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SABC News and Current Affairs — India will outlaw plastic bags, cups, bottles and straws and enlist millions in a nationwide cleanup starting on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on the 2nd of October. But experts argued disposing trash could be Herculean task and an easier solution could be to simply ban the production of single-use plastics. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Matthew Veeran - Over R85 million worth of cocaine has been seized at Port Elizabeth Harbour, following an intelligence-driven operation by the Ports of Entry team. The vessel was en route to Cape Town via the South American country of Ecuador. Reports suggest a total of 85 bricks weighing 85 kilograms were found in a hidden compartment of a c...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The child-minder testifying in the Dros Rape Trial has broken down in the Pretoria High Court today. Yesterday, the accused Nicholas Ninow admitted to raping a little girl last year at the Dros restaurant in Silverton - Pretoria. However, his plea explanation was not accepted by the state. SABC News reporter, Leila Magnus, is...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - The Tongaat Central Business District is being monitored by police after several hoax whatsapp messages calling for attacks on foreign nationals went viral on social media. Chairperson of the Tongaat Community Policing Forum - Nazir Sadak says some shops owned by foreign nationals remained closed for the entire day as th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Talk about it! That's the main message as today marks "World Suicide Prevention Day". It is commemorated to promote worldwide commitment and action to prevent suicides. On average, almost 3,000 people commit suicide daily. For every person who completes a suicide, 20 or more may attempt to end their lives. About one million peo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbrek Producer Shanell Daniel - A woman has been arrested for fatally shooting her boyfriend at KwaDukuza, south of Durban. Sontaga Seisa, acting spokesperson for the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) says the woman - who is a metro police officer - had an argument with her police officer boyfriend over the weekend - leading up to the shootin...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Seeking justice in cases of gender based violence is often a difficult hurdle that many victims cannot overcome because they do not have any legal representation. With the recent narrative of gender based violence in South Africa, Durban based attorneys, TPA Legal are offering free legal services to victims of abuse who genuinely...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - More learners are coming forward alleging sexual misconduct by a male teacher at Tongaat Secondary School, north of Durban. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education has condemned the alleged sexually explicit WhatsApp messages between the teacher and a Grade 11 learner at the school. The 30-year-old male teacher has since been su...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Police are now waiting on post mortem results of 23-year-old Natasha Conabeer after she passed away in a Durban hospital yesterday morning. Conabeer was found unconscious at the weekend outside her home at Inanda north of Durban. She had been reported missing after she was last seen three weeks ago when she left her Florida Roa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The situation remains calm in Johannesburg today following continuous unrest and looting in the city. Yesterday, former Inkatha Freedom Party President, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, attempted to engage with locals and foreigners to bring an end to the criminal and xenophobic violence taking place. A speech, in which he called...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - A 27 year old man will appear in the Underberg magistrates court in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands on charges of incitement of violence. This follows a social media post by the man in which he named 20 foreign national shop owners in the area and urged the community to attack them. This comes at a very volatile time in the country...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A 30 year old male teacher has been placed on precautionary suspension at a school at Tongaat north of Durban, for allegedly having a relationship with a Grade 11 learner for the past two years. This morning parents and concerned community members held a placard demonstration outside the school. The Tongaat Child Welfare held an intervention with social workers at t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - The incitement to land invasion case against Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has been postponed at the Newcastle Magistrates Court. Malema is being charged in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act of 1956 after an alleged call in 2014 on supporters to invade vacant land. Malema was represented by his attorney in his...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Nicholas Ninow, the man accused of raping a seven-year-old girl in a toilet cubicle at the Dros restaurant in Silverton in Pretoria last year has just pleaded guility to the rape. Appearing in the Pretoria High Court, Ninow also pleaded guilty to defeating the ends of justice and possession of drugs. However, he did not plead gui...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A social media message, broadcasting possible attacks on foreign nationals today (9 September 2019) by members of taxi associations has been dismissed by police as a hoax message. National police spokesperson Brigadier Vish Naidoo says the National Crime Intelligence Unit has been investigating various alleged threats and have pla...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Two men have been shot dead over the weekend at Mdalasini in Everest Heights, Verulam north of Durban. Spokesperson for local security company, Reaction Unit South Africa - Prem Balram says one of the victims is believed to be a foreign national who ran a hair salon at the premises where the killings took place. The second vict...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - One person has died and five others have been injured during the unrest that shook the Johannesburg central business district yesterday. Police have confirmed the victim died in hospital after being stabbed after an attack. The attacks took place after a group of hostel dwellers broke away from a crowd being addressed by former...

SABC News and Current Affairs — India's attempt to land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon has failed. This dashed its hopes of joining an elite club of nations that have touched down on the Moon in one piece. But the government dubbed the botched mission a resounding success - and feted its rocket scientists as heroes. From New Delhi - Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - The death penalty will not be reinstated in South Africa. That's the official word from the Department of Justice at this stage. There have been growing calls for the implementation of the death penalty for those found guilty of crimes against women. This follows widespread protests following horrific incidents of crime a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - As part of Newsbreak's Heritage Month focus, we explore the history of South Africa's famous "bunny chow". Considered an affordable delicacy - the hollowed-out bread loaf filled with spicy curry - has added it's flavour to South Africa's indigenous history. Although many claim to have created the bunny, no one is quite sure abo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The trials and tribulations of 18 uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) veterans have been documented in a book set to be released later this month in Cape Town. Titled "Voices from the Underground" the book details the ANC's military underground in the mid to late nineteen-eighties - during the height of the apartheid regime. Former Unit Comm...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - A school in New Germany west of Durban has held a silent demonstration and special assembly in memory of 3 of the 4 children who were allegedly hanged by their father earlier this week. Ten-year old Sphesihle Mpungose, 6-year old Khwezi and their youngest sister - 4-year old Kuhlenkonke - were learners at Lyndhurst Primary Schoo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - The Durban father who is charged with the murders of his 4 children has abandoned bail. Sibusiso Mpungose appeared in the Pinetown Magistrates court today. It is alleged that Mpungose hanged all 4 of his children after picking them up from school. It is further believed that the killings took place while the accused is in the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - A man believed to be in his 40's has been shot dead on Eaton Road, off Gayle Street, in Durban. Garrith Jamieson, spokesperson for Rescue Care Paramedics, says the man sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his torso yesterday afternoon and succumbed to his injuries at the scene. Jamieson says the motive for the shooting remains...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Experts have challenged President Cyril Ramaphosa's address last night, saying his strategy to deal with violence against women and children would not effectively deal with the crisis. In a televised address yesterday, Ramaphosa said all serious cases of gender-based violence that have been left unsolved must be reconsidered by...