Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — The State has revealed details of what it believes to be an escape plan by one of the Isis-linked accused in the murder case of Cape Town-based British botanists, Rodney and Rachel Saunders. However, accused Sayfudeen Aslam del Vecchio has denied that there are plans to escape from the Verulam Magistrates Court, north of Durban. Del Vecchio, his common law wife - Bi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Two weeks after India announced major constitutional changes in Kashmir - a communications blackout continues and political leaders remain locked up. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been trying hard to rally international condemnation of India's moves in Kashmir. Khan has repeatedly warned without evidence of an "impend...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - According to Statistics South Africa's 2018 general household survey, 17.9% of South Africans in metropolitan areas live in informal dwellings. The Institute for Race Relations found that there were 25 thousand shack fires between 2010 and 2013. Most of these fires occur during winter. In the most recent incident, three teenag...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Triple murder accused, Colin Pillay has told the Durban High Court that the night after the murders of his lover and her daughters were committed, he was with another female companion at the Kams Lodge in Phoenix, north of Durban. This is after he went fishing with his brother. Pillay is on trial for the murder of Jane Govindsamy and her two daughters, Denisha and R...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - A long, illustrious judicial career is coming to an end. Justice Edwin Cameron of the Constitutional Court is retiring from active service with effect from TODAY. He first graced the bench as an acting Judge of the High Court on in 1994. Justice Cameron worked as a human rights lawyer during the apartheid era, while defending A...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - Media Marketing is not an easy job, but try being a mum of two, wife and entrepreneur and that turns the difficulty level up a notch. That's what 38 year old Avani Roopan had to deal with when she entered the media marketing industry. Roopan says all it takes to succeed is challenging yourself and get out of your comfort...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Newsbreak Talk presented by Rachel Vadi and assisted by Shanell Daniel unpacks the top stories of the week.

SABC News and Current Affairs — Its the end of the Kings of Durban and we take a trip down memory lane finding out about the gangland and mafia that ruled Durban in the 50's and 60's. Our Guest on Newsbreak Talk is Deepak Panday.

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - Two men suspected of killing two security guards in Folweni, south of Durban will appear in Ntuzuma Magistrate court today. The two were arrested at the KwaMashu Hostels, north of Durban last week. This after police in KwaZulu-Natal launched a manhunt for the suspects following a killing of two security guards last month. KZN...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Four people have been seriously injured in a horrific three-vehicle collision on the M4, near Umhlanga, north of Durban a short while ago. Garrith Jamieson, spokesperson for Rescue Care Paramedics, says the three vehicles had collided with incredible force, leaving one occupant in a critical condition. Jamieson says traffic ha...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - Three teenagers have been killed at Umlazi F-section, south of Durban after a fire broke out at their home in an informal settlement early this morning. The cause of the fire is unknown at this stage and is being investigated by police. KwaZulu-Natal Emergency Medical Services spokesperson - Robert McKenzie says one person wa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - If you suspect that a police officer who approaches you is a fraud - you need to request official identification from them. This is the advise from police spokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala after suspects posing as police officers robbed and assaulted a family in Phoenix, north of Durban. She says the official identification shou...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Today India will begin easing restrictions imposed in Kashmir, after the state was sliced into two. The promise came after the daughter of one of its top politicians urged the international community to act over the clampdown on millions of people in the tinderbox Himalayan region. Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - While woman across the country are being celebrated this Woman's Month, 13-year-old Leela Gasper is certainly on her way to becoming a woman who gives back. Gasper has managed to collect over 60 handbags together with the help of her school in Durban North. This as part of her contribution to the ACT Foundations "100 Handbags C...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - A woman has been killed after she was electrocuted at her home on Buffelsdraai Road, in Verulam, north of Durban. Prem Balram, director for local security company, Reaction Unit South Africa, says the 43-year-old woman was allegedly boiling water in an urn for bathing purposes when she was electrocuted on Friday. Balram says th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Focus and hard work - those are two words of advice to all women by award-winning investigative television journalist, Devi Sankaree Govender. Best known for her hard-hitting reporting, Govender has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, having starting her career in radio. In this Women's Month feature, Govender sha...

SABC News and Current Affairs — ANC branch members and the eThekwini Regional Task Team have come out in support of the decision by the party's Provincial Executive Committee to recall Zandile Gumede as eThekwini mayor. Gumede was recalled along with other ANC deployee's in the municipality resulting in unhappiness amongst her supporters. Nonjabulo Mntungwa-Makamu reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Salma Patel - The 1860 Heritage Centre will be celebrating powerful women in society by hosting an in-conversation with Judge Navi Pillay tomorrow. A South African of Indian Tamil origin, Judge Pillay was the first non-white woman Judge of the High Court of South Africa, and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court an...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - The country's first land fund - The South African Housing and Infrastructure Fund (Sahif) has been launched. The fund, which was created in partnership with the department of human settlements, water and sanitation, aims to fill in the 1.7-million shortfall in the 5-million housing target that was set in 1994. It plans on doi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The murder case against two police officers and ten alleged members of the notorious Fast Guns gang from Westbury, west of Johannesburg, is underway at the Johannesburg Magistrates Court. Two police officers who were based at Sophiatown police station in Johannesburg and their co-accused, face charges including murder, possess...

SABC News and Current Affairs — One year after the murder of his wife and two daughters - Sagren Govindsamy says the thought of the trauma they went through in their final moments still haunts him. Govindsamy has been attending the triple murder trial of his wife's lover - Colin Pillay - in the Durban High Court. Govindsamy found the three bodies in their Phoenix flat -- north of Durban -- in Sept...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The Nelson Mandela Youth Centre at Chatsworth, south of Durban is appealing to the public for funds to help safeguard and maintain its computer lab. The lab will be used as a learning facility as well as an internet cafe open to the public. To help raise funds for the centre, an event commemorating 50 years of Woodstock, will t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - If Gender Based Violence is reported early on, death may not be the end result. This is according to Dr Shikaar Bagwandeen - the Chief Medical Officer at the Thuthuzela Care Centre at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Phoenix, north of Durban. Dr Bagwandeen says intimate partner violence is on the increase in many communitie...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A communications blackout in Kashmir entered its 11th day today with other curbs also in place on the revolt-torn region. The authorities for the first time conceded using deadly force to quell protests, but blamed the international media for stoking unrest against the state's break-up into two. Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - A caregiver has been arrested and charged for the attempted murder of a three-month-old baby girl. Police spokesperson in KwaZulu-Natal, Lieutenent Colonel Thulani Zwane, says the baby's mother had left her in the care of the 23-year-old woman at the Umlazi area, south-west of Durban, while she was at work on Wednesday. Upon he...