Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — Former City of Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, has unveiled the name of her new political party. "The Good Movement" is set to contest the 2019 elections in all provinces. de Lille announced this during a press conference, in Houghton in Johannesburg. Mbali Thethani reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The body of yet another person found near an alleged drug den at Phoenix, north of Durban, has raised the alarm in the community. This is according to Phoenix Crisis Centre Chairperson, Moulana Mohamed Tariq. He says the number of bodies found in the precincts of Phoenix recently is of grave concern and residents are beginning to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - A surge in gang-related shootings and incidents of violence has engulfed the northern areas of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The Portfolio Committee on Police has decided to visit the areas following calls from the community for a parliamentary intervention. Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Mr Francois Be...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In this week's Newsbreak Legends Feature we speak to Doctor Sanil Duleep Singh, a Durban-based veterinarian who has dedicated his life to nature conservation and animal welfare work. Dr Singh is a trustee of the Mitchell Park Trust - the custodian body for all educational and conservational programmes and activities that take p...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - 180 governments, including South Africa, met at the recent Global Tobacco Treaty negotiations that mandated a research study on new tobacco products, including heat-not-burn products - which pose a threat to public health, particularly to children. This as the world's biggest tobacco company launched the IQOS (I Quit Ordinary S...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - People with disabilities are vulnerable to various forms of abuse. They are rarely taught their human and civil rights. Newbreak Talk on Sunday took the conversation forward and posed the question, are physically disabled people more vulnerable than others in society?

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The 1st of December marks the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day. This Saturday's edition of Newsbreak Talk welcomed AIDS researchers from varous walks of life, who discusssed how to live POSITIVELY with HIV/AIDS...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Cape Town-based child protection expert - Joan van Niekerk says research suggests that the 16 Days of Activism Campaign does not have any positive impact to the country's fight against social ills that have gripped the nation. van Niekerk, who works among numerous non-governmental organisations, assists victims of gender-based...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - According to the latest United Nations AIDS data, more than seven million people are living with HIV in South Africa. About 4.2 million are women and 280,000 are children. The country also has the largest anti-retroviral treatment in the world. More than 90% of the people know their status, but only 61% of them are receiving AR...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Police will be intensifying their presence as the annual matric Rage Festival begins at Umhlanga and Ballito, north of Durban tomorrow. More than 15,000 youth from across South Africa will head to Ballito and Umhlanga for eight days and seven nights of sun, fun, parties and music. Metro Police spokesperson, Senior Superintenden...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - Advocacy groups are brimming with joy as the Civil Union Amendment Bill was passed in Parliament allowing same-sex couples to marry. The bill will force marriage officers from various faiths to officiate same-sex marriages. The issue was highlighted by COPE pointing out that Section 6 of the bill was discriminatory. Legal exper...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) has made a clarion call for people to make a difference as a shortage of blood looms in the country. As the festive season approaches - blood stocks are depleting in KwaZulu-Natal. Due to the shortage, the blood service has planned special blood drive promotions over the festive...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in the case about whether parents should be allowed to spank their children. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng questioned whether it was possible to overcome the constitutional right to freedom from violence if reasonable and moderate chastisement was not outlawed. Newsbreak's Hoosen E...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Taliesha Naidoo - Civil society groups and human rights organisations are outraged by the increasing crimes against women and children. Founder of Operation "Bobbi Bear" - Jackie Branfield says parents should be reminded to NOT to leave their children alone, especially when strangers are around...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Former Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramathlodi has told the commission of inquiry into state capture, that the landing of a Gupta family charted aircraft at Waterkloof Airforce Base, was the last insult to the country. Ramathlodi presented his evidence to the commission taking place in Parktown in Johannesburg. He occupied the position of Mineral Resources befo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Dros rape suspect, Nicholas Ninow's rape case has been postponed to January next year. Ninow will be sent to a district surgeon for mental evaluation as an interim measure, until a bed becomes available for him at the Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital in Pretoria West. The 22-year old cried during his appearance in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court. He is accused of rap...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The Merebank community, south of Durban is still mourning the death of a well-known elderly woman. 79-year-old Dhanwathie Fakira was allegedly bludgeoned to death by a 37-year-old man on Sunday evening. It's believed Fakira and the suspect had a landlord and tenant dispute which led to the murder. Police have confirmed that a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has provisionally dropped its charges relating to the Estina dairy farm corruption. The case involved the controversial Gupta family, their business associates and some Free State department of agriculture officials. The NPA had earlier asked the Bloemfontein regional court to postpone t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Rachel Vadi - "Footstep to the Future" is an initiative lead by 18-year-old matric learner Clarissa Chetty. Chetty says she wanted to leave a legacy behind and came up with the idea of getting other matriculants to donate their school shoes and uniforms to disadvantaged learners at their school. On Monday around 50 learners from the Woodview Secondary...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The Nelson Mandela Youth Centre at Chatsworth, south of Durban will host free legal advice for women and children this week during the 16 days of no violence campaign. Gender abuse in the residential suburb is not a subject that is widely spoken about. The community was reminded when Rajen Kandasamy bludgeoned his wife Versha a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The King of Bollywood, Amitabh Bachan will be coming to South Africa next year. Bachan together with his son Abhishek, daughter-in law Aishwarya Rai and actress Susmita Sen will be travelling to Cape Town for the filming of the long awaited movies - Happy Anniversary and Aankhen 2. In an exclusive interview Producer - Gaurang...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - South Africa has become a multi-billion rand illicit cigarette haven. A Gauteng-based market research organization IPSOS, has found in its latest survey that illegal cigarettes have now captured over 42% of the country's informal trade and is available in three out of every four shops. As a result of this, the country is losing...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The wife of a Phoenix taxi-owner who was gunned down outside their Eastbury home, north of Durban is contesting a 6.4 million Rand life insurance pay-out. The insurance company declined to pay Keshnee Gounden, whose husband Vernon John was killed almost two years ago. The company in question rejected the claim and voided the po...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Eleven accused in connection with the Verulam Mosque attack earlier this year have been granted bail. Magistrate Irfan Khalil told the Verulam Magistrates Court that the State's case against the eleven accused in the mosque attack was weak and likely to fail. Eight of the eleven suspects were granted bail of between 3000 and 200,000 rand each. The remaining three ac...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Google has launched a new app that will allow parents to track and monitor what their children are doing with their mobile devices. The recently launched "Google Family Link App" will allow parents to lock, manage apps on their children's phones, keep-an-eye on their screen time and even set a bedtime remotely. Creators of the...