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SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taresh Harreeparshad - PRASA is the latest state own enterprise to receive a government intervention. Yesterday Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula who dissolved the board- citing concerns about irregular expenditure. Last week SAA was placed on voluntary business rescue. SOE's have found themselves in hot water in recent times over allegations...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - More wet weather is on the cards for the Gauteng province, as the South African Weather Service issued a warning for severe thunderstorms- with possible hail, heavy downpours and strong winds expected. Flooding- due to continuous on-and-off rainfall is expected in places over the central and eastern half of the North-West prov...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, John Jeffery - will host a community dialogue at Chatsworth south of Durban this week, to address the high rate of drug abuse and gender based violence that is plauging the community. The session will take place on Wednesday from 10am to 12pm at the AFM church in Westcliff...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Two suspects will be appearing at the Umlazi Magistrate Court on charges of fraud and possession of suspected stolen property. The arrests were following a sting operation led by EThekwini Outer South and Umlazi police officers in Durban. Police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker says a 38-year-old woman was arrested at the offic...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - With the festive season barely upon us, the number of deaths experienced on South African roads have began to accumulate. On Saturday evening, a young father was killed after two cars collided at the intersection of the Phoenix Highway and Rydalvale grounds in Phoenix, north of Durban. Phoenix Community Policing Forum Sector 5 ch...

SABC News and Current Affairs — More than 40 people have died in India following a massive fire that broke out in a factory in New Delhi. The factory was located in a congested part of the city - making it difficult for rescue teams to reach the blaze. Over 20 fire trucks were called to fight the fire. Neha Poonia reports from New Delhi.......

SABC News and Current Affairs — A group of Indian policemen were hailed as national heroes after they killed four alleged rapists, who were arrested in the city of Hyderabad in India. As the calls for instant justice for sexual offenders grow louder, rights groups and lawmakers are warning that India would slide into chaos if the judicial process is sidestepped. This report by our South Asian corr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Energy analyst Chris Yelland, warns that extended periods of loadshedding could lead to a recession. Yelland says the current load shedding will have an impact on the GDP in the fourth quarter if it continues for more than a week. Eskom has warned that load shedding is likely to continue and has urged people to check online fo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - With the completion of the 2019 Senior Certificate Examinations and the release of matric results expected in early January - the focus now turns to tertiary education. For those who have not yet secured a place at an institution, it's still not too late to plan your academic year in 2020. According to the Independent Insti...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producers Taresh Harreeparshad and Matthew Veeran - After several motions of no confidence and constant criticisms of his tenure: the UDM's Mongameli Bobani has been ousted as the mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. He was removed through a motion of no confidence during a council meeting in Port Elizabeth yesterday. It propels deputy mayor, the Afri...

SABC News and Current Affairs — India's government has signed off on a law to grant citizenship to religious minorities but it bars Muslim asylum seekers. The divisive bill, which will be brought to parliament on Monday for a vote, has put in doubt the future of certain categories of people of Indian origin living overseas. Rana Sen reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - KwaZulu-Natal based non-government organisation "Singakwenza" have partnered with global airline giant Emirates - to enhance skills amongst children by teaching youth how to create toys from waste material. Singakwenza is an isizulu term which translates to "we can do it". The charity together with the airline will be training...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - At the start of the festive season three lives have been lost in a collision involving a truck and a bakkie on NMR and Battery Beach Road, in Durban Central. Spokesperson for Rescue Care paramedics, Garrith Jamieson, says three men were fatally injured yesterday afternoon while two other occupants were injured - all believed to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - A Durban-based security group is using the power of social media to provide women with access to immediate security protection. The group has launched the Women's Safety Initiative (WSI) in response to the scourge of gender-based violence currently afflicting South African women. The initiative allows for women who require som...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producers Prabashini Moodley, Taliesha Naidoo and Matthew Veeran - African National Congess Johannesburg chairperson Geoff Makhubo has been elected as mayor of South African's economic hub, Johannesburg. Makhubo, attained 137 votes of 268 votes, making him the new City of Johannesburg Mayor. Democratic Alliance Mayoral committee member for finance, Funz...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - KwaZulu-Natal police are pleased heading into the festive season, after drugs worth almost three-million-rand were confiscated in the Pongolo area in the far north of the province. They have also arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly being in possession of drugs. Police spokesperson Jay Naicker says that 15 kilograms of drug...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Experts believe that the strange occurrence of sardines in the summer, four tornadoes ripping through KwaZulu-Natal within weeks and the soaring 45-degree temperatures in some parts of the country, is a result of global warming and climate change. The World Meteorological Organization says 2019 was a year of exceptional global...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Sexual harassment in the South African workplace needs to become more explicitly defined ahead of next year's review of the Code of Good Practice. That's according to legal experts during the "16 Days of Activism" campaign. This entails providing more guidelines on how to deal with specific repercussions of sexual harassm...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The City of Johannesburg council speaker, Vasco Da Gama has confirmed that a new mayor will be elected today. Da Gama says he is happy with the legal opinion he'd sort and that other councilors are also satisfied. Da Gama postponed last weeks sitting - citing the need to seek legal opinion on the interpretation of council rules on what constitutes a majority in Coun...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Residents of Newlands West, north of Durban are living under siege from the increased level of crime that has gripped the community in recent months. In the latest incident, several armed men stormed a home using two vehicles along Nordale Road in the early parts of yesterday morning. Community leaders in the area describe the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - Today is deadline day for those taxpayers who have not yet filed their income tax returns. The South Africa Revenue Services (SARS) has warned that those who do not meet today's deadline - there will be administrative penalties levied for every month the return is outstanding. The deadline applies to non-provisional taxpaye...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Meanwhile, Water Services Manager at the iLembe District Municipality - Elias Bhengu admits that aging infrastructure has been the cause of water cuts in Stanger and surrounding. He says, while water has been restored in some area's, other are still accessing water via tankers...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Tensions are mounting in Stanger, north of Durban as residents accuse the iLembe Municipality of inconsistent water supply in certain areas. According to Ash Sukdev - a High Ridge resident and the Chairperson of the newly formed "Water Crisis Committee", they have been experiencing intermittent water cuts over the last few mont...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Salma Patel - President of India's Wipro Consumer Care - Nagender Arya says South Africa is the largest personal care market in Africa. The organisation has just concluded a business acquisition that provides a gateway into solidifying India-South Africa business relations. Arya says they are excited to bolster trade relations with the second l...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - There are currently over 7 million people living with HIV in South Africa. As AIDS research intensifies around the world - is the answer closer to home? Newsbreak Talk on World AIDS Day this past Sunday discussed the latest scientific developments...