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SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - September marks International Childhood cancer awareness month and medical experts are stressing the importance of early detection - something that can drastically increase survival. South Africa has some of the lowest survival rates when it comes to childhood cancers at 55%, according to the Childhood Cancer Foundation of Sout...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Bongani Gema - Residents of the Burnwood informal settlement in Durban are demanding the forceful removal of suspect Somali nationals. This after the disgruntled residents marched to their local police station accusing the alleged foreign nationals of shooting locals in the area. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson - Captain Nqobile Gwala says a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Salma Patel - The second Interpol Drug Conference is set to kickoff in Cape Town tomorrow. More than 190 countries will be represented at the conference that hopes to tackle the international trafficking of drugs wordwide. National Police Spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidu says its important for countries to strengthen networking and relation...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - A body, believed to be that of an Indian male, has washed up on the Durban beachfront this morning. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane says the body was found at Dairy Beach. The victim is suspected to be 48-years-old and had been wearing jeans and takkies. Zwane says the man's identity has not ye...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producers, Taliesha Naidoo & Bongani Gema - Emmanuel Ndlela, the 38-year-old father who killed his two children aged 3 and 8 years old at Empangeni on the north coast of KwaZulu Natal, has been sentenced to two life terms by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Ndlela pleaded guilty to the murders. The bodies of the children were found hanging inside the Nd...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Two suspects - aged 14 and 15 - are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrates Court today, in connection with the murder of a 15-year-old learner at Sastri College in Greyville. It's alleged that the suspects had an altercation at the school and the 15-year-old was later shot outside the premises. The Sastri College School G...

SABC News and Current Affairs — South Africa has sent a team of Special Envoys to some parts of the continent to offer the country's apology and deliver a message of solidarity to the African Heads of State. This follows the recent spate of attacks on foreign nationals in the past few weeks. The team comprising of former Minister Jeff Radebe, Dr Khulu Mbatha and Ambassador Kingsley Mamabolo, will...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - When the central business district of Isipingo, south of Durban, was labelled a crime hotspot - the Isipingo Community Policing Forum, together with various stakeholders decided to embark on what they call a "weekly clean up". These clean-up operations culminated in a massive program last Friday as Metro Police and the Public Orde...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - With the Hindu celebration of Diwali just a few weeks away, the Democratic Alliance has made an urgent request for a public dialogue to address issues of racism and religious intolerance that has marred celebrations over the last few years. DA Member of Parliament, Haniff Hoosen made the appeal to the Commission for the Promotion...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Rehabilitation for child offenders should be an ongoing programme rather than a one time thing. That's the reaction coming though from ChildLine in KwaZulu-Natal with regard to the annual crime statistics which show that children were charged for 736 murder cases in the last financial year. According to the stats, the murder ra...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The second Pan African Cemeteries and Crematoria Conference is all to kick-off at the International Conference Center in Durban later this morning. Chairperson of the South African Cemeteries Association, Pepe Dass says the primary aim of the conference is to make the public aware of the challenges they face and discuss possible s...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The deployment of the army in some crime hotspots in Cape Town comes to an end today. In July Police Minister Bheki Cele announced that soldiers would be deployed to the streets of townships in the mother city following a series of murders. Chairperson of the Nyanga Community Policing Forum cluster - Sandile Martin explains the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Newsbreak Talk host Taresh Harreeparshad goes in conversation with Public Protector Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane

SABC News and Current Affairs — Pakistan said yesterday 58 countries were united against rival India's action in Kashmir. The statement came as local residents resisted Delhi's attempt to claim normalcy returning to the region where eight million people are living with roadblocks, lockdown and shortages since August 5. Rana Sen reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Enough is Enough. That was the sentiment for protestors in Sandton Johannesburg who took on the fight against gender-based violence. The Call-to-Action, a consortium representing over 70 civil society organisations and individual activists, are calling for big businesses and government to assist in combating gender-based viole...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Five people have been taken in for questioning following the murder of 88-year-old Reservoir Hills pensioner, David Govender. KwaZulu Natal police spokesperson Thulani Zwane says they were taken in for questioning but were later released due to insufficient evidence at the time. Earlier this month, Govender was found dead in a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Staying with news relating to the crime statistics... Umesh Singh, Chairperson of the Phoenix Crime Prevention Forum, says although there has been a decrease in house robberies, the Phoenix area still sees high volumes of these crimes...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Activists against Gender-based violence are protesting outside the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in Sandton north of Johannesburg at this hour. The protest started in the early hours of this morning. They are part of the Call-to-Action, a consortium representing over 70 civil society groups calling on big business to help fund in...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - A suspect involved in a robbery has been shot dead by police, while four others were arrested following a jewellery store break-in at the Mall of Africa, in Johannesburg. Gauteng police spokesperson, Captain Mavela Masondo, says a chase ensued as the suspects fled the scene, leading to a shootout between police and the suspects...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The high court in Pretoria will on Monday deliver judgement in the Dros Rape trial after the state and defence presented their closing arguments to the court yesterday. Nicholas Ninow admitted to raping a then 7-year-old girl in a toilet cubicle at a Dros restaurant last year. He also admitted to being in possession of drugs and defeating the ends of justice when he...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Bongani Gema - Newsbreak spoke to anti-crime activist, Yusuf Abramjee. He says crime statistics should be released on a regular basis and not annually - in order to assist communities in fighting crime and making their neighbourhoods safer...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The murder rate in the country has increased for a seventh year in a row. Senior Police officials were briefing Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Police on the figures for the period from April last year to the end of March this year. Murder has increased by 686 cases and sexual assault by more than 2,000. Zalene Merrington reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak's Taresh Harreeparshad - South Africa: your women are bleeding... over 63 women killed in 30 days... Panic protests ask: #AmINext... Newsbreak Talk deals with the uncomfortable issue of gender based violence

SABC News and Current Affairs — The funeral service of the late Jazz maestro Shunna Pillay will take place tomorrow at the Clare Estate crematorium. Better known on stage as "Sonny", the 87-year-old jazz musician passed away from a suspected heart attack on late Tuesday night. Pillay sang and performed alongside the likes of the late Hugh Masekela, Pillay's ex-wife Miriam Makeba and American stand...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Judgement has been adjourned to Monday in the trial against Nicolous Ninow, the man accused of raping a 7-year-old girl in a toilet cubicle at a Dros restaurant, in Pretoria. Yesterday the girl and her mother testified in camera with a mediator via CCTV at the Pretoria High Court. Our SABC News reporter, Leila Magnus, is at co...