Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — Former KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC - Mxolisi Kaunda - is the new mayor of the eThekwini Metro, while the former Finance MEC - Belinda Scott - is Kaunda's deputy. The election of office bearers was done by secret ballot after the DA also fielded candidates to contest the positions. During the election of a mayor 13 ballot papers were declatred spoilt, and 7 in the el...

SABC News and Current Affairs — India claims to have lifted a communications blackout and that they have removed other restrictions from Kashmir. The government hoped to make headlines but the global media remained focused on mass arrests, public beatings and protests - which began after Delhi broke the Muslim-majority region into two on August the 5th. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn repo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - South Africans must embrace each other and celebrate their differences in order to grow as a unified nation. That's according to fashion designer - David Tlale. He has collaborated with a local brand to create exclusive designs for their packaging in honour of Heritage Month. Tlale, whose work has been showcased from Cape Town...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - 76-year-old marathon runner Ranjith Ramlukan returned to South Africa recently to pay a visit to a few friends and family members. Now residing in Boston - Massachusetts, Ramlukan rose to prominence in the late 1960's as the first South African of Indian-origin to complete the Comrades Marathon - a feat he would go on to achiev...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Salma Patel - As the outpouring of shock and disbelief cause a flurry of activity on social media, several hashtags have emerged around the shocking murders and deaths of women - like #AmINext, #EnoughIsEnough. But now a page on Twitter that "outs" alleged sexual deviants has had to be shut down because it makes allegations that are untested a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bogani Gema - The community of Reservoir Hills, west of Durban say they are shocked by death of David Selbrin Govender. The 88-year-old was found wrapped in a carpet inside a drum at the basement of his home. Reservoir Hills Rate Payers Association chairperson - Ish Praladh - says Govender was a kind man and his death has left the community tr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of 6-year-old Amy Lee de Jager. The suspects, including two women aged 27 and 40 as well as a 50-year-old man, were tracked down by police at their homes last night in Vanderbijlpark, south of the Gauteng. De Jager was kidnapped on Monday morning outside Kolle...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Bongani Gema - KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating a case of murder after the body of an 88-year-old man was found in a drum at his home in Reservoil Hills, west of Durban. The victim has been identified as David Selbrin Govender. Police say Govender had been missing for a couple of days. KZN police spokesperson - Colonel Thembeka Mbele say...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - With Arbor Week drawing to a close, a local organisation says the Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) has invaded South Africa and is killing many of our trees. According to the Forestry and Agricultural Biodiversity Institute (FABI) - PSHB is a 2 mm long ambrosia beetle that is native to Southeast Asia. It bores through the bark of a tree...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The attacks against women and children in the country have ignited widespread condemnation. Women have since taken to social media to express their fears of possibly being the next victim of gender-based violence with #AmINext being one of the top trends in the country. 22-year-old Micaela Govender from Chatsworth, south of Du...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The man wanted in connection with the brutal death of his wife in Pietermaritzburg almost two weeks ago, has been found dead in a Durban lodge. Police confirmed the incident, saying that Roland Pillay's body was found by a member of the lodge's cleaning staff who came in to clean the room just after 10am yesterday. Pillay had b...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A 44-year-old man accused of killing four siblings in Wybank near Pinetown, west of Durban, has been arrested. Three of the children were found hanging inside their home, while the fourth was strangled to death and her school uniform was used to tie her to a tree in New Germany. The three youngest children were the man's biological children, while the 17-year-old on...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra is in the spotlight regarding a slugfest over Kashmir - and it has now drawn diplomats and celebrities from Pakistan and India into the ring. The brawl has found more showbiz value than the crippling crackdown on millions in the Himalayan region, claimed also by the two rival nations. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn reports....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) will meet with the Minister of Police Bheki Cele in an effort to discuss a co-ordinated response to the wave of attacks on businesses in Gauteng. Busa has condemned the violent protests across the province where foreign-owned businesses were vandalised and looted. Busa acting CEO - Cas Coovadi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Urgent calls are being made by the community to tackle the scourge of gender-based violence in the country. This after slain University of Cape Town student, Uyinene Mrwetyana, was raped and murdered. Her body was found in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats last week Monday, after she went missing for more than a week. A 42-year-old...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - Embattled eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has agreed to step down as mayor as officially requested by the ANC. Last week Gumede resigned as the executive mayor of the city but later withdrew her resignation. The ANC's top six national leadership has re-affirmed an earlier decision by the party's KwaZulu-Natal leadership to rec...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Salma Patel - A controlled march is currently underway in the Durban Central Business District. The march is spearheaded by Taxi Owners and operators who are voicing their concern over the growing incidents of taxi violence. Metro Police spokesperson senior Superintendent Parbhoo Sewpersad says the police are keeping a close eye on the march.....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Several people have been injured after armed robbers brazenly entered the St Augustines Hospital at Glenwood, in Durban. Heather Hayward Rorick, spokesperson for the Bulwer Safety and Urban Regeneration Forum, says several items were stolen during the early morning robbery. She says the community is outraged by the crime and a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadio - SABC journalist have uncovered horrific accounts leading up to the deaths of four children who were allegedly killed by their father in Durban yesterday. SABC reporter, Nonhlakanipho Magwaza spent her morning in Wyebank, west of Durban, speaking to neighbours who recounted the scene of discovering the body. She is currently in C...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - World leaders are increasingly taking to social media to release and make important statements. Late yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa had to face the ire of Twitter users after he chose to use the digital route and release his statement on the social media platform. Meanwhile, social media expert, Nazreen Ebrahim, sa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The South African Muslim Network (SAMNET) has called on citizens to rally behind the human rights of the people who have been rocked in the Kashmiri region, following major conflict in recent weeks. Chairperson, Dr Faizal Sooliman says that the people in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent have been suffering with very...

SABC News and Current Affairs — India's government must explain a clampdown it enforced on Kashmir in early August to the Supreme Court. Judges are also likely to rule on the media blackout of its eight million people - which rival Pakistan said it will raise "forcefully" at the meeting of the UN General Assembly later this month. Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - With the country mourning the senseless killing of several women around the country, KwaZulu-Natal police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly killed his four children by hanging them. The bodies of 3 children aged four, six and 10 were found hanging in their home yesterday. It is alleged that the children were picked up as...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The ANC's top six national leaders have re-affirmed an earlier decision by the party's KwaZulu-Natal leadership to recall all office bearers in the eThekwini metro council - including mayor Zandile Gumede. ANC Deputy Secretary General - Jessie Duarte - accompanied by the party's provincial leadership met with party councillors in eThekwini. They gave the councillors...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Activists and concerned community members came together at the steps of the Durban City Hall, last night, for a vigil, a silent protest and prayer to mourn the loss of Uyinene Mrwetyana and other victims who were killed in the last few days of Women's Month. Several vigils have been scheduled throughout the country during this...