Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is in talks with the South African Revenue Service (SARS) to allow "garnishee" orders in an effort to recover E-Tolls debts. A garnishee order is a court order to deduct an amount every month from a persons salary in settlement of a debt. The talks between SANRAL and SARS stems f...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The African pangolin has been around for over 40 million years but chances are, you've never seen one. That's because the scaly ant-eating mammal is one of the most secretive creatures on earth. The pangolin is also one of the most trafficked animals in the world. Non-profit organisation - Pangolin. Africa is hoping to change...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - A new South African Indian gangster tale has hit the country's big screens. The action thriller, entitled Mayfair, stars popular local actors Jack Devnarain and Rajesh Gopie. The movie tells a compelling story of a young boy who returns home to the residential suburb of Mayfair in Johannesburg where his overbearing loan shark...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - With this week being World Anti-biotic Awareness Week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says more than 700-thousand people a year die from untreatable infections due to anti-biotic resistance. This resistance occurs when bacteria changes in response to the use of medication. Anti-microbial Portfolio Manager at Pharma-Dynamic...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Durban based cartoonist Nanda Sooben believes the legacy of Stan Lee - the legendary writer and publisher of Marvel Comics who passed away yesterday, will live forever. Lee - who dreamt up the likes of Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther and several other Marvel Comics superheroes, died at the age of 95. Th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - Controversial VBS Mutual Bank has been liquidated following a high court ruling in Pretoria. The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) placed VBS under curatorship earlier this year after it had experienced what had then appeared to be a liquidity crisis. Economist Professor Dilip Garach joined Matthew this morning to discuss what...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The City of Johannesburg has released 84 properties to the private sector to be turned into low-cost housing, student accommodation and small business areas. The city's forensic and investigation unit has identified just over 500 abandoned and hijacked buildings. It's encouraging people who had their buildings hijacked to come...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Human trafficking has become a growing concern in South Africa. It's reported that syndicates are using sophisticated techniques in the abduction of people. Greenwood Park residents have now been urged to attend a human trafficking talk in Durban later today. One of the speakers is Vanessa Chetty - who will be giving her testim...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Matthew Veeran - President Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted the resignation of Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba shortly before embarking for the seventh South Africa-European Union summit in Brussels. Transport Minister Dr. Blade Nzimande will take over the portfolio on an interim basis. Gigaba made headlines in recent weeks for lying under oath...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - South African-based companies have been challenged to bring about technological ideas in a bid to harness the power of innovation and invest in digitalisation, to stay abreast in the global digital race. This is according to Durban based innovation specialist and digital thought-leader, Laura Thomas-Gilks. Gilks explains how a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The City of Johannesburg says even though they have more than 50 years of burial space at its 38 cemeteries, residents need to consider alternative burial options. One of the alternatives on offer is a controversial one - burying up to three people in the same grave. Spokesperson for Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, Jenny Moodl...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - A newly launched movement called the World Consciousness Alliance (W.C.A) is hoping to create a platform that will save the planet from degradation. The global movement has been created to promote peace, positivity and compassion so that the next generation can live in harmony. Founder of W.C.A - Mohanjhi explains...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Former Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan has revealed to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture - that former President Jacob Zuma interfered in the appointments of senior positions especially when it came to Transnet's CEO. Hogan says the former President only wanted Siyabonga Gama to occupy the post. The former Enterprises Minister was giving her tes...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Power utility Eskom says the possibility of load shedding has increased due to low coal stockpiles at five of its power stations. Eskom provides about 90% of the country's electricity AND says a backlog from suppliers has drastically reduced the level of coal at most of its power stations. Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe expla...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department has undertaken to investigate cases of long waiting periods for women awaiting mammograms. This comes as MEC - Sibonginseni Dhlomo - called a media briefing to highlight the steps they have taken to reduce the waiting periods for radiotherapy from six months to three weeks. The Human Rights Commission released a damning report las...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Medical experts are investigating a Salmonella food poisoning outbreak in Durban after at least 20 people had been admitted to hospital. Laboratory group, Lancet has also warned doctors of the increase in the number of Salmonella cases. The exact source of the food poisoning, in various places in the metro, has not yet been identified. Dries Liebenberg reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - In this week's Newsbreak Legends Series - we profile Sam Prakash. The 71-year-old was the bodyguard to Nelson Mandela - South Africa's first democratic President - during his visitation in KwaZulu-Natal following his release from prison in 1990...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Sri Lanka has been plunged into political crisis after President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved Parliament at the weekend. The President has called for a snap election early in the New Year, leaving the country in turmoil. Sirisena had already taken control of all state media outlets soon after dismissing Prime Minister Ranil W...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Explosive evidence is expected at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture when former and current ministers of Public Enterprises, Barbara Hogan and Pravin Gordhan, take the stand this week. In her evidence today, Hogan will testify on how some members of the Gupta family pressured her into scrapping a lucrative flight route between Johannesburg and Mumba...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - As the festive season approaches, the South Coast Tourism Authority has encouraged South Africans to visit the jewel of the KwaZulu-Natal province despite fears over water scarcity in the Ugu District on the South Coast. South Coast Tourism Chief Executive Officer - Phelisa Mangcu has assured tourists that plans are in place to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The community of Phoenix, north of Durban say they are under siege as violent crimes spiral out of control. Last week a man was found beaten to death at the Stanmore Park. Family, friends and well-wishers said their last goodbyes to 32-year-old Christopher Padayachee at the Verulam Crematorium. Close friend, Daniel Rudy Chettiar s...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Justice for Baby Jamie, but is it really? 20 years in prison for the mother who was complicit in the brutal murder of her three year old child. It's a crime that shocked the entire nation. But it's also raised some serious questions. On Saturday, Newsbreak Talk asked the tough questions...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - November marks the 158th anniversary of the arrival of Indian indentured labourers from India to South Africa. Many of them were recruited by the British in exchange on the promise of a better life. In this edition of unearthing their journey to the shores of South Africa, Newsbreak speaks to 1860 Indentured Labourers' Foundat...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Executive Producer Salma Patel - A peace and reflection garden in honour of the 150th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and the 100th Anniversary of the first democratic President, Nelson Mandela will be launched in Durban by a Spiritual leader from India today. Brahmarishi Mohanji is the founder of the Mohanji and ACT foundation - which turns 15 years toda...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - The deadly street drug known as 'Sugars' is still tearing apart many lives and families in Chatsworth, south of Durban. The experimentation phase combined with peer pressure among the youth has proving more prevalent in recent years. Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo takes you through a difficult and painful path of 28-year-old Ray Na...