Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — The DA has officially launched its voter registration poster. This is as the party gears itself up for the country's 2019 General Elections. Despite a very challenging 2018 year, the party is confident that it will do well in the forthcoming elections, particularly in Gauteng. Mbali Thethani filed this report…

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Matric learners who have not achieved the results they have hoped for are being urged to look at alternative options. Counselling Psychologist - Dr. Rakhi Beekrum says parents should support their children through this emotionally difficult time...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, has told the 2018 top matric achievers that South Africa is looking to them to help move the country forward. She was addressing students who obtained the best marks at a Top Achievers Breakfast in Midrand, Johannesburg. The Independent Examination Board (IEB) has already announced that the class of 2018 has scored a 98-poi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer - Economists say the country's economic climate will improve in 2019 although not at the rate seen ten to fifteen years ago. Economists have painted a fairly improved picture and expect interest rates to rise, but the political climate to stabilise after elections. The South African Stock Exchange (JSE) opened its first day of trading for 2019...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Police divers are still searching for the body of a nine-year-old boy who went missing off Durban's Golden Mile on Tuesday. The boy had been swimming with friends near the pier on North beach when he disappeared beneath the surf. It's believed that the boy was caught in a rip current. In another incident, a 30-year-old man dro...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The millennial school of 2018 has surpassed expectations, maintaining their private schools 100 percent pass rate. Three students at the elite Crawford College bagged a full house of nine distinctions. Glenwood House college in George, in the Western Cape, boasted two students with seven distinctions and SAHETI, the greek school in Johannesburg, bagged 126 distincti...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Basic Education Minster, Angie Motshekga will officially announce the 2018 matric exam results in Johannesburg. This announcement will be broadcast on the SABC News Channel 404 and it will also be streamed live on the Department of Basic Education's website - as well as on Newsbreak. The exams were concluded in November last year. And close to 800-thousand full time...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Tension is mounting among close to 800-thousand young people who wrote matric in 2018, as the release of the results approaches. Clinical psychologist Charity Mkome says it is more stressful for children to write matric in this age, than it was for their parents. She offers advice on how expectations and the mounting tension can be managed. Dries Liebenberg reports....

SABC News and Current Affairs — South Africans are upbeat about the future after another tumultuous year. Among others the year 2018 saw the recall of President Jacob Zuma, the second removal of a sitting president in almost ten years, the economy slipping into a technical recession and allegations of state capture revealing massive looting at several state-owned enterprises. The year also saw the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — As Parliament is still in recess some MPs are expected back early in January to continue with outstanding business. Some of them are members of the Communications Committee who have to conduct interviews to fill the vacancies in the SABC Board. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more on what the responses of to SABC crisis has been thus far...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - A 53-year-old suspect is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrates Court after he was arrested in a 1.5 million rand drug bust this weekend. The arrest of the suspect at the upmarket townhouse in Umhlanga follows weeks of police surveillance, based on information received from members of the public. Police spokesperson Lieutena...

SABC News and Current Affairs — KwaZulu-Natal has already brought you a year-end series that has looked at the more dark and grim side of news events that took place in the province this year. From numerous cases of child abuse to bombings at places of religious worship and even ISIS-related cases, journalists were kept busy chasing the heavier side of news. But it was not all doom and gloom - man...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Rachel Vadi - The start of 2019 is just hours away and looking toward the year ahead, Newsbreak caught up with well-known local spiritual life coach, Baboo Manawar who shared his insight and predictions for the new year...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A group of residents have illegally occupied a piece of land behind the Taung Sports ground - outside Vryburg in the North West. The move forced one of the biggest annual events to change venue. The land belongs to the Batlhaping and was meant for development. Mpho Lepedi reports…

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The long weekend leading up to the New Year calls for celebration and the gathering of family and friends - but how safe do you feel celebrating the new year? While some members of the community may be on board with being out and about, others say they would rather have a quiet and safer time at home. Communications Officer for th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Cape Town Security Company, Professional Protection Alternatives, or PPA, has denied that it's personnel instructed beach goers who were picnicking at Clifton's Fourth Beach, to leave the beach. PPA says it was the City's law enforcement officials who actually closed the beach. The City earlier stated that PPA shut down the beach without its permission or consent. C...

SABC News and Current Affairs — North West Premier Job Mokgoro says four expelled mayors of municipalities that invested with VBS BANK will face criminal charges. Other implicated senior municipal officials will also be charged. Four municipalities invested a combined 314 million rand. Lucas Mothibedi reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Some Congolese nationals in Cape Town have expressed disappointment over the latest news that the provincial elections have been postponed to March next year in the three cities of Beni, Butembo and Yumbi in the North Kivu and Mai-Ndombe provinces. The BBC earlier reported that the Congolese Electoral Commissions decision to postpone the provincial elections in the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Police are investigating several cases of attempted murder and assault after a domestic dispute turned into a gun fight in Chatsworth, south of Durban, yesterday. It is believed that an argument between a husband and wife at Woodhurst in Chatsworth resulted in the husband opening fire on a number of suspects who then returned fire...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - KwaZulu-Natal Police Spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane says police are appealing to the public for any information that could help solve the murders of two people who were shot dead after unknown suspects opened fire on their vehicle on Christmas Eve in Colenso, north of Durban. One person is critically injured. It'...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Magashini Mottian - Indonesian rescuers used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by a tsunami that killed at least 429 people, warning more victims are expected to be uncovered as the search expands. Thick ash clouds continued to spew from Anak Krakatau, a volcanic island where a crater co...

SABC News and Current Affairs — 2018 saw KwaZulu-Natal becoming a focus for political killings. The killings cut across political lines with the ANC bearing the brunt, followed by the IFP and the NFP. Vusi Makhosini looks at some of the killings...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Police Minister Bheki Cele has announced Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi as the new Provincial Police Commissioner of KwaZulu-Natal. Mkhwanazi takes over from Mmamonye Ngobeni who resigned under a cloud of controversy after a year on suspension. Mkhwanazi has been holding a similar position in an acting capacity for the past six months. He has also worked with...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Deputy President David Mabuza, who delivered his Christmas Message for 2018, says that while this year has been a challenging one - South Africans "showed our resilience as a nation"...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Police are appealing to the public for any information following the murder of a tow-truck boss in Durban on Sunday night. It is alleged that a group of unknown suspects opened fire on the man as he was driving on King Dinuzulu Road before fleeing the scene. This is the second incident in which a tow-truck boss was gunned down...