Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Tensions are high at Temple Valley Secondary School in Verulam, north of Durban. This after scores of learners embarked on a protest at the school yesterday. It's believed the students are demanding that the principal be removed from the school. Disgruntled learners, chanted struggle songs, allegedly threw stones and burned a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A number of distressed doctors and other health care professionals in Johannesburg have reached their boiling point following the non-payment of their January salaries. Reacting to this, spokesperson for the Gauteng Department of Health, Khutso Rabothata says those who are finding it difficult to commute to work, should apply for...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A number of distressed doctors and other health care professionals have reached their boiling point following the non-payment of their January salaries. Suhayl Essa, a community service doctor at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, who's also a comedian in his spare time - took to Facebook to satire his concerns....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In an effort to address the many challenges facing businesses in South Africa, the Minara Chamber of Commerce will host a "Business Coffee Connection" conference to find solutions and a way forward. The issues of processing time, documentation and releasing of imports at customs will all come to the fore at the event. There wil...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A Durban University of Technology student has died after being shot by campus security guards at SRC House opposite the Steve Biko campus in central Durban. This after the academic programme was suspended on Monday due to student protests. According to KwaZulu-Natal police, students stormed and stoned the building, causing a scuffled between students and campus secu...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - The body of a newborn baby has been found in a bin at Glenwood in Durban. The baby boy was found by a passer-by who contacted emergency services. Paramedics responded to the scene but the baby had unfortunately passed away before their arrival. Police are investigating the incident. Spokesperson for Rescue Care paramedics, Garr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - Putting oneself in an actual war-zone or refugee camp - could help journalists tell stories better. Thanks to the use of virtual reality, newsrooms can now train journalists to deal with situations through simulation and also share experiences with consumers. Visiting Journalism Professor Sri Kalyanaraman hosted a semina...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - From chaos and pandemonium in school spot searches, to the arrest of learners during organised search and seizure. How do you enforce discipline at schools without infringing on the rights of a child? Newsbreak Talk with Taresh tackled the sensitive subject this past Sunday...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - The case between Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan and EFF duo Julius Malema and Floyd Shivhambu has been postponed to next Monday. Gordhan wants the EFF leaders to be charged with crimen injuria, incitement of public violence and defamation. Last year Malema launched a scathing attack on Gordhan outside the Commission...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - International Childhood Cancer Day is around the corner and medical experts are stressing the importance of early detection - something that can drastically increase survival. According to the Childhood Cancer Foundation (CHOC) South Africa has some of the lowest survival rates when it comes to childhood cancers at 55%. In this...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) has been ranked in the top 100 "Think Tanks" worldwide for the ninth year in a row by the Pennsylvania University. ACCORD is a civil society organisation working throughout Africa to bring creative solutions to the challenges posed by conflict on the contin...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Preparations for the official opening of parliament are at an advanced stage as both the SANDF and SAPS will undertake their rehearsals TODAY and TOMORROW. The National Assembly maintains that the only agenda item on Thursday will be the State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Several roads in the Cape Town CD...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - 25 years into democracy, the issue of unity continues to be a thorn in the rainbow nation of South Africa. In a bid to foster social cohesion, the Gandhi Development Trust has launched a campaign to promote the teaching and learning of isiZulu - a story that was reported by Newsbreak last week. It is hoped that Gandhi's philosophy...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The University of KwaZulu-Natal has suspended all academic programmes in all its campuses in Durban. This after the students embarked on a violent protest demanding the university management to accept a memorandum of their demands. Student registration for the new academic year was supposed to start yesterday. Fanele Mlongo reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Congress of the People (COPE) leader Mosiuoa Lekota says South Africans must call for action against the revelations at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture - by going to the polls to vote for change. Lekota was speaking at a community engagement at Tongaat north of Durban. Only a handful of COPE supporters attended. Th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Over 50 illegal land invaders clashed with police in Clare Estate in Durban yesterday. This after residents have been reporting a massive spike in land grab incidents over the last week in the region. Police and law enforcement were met with burning tyres before all routes in the vicinity of Palmiet Road were blockaded. Communi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - The Forum for Service Delivery (F4SD) has described itself as one of the top ten political organisations in the North West and now they hope to make a bigger impact on a national scale. First established in 2014, the F4SD has strived to be a champion of the people, often campaigning on issues brought up by the community. At the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has condemned the racist sentiments made by Black First Land First's spokesperson, Lindsay Maasdorp, in relation to the Hoërskool Driehoek tragedy. Maasdorp came out in support of a Facebook user who said he "doesn't have a heart to feel pain" for the children who died at the school in Vanderbiljpa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - In this week's Newsbreak Legends Series - we profile long serving paramedic and the former principal of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health's Emergency Medical Services College in Durban - the late Pradeep Ashokcoomar. The 48-year-old passed away last month after losing a hard fought battle to Leukaemia. Newsbreak's Taliesh...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - One person was shot dead in his car on Friday - in what is believed to be ongoing taxi violence on the north coast of Durban. Director of local security organisation Reaction Unit South Africa (RUSA) - Prem Balram says paramedics who responded to the scene of the shooting on Greylands Road, Tongaat declared the driver dead at the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Advocate Shamila Batohi will today start her job as National Director of Public Prosecutions. Advocate Batohi will walk into the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) office in Pretoria as the sixth NDPP. During her interview process for the top job last year, Advocate Batohi described it as similar to jumping into a shark ta...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel - Today is annual World Hijab Day, a day set aside in recognition of millions of Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab. World Hijab Day was founded by New York resident, Nazma Khan, in 2013, in an effort to encourage women of all religions and backgrounds to wear and experience the hijab. Local organisation, Caring Sisters Ne...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Close to 2,500 people from the Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Municipality in the Harry Gwala District can now finally say that they are home owners. This follows the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements and Public Works completion and handover of the more than 54-million rand housing project yesterday. MEC for the Departme...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The "Please Call Me" campaign says it has achieved its objective despite getting a snub from Vodacom. Protestors demonstrated outside VodaWorld yesterday demanding that the company pay please call me inventor Nkosana Makate 70 billion rands or re-negotiate on the payments terms. Vodacom management failed to meet up with protestors outside their gates. VodaWorld was...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The SABC says it will embark on a skills audit, after deciding not to renew the retrenchment notice. The public broadcaster's management made the announcement yesterday (31/01/2019) at its headquarters in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. It says its decision is in the interest of the SABC, its employees, key stakeholders and the South African public at large. Hlengiwe M...