Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - UMsunduzi municipality is expected to reveal its new office bearers this afternoon. This after the former mayor - Themba Njilo and the entire executive committee was recalled earlier this month. The party revealed last week that Mzimkhulu Thobela will be the new uMsunduzi municipal mayor while Manilal Inderjit will be the new...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - Businessmen Adam Catzavelos has agreed to pay a 150-thousand rand fine and issue a public apology over his racial outbursts in August last year. He has reached a settlement agreement with the Human Rights Commission in the Equality court sitting in the Randburg Magistrates court north of Johannesburg. The HRC brought the appl...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Kwazi Mshengu has requested learners at Glenhaven Secondary school in Verulam, north of Durban to return to class. This after pupils embarked on violent protests action earlier this week. Learners are demanding the removal of a gating system that was used by the school to restrict their movement. M...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - From representing South Africa at World Fashion Week in Paris, to having signature labels - fashion designer Jacqui Emmanuel, has proved that you can have anything you want in life if you dress - or design - for it. In our Women's Month focus today, we caught up with Emmanuel, finding out how she got into designing. She says ma...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The community of Newlands West in Durban have vowed to reclaim the streets and rid it from criminal elements - which has seen a upward spike in recent weeks. Over 300 residents met with law enforcement at the Sufi Mosque on Steelcastle Drive last night, with the aim of creating new strategies to counter the effects of crime in...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - A teenager has drowned at Park Rynie Beach on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. It's believed the 18-year-old from Malangeni went swimming with a friend on Monday afternoon when he got into difficulty. A bystander dived into the surf to rescue the teenager, however, he was declared dead on the scene by paramedics. National Sea Re...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Social media timelines have seen an influx of missing dog posts - most presumed stolen. Shelly Tanner of the Blue Bundu Brigade, a pet rescue service, says the organisation has seen a definite increase in what people are referring to as "dog-napping". Areas such as Seaview, Malvern and Queensburgh are known for incidents of dog-napping. Tanner...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Vote counting has been completed in all 15 wards of the fiercely-contested Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality in the Free State. Independent candidates became the big winners after claiming nine wards. The ANC has lost 10 wards and retained five in the fiercely-contested ward. Nine went to its former members who stood as independent...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - The agricultural sector significantly contributes towards the South African economy. With the unemployment rate at 29.0 percent, Professor Lloyd Baiyegunhi, an agriculture lecturer at The University of KwaZulu-Natal, says the agricultural economy needs to be sustained in order to create jobs and shape the economy of the country...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrhaim - National Police Spokesperson, Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo concurs with the "Corruption Watch" report, saying that greed for money and power within the force has become a serious concern in recent years. Brigadier Naidoo explains the new approach by higher management to rid the police service of corrupt practices...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - A report released by Johannesburg-based non-profit organization "Corruption Watch" has revealed South African police are the most corrupt public servants. The report also shows that for the first time, corruption in the police force has overtaken other sectors such as education, health and local government. It identifies abuse...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Cebisile Mkhize - Police are searching for a body in Phoenix, north of Durban, after a decomposed human hand was found by a stray dog. A resident spotted the dog carrying the hand yesterday morning and contacted the authorities. KwaZulu-Natal Police spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane says an inquest docket has been opened. Meanwhile,...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Durban-born clinical psychologist - Professor Sathasivian "Saths" Cooper has just been presented with the HPCSA "Presidential Health Merit Award" for 2019. The award acknowledges outstanding performance of individual practitioners in the various professional boards. Prof. Cooper says this recognition will help him build on the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Remembering community activist prior to 1994 is the aim behind a new project by the Phoenix Community Centre, north of Durban. Project coordinator at the Centre - Sham Maharaj explains.....

SABC News and Current Affairs — The University of KwaZulu-Natal has paid tribute to five women academics in the fields of engineering, mathematics life and environmental sciences. The annual event -- called Wonder Women in Science -- is hosted during Women's Month and co-incides with National Science Week. The aim of the awards is to encourage young learners to defy the odds and become the best in...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - An urgent community meeting is being held at Newlands West this evening to address the high crime rate that's been plaguing the area in recent months. Attorney and Newlands west resident - Saber Ahmed Jazbhay says he hopes residents of Newlands East, West, Parlock and Bakeville will attend in order to engage with police and fi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - Two suspects are expected to appear in the Ntuzuma Magistrate court today. The suspects, aged 21 and 22-years, face murder charges after a 38-year old man was killed in Inanda, north of Durban on Sunday. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Brigadier Jay Naicker says the victim was attacked by a group of suspects after allegedly...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The man accused of murdering 55-year-old Pravin Ramdial, over an alleged rental dispute, has been granted bail. The suspect appeared at the Chatsworth Magistrates Court yesterday. According to police, the 27-year-old suspect - allegedly stabbed the victim to death on Monday night after during an argument at Montford, in Chatsw...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - A body believed to be that of man who was allegedly kidnapped from Chatsworth, south of Durban - has been found at a field in Camperdown, Pietermaritzburg. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Lieutenent-Colonel Thulani Zwane, says the gruesome discovery was made on Monday night. This after police had been investigating the alle...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In our Women's Month focus, Newsbreak caught up with former Chatsworth resident - Vanessa Govender, who is now the director of academics at Kearsney College, an all boys school near Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal. The 42-year-old mathematics teacher comes from a family of teachers, but says she never expected to become one herself....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - Telecommunications companies have appealed to the public to come forward with any information regarding the theft of cellphone tower battery packs. Last week 20 batteries were recovered and various arrests were made following tip-offs from the public. These batteries are stolen solely to be sold to the highest bidder in neighbo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Cebisile Mkhize - A manhunt is underway for a suspect responsible for the murder of a woman at her home at Pietermaritzburg, in KwaZulu-Natal. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane, says the 38-year-old woman was found strangled on Monday night. Zwane says the victim's husband has been missing since the incident an...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - A world-renowned tech giant has partnered with South African government to train 6,000 post-graduate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) students and tech practitioners in 5G and "Fourth Industrial Revolution" technologies. Ten university students from various institutions around the country are currently on a study...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Allegations of racism have surfaced following student protest action at Glenhaven Secondary school at Phoenix north of Durban. Approximately 1,000 learners are believed to have stoned vehicles and damaged school property during yesterdays strike action. Local security company boss, Prem Balram says four of his reaction officers...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The Administrative Adjudication of the Road Traffic Offences Amendment Act (AARTO) will now cost drivers up to R500 if they continue to ignore their payments for e-tolls. That's according to the DA Shadow MEC for Roads and Transport in Gauteng, Fred Nel. About 75% of road users in Gauteng have refused to pay e-tolls since intro...