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SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producers Hoosen Ebrahim and Matthew Veeran - Cell-phone manufacturers globally have envisaged 2020 as the year of the much-anticipated foldable smart-phone. Expected to take the world by storm when first released by Samsung last year - various manufacturers have joined in on the new tech. However, tests and trials around these devices have raised quest...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The debate of the State of the Nation Address in a joint sitting of parliament descended into chaos when accusations of women abuse were flung around. It led to the EFF leader Julius Malema being asked to leave the house. As is convention, all parties in the House convened to debate the SONA delivered by President Cyril Ramaphosa last week. But when Ramaphosa was ac...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Small Claims Courts in South Africa have been given a much needed face-lift - with a newly improved guide for the practitioners of the courts. Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, John Jeffery says the 2020 revised Guidelines for Clerks and Commissioners of Small Claims Courts aims to ensure uniformity and better...

SABC News and Current Affairs — One of South Africa's foremost Indian classical dancers, Verushka Pather, will be performing as part of the annual Maha Shivaratri festival at Ganga Talao in southern Mauritius this week. The festival sees thousands of pilgrims from around the world journey to one of the most sacred sites dedicated to Hindu deity, Lord Shiva. Durban based Pather will perform at the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - World renowned Tamil scholar, Dr Kisten Chinappan died yesterday afternoon following a short spell of ill health. Devoted to the promotion of the Tamil language, Dr Chinappan recently received his doctoral degree from The University of Madras in India. His daughter, Sivani Chinappan continues to propagate her fathers love for educ...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi and Taliesha Naidoo - The safety of the elderly, has been called into question, following the death of a 72-year-old pensioner in Kharwastan, south of Durban yesterday. PRO of the Kharwastan Community Policing Forum, Sam Pillay says over the years they have tried to improve security in the area with street patrols and resident invol...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Police are investigation murder and robbery following a home invasion that took place earlier this morning in Kharwastan, south of Durban. It is believed that a 72 year old pensioner was strangled to death and her daughter severely assaulted and bound in the attack. Chatsworth Community Policing Forum chairperson, Jakes Singh say...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The eThekwini Municipality has asked residents in Durban not to panic if water reserves dry up over the next two days. The municipality has begun planned water maintenance from this morning, where the council has shut down water supply in order to upgrade key infrastructure in the city. The main aim of the shutdown is to do a t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In South Africa, 9% of all teen deaths are caused by suicide. That's according to The South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG), who began observing "Teen Suicide Prevention Week" from Sunday the 16th to the 23rd of this month. Teen suicide is becoming more common every year in South Africa and only car accidents and h...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Women in India can now have a full-time career in the military. The Supreme Court also ruled they would be allowed to command enlisted men. It rejected the army's argument that female officers had pressing homely duties in a watershed verdict that could even pave the way for them to go into combat. Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Determined to end femicide and Gender Based Violence in South Africa, a faith-based organisation is to host a conference on Thursday in Durban - calling for religious bodies to contribute to the South African National Strategic Plan against sexual and gender-based violence. Coordinator of the organisation dubbed "We Will Speak Out...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Salma Patel - The need for control is the downfall of many Asian-owned businesses. This was the finding of a masters study conducted by Ahmed Mohammed Seedat, the director of an organisational development practice that focuses mainly on the development of family-owned business. Seedat has found that the gains made by the 1st and 2nd generation...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The retraction by the FW de Klerk Foundation has been labelled "unconvincing", with South Africans unsure as to whether the former president actually means it. Nelson Mandela University in the Eastern Cape Political analyst - Ongama Mtimka says democracy is fairly young for the masses to remember apartheid, which caused the dea...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Reaction from women across South Africa to a sub-plot in locally made film, has inspired the movie's writer-director to host an exhibition for women artists who have been overlooked in their communities. Filmmaker Eubulus Timothy is calling on women who related to the character of the mother in his popular 2018 movie "Deep End". H...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Ela Gandhi says she feels extremely blessed to have met Pope Francis during a recent invitation to Rome in Italy. Gandhi spoke at conference held by the "Women of Faith Network" in Italy to celebrate a week of harmony. The celebrations form part of a declaration by the United Nations, encouraging the world to look at promoting har...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A man who was reported missing over the weekend, was found dead in Verulam, north of Durban on Saturday evening. Director of local security company, Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) - Prem Balram says the man was found with a stab wound to the chest. It is believed that the deceased was involved in an altercation after a night at...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Engagements are at an advanced stage between mobile operators and the Competition Commission to reduce the cost of data in South Africa. That's according to Communications and Technology Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams. The Commission had earlier given mobile operators until February to lower data costs by about 50% or f...

SABC News and Current Affairs — US President Donald Trump says he has been promised that quote "millions and millions of people" will greet him in India. But nationwide protests over an anti-Muslim law and unresolved trade disputes could come in the way when he and Melania Trump undertake their first visit to the South Asian nation next week. Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - President Cyril Ramaphosa says government intends to open up and regulate the commercial use of hemp products. This follows a landmark Constitutional Court decision which legalised the use of cannabis for specific purposes. The sale of dagga is still illegal, but in the State of the Nation address, Ramaphosa says ordinar...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The ANC has condemned a statement issued by the foundation of former deputy president FW De Klerk, as a clear and deliberate attempt to incite racial hatred in the country. In the statement, the De Klerk Foundation claims the UN's classification of apartheid as a crime against humanity formed part of an agenda by the Soviet Union...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - In the latest Newsbreak feature, we commemorate an important milestone in history, with this year marking 160 years since the Indian indentured labourers arrived in South Africa. Brought to the British colony of Natal in 1860 on five-year contracts, Indians came to work mainly on sugar plantations where they lived under very ha...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Five armed robbers stormed into a local shopping centre, at Overport in Durban, robbing a jewellery store. Chairperson of the eThekweni Central Cluster Crime Prevention Forum - Imtiaaz Sayed says the armed suspects fled the scene after firing multiple shots, however no injuries were reported...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education have started investigations into the alleged attack of a female learner by fellow learners at Newlands East secondary school. Earlier this week a video of the brutal attack that went viral on social media alerted the KZN department of Education off the attack. Department spokesperson, Kwaz...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producers Matthew Veeran and Hoosen Ebrahim - The EFF last night disrupted President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address leading to a lengthy suspension of the business in Parliament. They were demanding that former state president - FW de Klerk not be allowed to attend the event for recently saying that apartheid was not a crime against human...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - President of the South African Hindu Maha Sabha, Ashwin Trikamjee says South Africans have to rally behind President Cyril Ramaphosa and the proclamations he has made in this year's State of the Nation Address. Trikamjee has also emphasised that South Africans should refrain importing the politics of other countries, as we face ou...