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SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Bhekamandaba Makhonza from Edendale Technical High School in Pietermaritzburg is flying the flag high for KwaZulu-Natal. The 17-year-old is the third ranked Physical Science student in the country. Makhonza who is currently on his way to Midrand, Johannesburg where the Department of Education is hosting a celebration for the t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Embattled power utility Eskom says load shedding is likely to continue for the next two years as efforts to stabilise the constrained grid, goes on. This comes after the supplier implemented stage 2 load shedding from Saturday evening until 5am this morning. Eskom deputy spokesperson, Dikatso Mothae says that a conveyor belt at...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - The 2019 political year has seen a host of interesting developments: speculation remains rife that the ANC is still battling factionalism, the DA revealed a lot about it's internal wrangling when Mmusi Maimane stepped down following the return of Helen Zille to the party an the EFF has held strong onto it's controversial...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - The number of road fatalities in the Western Cape province continues to grow after three people died in an accident at Paarl, in the Western Cape. In a separate incident yesterday the driver of a motor vehicle died after hitting two pedestrians at Nyanga. Western Cape Traffic Chief, Kenny Africa, says while the growing death to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A ten-year-old boy has drowned at Salt Rock Beach, north of Durban. He is the fifth person to drown this week after three family members from Utrecht in northern KwaZulu-Natal died saving a 9-year-old child. On Wednesday, another 10-year-old drowned at the Westville community pool. Nonhlakanipho Magwaza reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - KwaZulu-Natal Premier Sihle Zikalala says the province is focused on increasing investment and industrialisation in 2020. He was reflecting on the year that was in the province. Zikalala counts the opening of the new Durban promenade and the cell-phone manufacturing plant at the Dude Trade Port as notable achievements to increa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Prodcuer Hoosen Ebrahim - January marks Tamil Heritage Month in Canada - a month dedicated to celebrating Tamil culture. Tamils began migrating to Canada since the early 1950s and have established a thriving community there. To discuss the significance of such a commemoration in the western part of the world, Hoosen Ebrahm got a hold of cultural histori...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Gauteng police have called for anyone with information to come forward following a drive-by shooting in Melville, Johannesburg. Two people died in the New Year's eve incident. Six others were wounded - with two of them in a critical condition. This comes after an unknown suspect allegedly opened fire on a popular restaurant on Seventh Street - following an altercati...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - At least 16 people have died in flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, after the city had its most intense rainfall for at least 24 years. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) measured 377 millimetres of rainfall in a day at an airport in East Jakarta. That's the most most rain in a single day since a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — More than 120 undocumented foreign nationals were arrested at the Durban beachfront on New Year's Day. They were arrested during Police Minister Bheki Cele's walkabout in the area. The majority of those taken into custody are said to be from Malawi. Authorities say beach-goers seemed to have obeyed the city's by-law that forbids drinking in public. Nonjabulo Mntungw...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Close to 1,500 illegal or unwanted firearms have been handed in to police by South African citizens. This consisted of 1,248 handguns, 75 shotguns and 142 rifles. Also, more than 14-thousand rounds of ammunition were handed in by the end of the first month of the firearms amnesty period which ended on Tuesday. It is understood...

SABC News and Current Affairs — President Cyril Ramaphosa says the hardships faced by South Africans due to the rise in unemployment and poverty have not been taken for granted. In his New Years message, Ramaphosa says 2019 was a "mixed bag" and called on fellow South Africans to join hands with one and all for a better future. He also mentioned the rise in violent crimes against women and childre...

SABC News and Current Affairs — This weekend Jharkhand became the 11th Indian state to reject a religion-based law which has sparked deadly protests and calls for a nationwide boycott. Opposition to the legislation and a national headcount has also found support in the West, where critics say the draconian measures are blatantly anti-Muslim. Rana Senn reports from New Delhi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Members of the public making use of fireworks outside of the by-law stipulated time could be liable for a fine of up to R5,000. That's according to Durban Metro Police Spokesperson, Senior Superintendent Parbhoo Sewpersad. Municipal by-law guidelines allow for fireworks to be set off tonight from 11.45 pm until tomorrow morning...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) is urging the public to be responsible when discharging fireworks and be mindful of animals. NSPCA spokesperson Meg Wilson says fire crackers have a detrimental effect on both wild and domestic animals...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - It's been a bloody weekend across the KwaZulu-Natal province as three people have been shot dead and another is fighting for his life at a Durban hospital in three separate incidents. In the first incident, Westville prison warden - Stanley Pillay was gunned down at Shallcross, south of Durban during the early hours of Saturday...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Davarum, the first Indentured Labourer to disembark from the SS Truro on 17 December 1860, could be immortalised with a road in Durban named after him. The 1860 Indentured Labourers Foundation in Verulam, north of Durban have approached the eThewkini Municipality to rename a road within the municipality as part of their program fo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A little over two million crimes were recorded between April 2018 and March 2019 - according to the crime statistics as published by the The South African Police Service (SAPS) and Statistics South Africa. Taking stock of the year that was, eThekwini Central Cluster CPF chairperson Imtiaz Syed says education of South Africa's yout...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Chairman of the Shallcross CPF, Mahendra Lillkant, says that Westville prison warden - Stanley Pillay was a very humble person that was involved in various sporting activities...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Newsbreak will be taking you through a yearly review of the world's biggest news and events from the year 2010 to 2019 as we usher in the year 2020 - and a new decade. Today we review 2012, the year social media took the world by storm. Newsbreak's Taliesha Naidoo has the details...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Johannesburg Road Agency's acting managing director, Siyabonga Nodu says the M1 south bridge structure has not collapsed - after various reports suggesting that the bridge at the Booysens off-ramp in Johannesburg indeed gave away. Meanwhile, motorists have been assured that the bridge is safe to use. No fatalities or injuries w...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - While an annual holiday away from home can be both exciting and relaxing, an unmonitored home could cause a stressful end to your getaway. That's according to media liaison for local security company, Blue Security - Andreas Matios. Now that Christmas is over, many families are set to depart for a much needed break - however -...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Thousands of holiday makers who are in Durban, say they feel safe and secure in the city. Police have been deployed to curb criminal activity in and around Durban. Police Minister Bheki Cele also conducted a walkabout at Durban's main beach-front as part of the festive season safety monitoring campaign.. Fanele Mhlongo reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Getting to know how people actually are is the first step of goodwill. That's according to International Centre of Non-violence in Durban Director - Crispin Hemson. South Africa observes "The Day of Goodwill" against the backdrop of violent crime and widespread suffering. Hemson says during this time, it's best to care fo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Pots of biryani, Park Rynie beach trips and fun in the sun are some of the traditions that we've become accustomed to on the day of goodwill or boxing day. This, however, was not always the case for South Africans of Indian origin. The Indentured labourers who came to KwaZulu-Natal in 1860, had to work on such days or they simp...