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SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - The re-trial of Nigerian Pastor Timothy Omotoso and his co-accussed will resume at 2PM this afternoon at the Port Elizabeth High Court. Omotoso, Zukiswa Sitho and Lusanda Sulani are facing 97 charges that include alleged rape, human trafficking, racketeering and sexual assault. Judge Irma Schoeman is expected to make a ruling...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A Bollywood thriller has swayed millennial Indians as it exposes the brutal realities of caste. "Article 15" hit cinemas just ahead of a caste-driven massacre and a suicide by a young doctor from the marginalized Dalit class, which for centuries has suffered social indignities in the country Our India correspondent Rana Senn filed this report ...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - Students from the University of South Africa in Durban have resumed their protest action today. It is Day 2 that lectures have been disrupted by protesting students. This morning, students were seen burning a fire outside of the Durban campus. Spokesperson for UNISA in KwaZulu-Natal - Siyabonga Seme says issues regarding the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer , Tashlan Naidoo - With the grim reality of ridding drug dealers from our communities becoming an almost impossible task, the Anti-Drug forum at Chatsworth south of Durban has decided to take awareness and education to the next level. The forum has for the first time partnered with the KwaZulu-Natal department of Education and is in the process...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Cebisile Mkhize - A 36-year old woman found with liquid drugs at King Shaka International Airport over the weekend remains in custody. Yangaphi Ntombizanele appeared in the Verulam Magistrate Court, north of Durban on charges of drug dealing and drug possession. South African Police Service - Brigadier Vish Naidoo says Ntombizanele was arreste...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - The Land Reform Advisory Panel has recommended that the Ingonyama Trust Act be reviewed or possibly repealed. The panel has recommended that government immediately assume responsibility and custodianship of the trust's land and administer it on behalf of its citizens. The Ingonyama Trust Act led to the establishment of the tru...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Chatsworth motorists can breath a sigh of relief as the M1 Higginson Highway near Shallcross will reopen tomorrow. This after a part of the highway collapsed due to the torrential floods that ripped through the province in April this year. Ward 71 councillor, Previn Vedan - who played an oversight role during the entire constr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Business people in the greater Durban area are being cautioned against the risk of kidnapping following the kidnapping and carjacking of a businessman and his employee earlier this week. Three armed men allegedly entered the scrapyard business in Ottawa, north of Durban where 44-year old Dawood Safla and his employee Shafee -...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Shanell Daniel - A drop in temperatures is expected with an extreme cold front hitting certain parts of the country. Forecaster at the South African Weather Services , Vanetia Phakula, says the cold front began earlier this week and is expected to subside by this weekend. Phakula says no flooding is expected, however those living in low lying...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Shanell Daniel - Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies warned yesterday that a U.S. trade-blacklisting will impact short-term revenue growth. This even as its half-year revenue surged 23 percent - thanks to soaring smartphone sales at home. In this week's Techno-Touch we find out more about the tech giants first results since Washington place...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Cebisile Mkhize - The man accused of killing a teenager earlier this month made a second appearance at the Chatsworth Magistrate Court YESTERDAY. KwaZulu-Natal Police Spokesperson Lieutenant-Colonel Thulani Zwane says the 19 year-old victim was stabbed to death by the 22-year old accused following an argument at the Welbedacht area, in Chatswo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Cebisile Mkhize - The trial against the man accused of a triple murder in Phoenix is underway at the Durban High Court today. Collin Pillay is standing trial for the murders of 44-year old Jane Govindsamy and her daughters - Denisha and Rackelle - which took place last year. Yesterday the accused pleaded not guilty at the Durban High Court. Ou...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - A manhunt is underway for suspects linked to the kidnapping of a prominent Verulam businessman. A businessman and an employee were kidnapped yesterday by three unknown armed suspects - at a business premises at Pinewood Road, in Ottawa, north of Durban. Prem Balram, director for local security company, Reaction Unit South Afri...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by SABC News Dries Liebenberg - The teacher accused touching the breasts of a grade 11 learner at a Durban School, while pushing her during an altercation, has been placed on precautionary supension pending an investigation. The father of the girl - who wants to remain anonymous - says since the incident last week at the Grosvenor Girls High School in the Bluff. All...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Shanell Daniel - While there is NO confirmed OUTBREAK of the H1N1 influenza virus in KwaZulu-Natal, a simple swab is what's needed to determine whether or not one has the 'common' influenza - or the H1N1 virus. This according to Doctor Prithi Ramlachan, a general practitioner based in Durban. In this week's Medical Monitor we look at how these...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak producer, Tashlan Naidoo - The start of the 2019/2020 English Premiership season is just two weeks away and the annual curtain raiser- the F.A community shield will take place this Sunday with Liverpool taking on Manchester City. The much anticipated final will take place at the Wembly stadium at 4pm and fans will be in for a treat as the European and E...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak producer, Shanell Daniel - Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has appointed Jabu Mabuza as the interim executive chair for Eskom and acting CEO of Eskom Holdings. This at an Eskom Annual General Meeting yesterday. The interim appointment follows the resignation of Phakamani Hadebe who is set to leave Eskom by tomorrow. Adrian Lackay, spokesperso...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - The University of KwaZulu-Natal has confirmed that the academic programme will resume today. This follows an alleged clash between campus security and students during a protest on both the Howard and Westville Campuses last week. Students have been protesting over marks that they are not satisfied with aswell as residential an...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by newsbreak Producer, Shanell Daniel - Day one of the trial against the man accused of murdering a Phoenix mother and her two daughters in September last year, is underway at the Durban High Court today. Collin Pillay allegedly killed Jane Govindsamy and her daughters - Denisha and Rackelle - at separate times at their flat at Tasvir Mansions, in Phoenix, north of...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Intern, Cebisile Mkhize - More than thirty people have sustained injuries in two separate taxi accidents in Durban. Garrith Jamieson, spokesperson for Rescue Care Paramedics, says 20 people sustained injuries when two taxis collided on the corner of Anton Lembede street and William Road Khuizimphi Shezi Road in Durban, today. In a seperate incident yest...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema over the weekend reiterated that Public Enterprise Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan would go no matter what. Malema was speaking at the party's sixth birthday celebration in Mpumalanga. Malema said once his party pronounced on the fate of an individual, it would follow up until it...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Our SABC News reporter, Maluti Obuseng, attended court proceedings today. He says that the court found that the interdict was vague and nonsensical...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Round 1 in Gordhan Vs the Public Protector goes to - Jamnadas Gordhan! "Vague, contradictory and/or nonsensical" - that's how Judge Sulet Potterill has described the Public Protector's report in the High Court Application by Public enterprises Minister Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan. The High Court in Pretoria has suspended the Public Protector's remedial action against Go...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Executive Producer, Salma Patel - And now, its time for the Kings of Durban by Deepak Panday. Newsbreak's Salma Patel spoke to Panday about the Legends of the 1950'S Mafia underworld.......

SABC News and Current Affairs — by reporter, Dries Liebenberg - Judge Hilary Squires, who found Schabir Shaik guilty of corruption in connection with payments to former president Jacob Zuma, has died. He will be laid to rest on Wednesday. Friends and colleagues remember him as fiercely independent, and someone of great integrity who did not hesitate to speak his mind. Dries Liebenberg reports