Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is confident that the state capture inquiry will lead to the arrest and recovery of the monies looted from state coffers. OUTA Chairperson - Wayne Duvenage urged civil society and organisations against corruption to come forward in a bid to gather strong evidence against those implicat...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hafsa Mkhize - Friends and former comrades at the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation have recalled the values of non-racialism‚ non-sexism and selflessness of anti-apartheid veteran Ahmed Kathrada. This as today marks 89-years since the late anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada was born in the then western transvaal region of South Africa. The founda...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Millions of Muslim pilgrims who undertook the Journey of Hajj are celebrating Eid-ul-adha in the holy lands of Mecca today. This marks the fifth and final day of hajj pilgrimage during which male pilgrims shave their heads and females cut a tip of their hair. It is then also followed by the slaughtering of an animal to mark th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak's Rachel Vadi - Fears of people not being cremated due to being overweight at the Tongaat crematorium, north of Durban - has been laid to rest by the chairperson of the KZN Funeral Directors Association, Logan Chetty. Recent reports of the furnaces not having the capacity to handle overweight bodies has raised alarm in the community. Chetty says there h...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Rachel Vadi and Dries Liebenberg - It was the final day of court proceedings in the Baby X criminal case today. In the Durban High Court the state argued that the mother of Baby X had the mental capacity to realise that hitting the three year old toddler with a high heel shoe in the face until she bled, could cause her death. The court also heard that the grandmo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - The brutal murder of an 82-year old senior citizen at Silverglen in Chatsworth has raised concern about the safety and security of residents in the area. Bayview Community Policing Forum, Brandon Pillay says residents have grown despondent because police are not doing enough to curb crime...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Muslim pilgrims early this morning began ascending Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for the climax of the annual hajj pilgrimage - which brings together more than two million people from around the world. There's been a sea of worshippers who scaled the rocky hill southeast of the holy city of Mecca for a day of prayers and reflec...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Matthew Veeran - 38-year old Mobeni Heights resident Gavaskar Naidoo is on a mission to help educate and inform people of a rare-illness he suffers from, known as "Arteriovenous Malformation" of AVM. The often misunderstood illness is a tangle of abnormal blood vessels connecting arteries and veins in the brain. Prior to 2010, Naidoo enjoyed a normal, active life...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Taliesha Naidoo - Today marks 89-years since the late apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada was born in the then western transvaal region of South Africa. To mark his birthday this year - The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has launched the "Youth Clubs Initiative", remembering the legacy of the struggle hero who died last year. The initiative will look to build the leader...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Tashlan Naidoo - Relief efforts are continuing following devastating floods that hit India's southern State of Kerala, with people from all over the world looking to assist. The century's worst flooding has killed 350 people and displaced a further 800,000 others. Now, the Telengana Rashtra Samithi - Non Resident Indians or TSR-NRI group from South Africa are col...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Hoosen Ebrahim - One of South Africa's largest anti-apartheid organisations, the United Democratic Front (UDF) - commemorated its 35th anniversary yesterday. Initiated in the 1980s - the UDF's goal has been to establish a "non-racial, united South Africa in which segregation is abolished and in which society is free from institutional and systematic racism." One...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Matthew Veeran - The century's worst flooding has killed 350 people and displaced 800,000 others in southern India's Kerala state. Hundreds are still missing or stranded and families separated yet hopes rose Sunday as rains abated for the first time this month in the once picturesque region lovingly called "God's Own Country". For the latest on the gr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Tashlan Naidoo - The dilapidated state of infrastructure at several hospitals and clinics in KwaZulu-Natal have been a growing concern on the department of health's budget. This was just one of the findings by the national portfolio committee for health found during the hospital visits in the province. The committee also visited National Health Insurance (NHI) pi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Taresh Harreeparshad - 71 years and still no final act in sight! That is how much veteran theatre actress Savy Ramsamy loves the stage. She has been acting since the 1960's in several hundred theatre productions, while still holding down a corporate day job, running a home and raising a family. As we celebrate iconic women this month, in this week's Newsbreak Leg...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Rachel Vadi - KwaZulu-Natal Police have discovered the gruesome remains of a family of three at a home at Marrianhill, west of Durban. It's believed that the bodies are in an advanced stage of decomposition. Two of the bodies have been found with stab wounds while the third was found hanging. A two-year-old child has been found unharmed. SAPS spokesperson Captain...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Rachel Vadi - There has been an increase in the number of violent crimes taking place at Lenasia, south of Johannesburg. In the latest incident, a former police officer and his girlfriend were gunned down in an alleged drive by shooting in the early hours of yesterday morning in Lenasia extension 2. Police spokesperson, Captain Mpanda Khoza says several rounds of...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Rachel Vadi - Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Judge Navi Pillay, has described the late former UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, as a dignified and compassionate person who continued to work for social justice after even after his retirement. Pillay had worked closely with Annan during his time as UN chief. In an interview with Rachel Va...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Rachel Vadi - The brutal murder of an 82-year old senior citizen at Silverglen in Chatsworth has raised concern about the safety and security of residents in the area. Bayview Community Policing Forum, Brandon Pillay says residents have grown despondent because police are not doing enough to curb crime...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - South African vehicle buyers have been on the receiving end of an unscrupulous money-making scam by motor dealerships who make them pay additional costs upon purchasing a vehicle. This has been revealed by a latest book entitled - ' Eff You Very Much" - which exposes how almost every car dealership adds illegal costs such as '...

SABC News and Current Affairs — This Women's Day, the often taboo subject of women perpetrating violence against each other, came under the spotlight. A young female music DJ was allegedly attacked by an older female patron at a restaurant in Umhlanga, north of Durban. Carly Bernadette Oosthuizen, popularly known as DJ Carly O, took to social media after her alleged attack. She wanted to speak out...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - The man accused of being the mastermind behind the murder of 20-year-old Kurtlee Pillay has been acquitted of all charges in the Durban High Court. Blaine Raman was accused of the kidnapping and murder of Pillay along with two others, Dinesh Nana and Bilal Tayob in November 2014. In a brutal incident, Pillay was stabbed severa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - A newly formed community crime fighting group at Chatsworth, south of Durban has proved to have a 100% efficiency rate since its inception. The "JestSilverRain" Community Watch has been formed to focus on crime, security, and civic matters. The group covers Jesters Avenue, Silverwest Avenue and Rainbow Crescent in the Westclif...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Rachel Vadi - From the worldwide hit "Natural Woman" to the confidence-boosting power anthem "R-E-S-P-E-C-T", the "Queen of Soul" Aretha Franklin will forever be remembered as the grand old dame of soul. Franklin died late yesterday afternoon at her home in Detroit, Michigan. She was 76 years old. The legendary singer and performer was gravely ill for some time a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - Thousands of women are set to take the Durban beach-front by storm on Sunday for the ninth annual Sari Stroll. Since its inception, the event has grown exponentially to become one of Durban's largest gatherings on the beach. This year's theme will focus on improving social cohesion - while identifying the various issues that affect wo...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Tashlan Naidoo - The Nelson Mandela Youth Centre at Chatsworth, South of Durban will be hosting free drama classes every week starting tomorrow. The classes are aimed at promoting professional tuition in the hope of improving the heritage languages and building confidence. Educator and drama teacher behind the initiative, Jasmine Raghunath says its been her life-...