges. This year, the global campaign to raise awareness about climate change wants to focus on switching to renewa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - The Democratic Alliance (DA) says the failing of several municipalities in the province and issues around funding at universities - is not being given enough attention. This following the KwaZulu-Natal State of the Province Address delivered by Premier - Sihle Zikalala at the Royal Show Grounds in Pietermaritzburg yesterday. Zi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - Durban Metro Police have been applauded for the swift arrest of a man at Chatsworth south of Durban, who was allegedly in possession of drugs with a street value of R15 million. The suspect was arrested at a tavern where police seized mandrax tablets from the man's car. Working on further information, police then drove t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - The Durban beachfront is expected to come alive in a shade of orange as the Durban chapter of civil rights group, Amnesty International, will hold an awareness march on this Sunday on International Women's Day. Secretary of the Amnesty International Durban Group - Paksini Govender, says the focus will be on empowering wo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Traditional approaches to higher education are becoming irrelevant in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). That's according to Durban Professor Yusuf Karodia, who has recently been voted Africa's greatest visionary in the development of higher education by the African Leadership Magazine. Speaking to Newsbreak ab...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - A man in his thirties has been shot dead and another injured during an armed robbery near a mall in Umlazi, south-west of Durban. That's according to spokesperson for local security company PT Tactical - Dhevan Govindasamy. It's believed that the men were on their way to the mall yesterday when they were shot by unknown suspect...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - Good news now for motorists, who will breathe a collective sigh of relief following the decrease in the price of petrol at midnight last night. All grades of petrol will go down by 19-cents a litre, diesel by 54-cents a litre and illuminating paraffin users will pay 91-cents less. The drop in fuel prices has been attributed to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - A Durban-based NGO has been ranked in the top 100 "Think Tanks" worldwide for a 10th consecutive year. The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) works through-out Africa to bring creative solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on the continent. These include conflict resolution, peaceful tra...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by SABC News Journalist, Minoshni Pillay - Lectures at the University of Zululand remain suspended. Yesterday protesting students torched a police vehicle. Among students' concerns are issues around funding and safety on campus. Director of Communications at UniZulu, Gcina Nhleko-Mdluli, says while there have been no further incidents this morning, University manage...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The South African Medical Association is making an urgent call to doctors to assist in identifying all institutions which pose security risks. This follows a story Newsbreak brought to you this morning, whereby an alleged severe attack was made on a gynaecologist at Shifa Private Hospital at Overport in Durban. It's believed t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - As the deadly corona virus wrecks havoc in over 70 countries around the world with over 3,000 deaths reported worldwide, India has stayed relatively unscathed. With two new cases reported today, one in the nation's capital and the other in Telangana, the total count of confirmed cases of the coronavirus has now gone up to six....

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - A security guard has been shot dead at Greyville Racecourse in Durban this morning. According to police a group of about five armed suspects entered the racecourse. The 48-year-old security guard sustained a single gunshot would to chest and died on scene. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala says a case of...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi -The Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal says they have solutions to issues affecting the province - which they will present in the SOPA tomorrow. This is according to DA KZN spokesperson on Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Mbali Ntuli. She says the DA expects the premier to provide tangible solutions to rooting ou...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Political killings, municipalities under administration, health and education should form the focal point of the KwaZulu-Natal State of the Province Address (SOPA) to be delivered by Premier Sihle Zikahlala tomorrow. Senior Programs Officer at the Democracy Development Program, Brian Mhlongo, says rural spaces in the province sho...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Meanwhile, the management of Shifa Private Hospital has released a statement following the assault of the doctor at that medical facility. Salma Patel reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has condemned the alleged severe attack of a gynaecologist at Shifa Private Hospital at Overport in Durban. It's believed that family members of a patient who died following surgery at the hospital brutally attacked the doctor, leaving her in a critical condition. SAMA KZN chairpers...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Matthew Veeran - A memorial service has been held to pay tribute to the more than 646 people who perished with the SS Mendi. On 21 February 1917 a large cargo steamship, the Darro, collided with the SS Mendi in the English Channel south of the Isle of Wight. The Mendi sank killing 646 people, most of whom were Indian-origin South African troop...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Unpublished lyrics by the late Tamil philosopher and movie maker, Kannadasan is to be given new life by South African musician Segai Kistan. Kiston has nurtured a close relationship with Kannadasan's son Gandhi - who approached him to develop music for the lyrics for an album to be released. Kiston says this is a great honour for...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Dealing with warning signs BEFORE a marriage is fundamental to ensuring proper conflict management in a relationship. This is according to Durban clinical psychologist Dr Sherona Rawat. She was speaking following the shocking murder of a Tongaat woman, allegedly at the hands of her husband on Sunday morning. Murder suspect Denver...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - A newly-recruited police officer - died in hospital early this morning after he allegedly shot himself at his home at Chatsworth, south of Durban. Chatsworth Community Policing Forum chairperson, Jakes Singh says it is sad that such a young life was lost. However, he says that trauma counselling, debriefing and general psychologi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - International vehicle safety organisation "Global New Car Assessment Programmed (NCAP) " has undertaken various tests which prove there are double-standards when it comes to car safety levels in Africa. This follows shocking crash tests which they say show that a local South African made bakkie's safety performance is vastly i...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - At least eight bodies have been discovered in Verulam and surrounds, north of Durban, over the past 10 days. Kangaroo-court justice could be the suspected cause for this spike in deaths, according to Prem Balram spokesperson for a local private security company. Earlier this morning the unidentified body of a man with multiple...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Meanwhile, chairperson of the Tongaat Community Forum, Nazir Sadack says the community are shocked and are in disbelief regarding what happened...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Police have detained murder suspect Denver Marimuthoo in connection with the alleged killing of his wife Roxanne from Tongaat, north of Durban. On Sunday morning, the body of Roxanne was found with multiple stab wounds, lying in a pool of blood. A manhunt then ensued for the suspect. Ismail Mitha, chairperson of local non-profit...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Tributes continue to pour in for legendary playwright and performer, Clinton Marius. Born in KwaZulu-Natal, Marius recently moved to Knysna in the Western Cape where he passed away yesterday following heart surgery at the age of 53. Lotus FM drama producer and close friend of Marius, Raeesa Mahomed, described his well known dr...