Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — Pakistan has refused a request from India's prime minister to use its airspace on a flight to Germany. It crowned the hostilities between the two countries over human rights restrictions in Kashmir which is likely to spill into the latest session of UN General Assembly in New York. Ran Sen reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - Police Minister - Bheki Cele - is visiting the University of Zululand's main campus today at KwaDlangezwa near Empangeni on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. This after days of violent student protests, who demanded to speak to Cele about crime on and off campus. The students are demanding stricter security measures on campus...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - Three suspects have been arrested and one is still on the run following a botched hijacking in Amanzimtoti, south of Durban. The supsects allegedly accosted the owner of the vehicle as he was leaving his residence at Illovu and demanded his vehicle at gun-point. As the suspects were speeding off, the victim alerted an off-duty p...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Police officers and K9 members have cordoned off the area around an abandoned vehicle - allegedly used as the get-away vehicle in a jewelry store heist that took place earlier this morning at the Phoenix Plaza, north of Durban. Police spokesperson, Captain Louise Naidoo says a shootout ensued when police responded to the robbery....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - A video circulating on social media has gone viral - showing a family being caught up in gunfire at Newlands East, north of Durban. The incident which transpired earlier this week shows two cars parked at a block of flats on Tandipa Road, where a prayer was in procession, before the suspects riddled the area with bullets. One m...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Nostalgic South African movie, Kings of Mulberry Street is receiving international recognition. The 80's themed movie will premiere at the Schlingel International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience in Germany in October. It will then premiere at the prestigious Oscar-qualifying St. Louis Film Festival in November. T...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Hundreds of men and women are expected to take to the streets of Overport in Durban tomorrow to stand against the high rate of femicide claiming the lives of so many innocent women in South Africa. In the recent crime statics released, the country has seen another drastic increase of 4.6% in sexual offences since last year. The...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - As South Africa celebrates Literacy Month this September, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Member of Parliament - Les Govender has decided to give back to the community by donating a portion of his monthly salary to rebuilding libraries in local schools. Govender says he was motivated to do something to help improved the reading and wr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Relief efforts are underway for the animals affected by Hurricane Dorian which devastated the Caribbean islands. The Humane Society International, an animal protection organisation is one of the many that deployed a team of responders to Abaco Island to rescue and care for animals and is appealing to the public for donations. T...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Bongani Gema - A Durban University of Technology (DUT) security officer is recovering in hospital after being allegedly attacked by an angry group of students. The security guard was allegedly assaulted and doused with petrol by students who attempted to set him alight. During the early hours of Wednesday morning the students went on a rampage...

SABC News and Current Affairs — ndia's Supreme Court has asked the federal government to lift a blockade it imposed on eight million people in disputed Kashmir. Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi also warned he would personally visit the Himalayan region to verify Delhi's claims that life had returned to normal nearly six weeks after it ordered the crippling lockdown. South Asian correspondent, Rana Sen r...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - A 51 year-old teacher who allegedly raped a 13 year-old learner from a school at Mkhindini Reserve in northern KwaZulu-Natal will remain in police custody until his next court appearance on Monday next week. The suspect appeared before the Melmoth Magistrate Court on Monday. It is believed that the teacher manipulated the victim...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Former apartheid police officer Joao Rodrigues's application for leave to appeal - in the murder of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol - has been dismissed by the High Court in Johannesburg. Rodrigues appeared in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg this morning. The application relates to the dismissal of his bid for a perman...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Johannesburg based - political analyst, Zamikhaya Maseti has lashed out at President Cyril Ramaphosa for his move to deploy special envoys through-out the continent. Maseti says that the President should have rather issued a stern warning to the African governments to make sure their nationals adhere to the rule of law while in South Africa. Ramaphosa's move is an a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced plans for a major new smart city in KwaZulu-Natal which could possibly create 750-thousand jobs. The 50-year Durban Aerotropolis master plan will turn the entire surface area around King Shaka International Airport into a smart city with diversified economic activities th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — President Cyril Ramaphosa has described government's new model of service delivery as a game changer. The president officially launched the District Based Delivery at the OR Tambo Municipality in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. The model also known as Khawuleza will streamline service delivery at all 44 districts and eight metros across the country. The president wa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Editing your social media pictures may be the trend to follow online, but it can be misleading for use on a missing person's flyer. That's according to forensic consultant, Dawn Gounden. She says those involved in missing persons cases are facing many challenges, due to the fact that many photographs sent to them are photo-shopped...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Bongenia Gema - Three suspects have been arrested on the N3 freeway en route to Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal. The suspects aged between 26 and 28 were arrested after police received a tip-off that the suspects were on their way to commit a crime. Police recovered two firearms and 16 rounds of ammunition during the arrests. KZN spokesperson - Capt...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - A satellite police station in KwaDlangezwa, near the University of Zululand, on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast has allegedly been torched by protesting students. The situation remains tense at the university. The protests - that started on Monday night - are continuing with students calling on the university to step up securit...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education has appointed 1500 trained security personnel to be deployed to schools around the province. This is to ensure the safety of learners and the teachers inside the school premises. The programme is being launched today at Ukusa High School at Hammardsdale in the KZN Midlands - where two sc...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Police have launched a massive manhunt for the suspects involved in a bank robbery - in which one person died - north of Durban yesterday afternoon. While details of the robbery are still being investigated, it is believed that the victim may have been followed into the bank. Kyle van Reenen, the General Manager of local emergenc...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Members of the public have been urged to take advantage of the opportunity to have their last will and testament drafted free of charge during National Wills Week. During this period - which takes place until the 20th of this month, legal practitioners will draft and offer legal advice at no cost to the public. The services are...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education will launch its Safer Schools Project at Hammarsdale today. This, in light of the upsurge of violence at schools, the most recent being the murder of a Sastri College Learner, Walter Moyeni. Its alleged that Walter was shot dead by fellow learners outside the school premises on T...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - A man has been shot dead during an armed robbery at a FNB north of Durban. It is understood a gang of robbers stormed the bank in North Coast Road, Briardene and held up customers and staff. Details surrounding the incident at still sketchy. Police have confirmed the incident, through spokesperson Thulani Zwane...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Bongani Gema - KwaZulu-Natal police have launched a manhunt for one suspect after the body of a 22 year-old woman was found buried in a shallow grave in Margate, on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. The gruesome discovery was made by community members last Friday. Police say the woman was last seen by her friends on Wednesday on her way to visit h...