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SABC News and Current Affairs — Deposits by Indians in Swiss banks swelled by over 50% last year. The revelation by the central banking authority of the Alpine nation now haunts India's government which assumed power on the back of promises of bringing home billions of dollars of untaxed money stashed in foreign vaults. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn has the details...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Salma Patel - Former Constitutional Court Judge and struggle veteran - Justice Zak Yacoob, has challenged EFF Leader Julius Malema to a public debate about Malema's recent Anti-Indian comments. At two recent events Malema has said that "majority of Indians are racists" - first during his Youth Day address in the North West and then later outside the N...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hoosen Ebrahim - Local fairytale fans have been given the opportunity to witness the wondrous and magical world of Disney at the Durban International Convention Centre from Wednesday until this Sunday. The ever-popular "Disney on Ice" show returns and will feature eight princesses from popular Disney classics including - Ariel, Belle, Cinderella, Rapu...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Durban Group areas proclamation of 1958. This proclamation affected many communities and became a tragic tale of racial discrimination that saw thousands of people being displaced from a place they called home. People from Magazine Barracks, Railway Barracks, Cato Manor, Seaview, Hillar...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Preliminary investigations into alleged police brutality outside the Chatsworth Police Station, south of Durban - is gaining momentum, with local crime watchdog committee, the Chatsworth Strategic High Intervention and Engagement for Local Development, Known as Shield - requesting residents who may have witnessed the incident to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Matthew Veeran - With Youth Month coming to an end, a Durban DJ has urged young South Africans to follow their dreams and show confidence in everything they do. 24-year-old Carly Oosthuizen - also known as DJ Carly O, has been a revelation in the local music scene - with her pedigree growing at an astonishing pace. Carly O, known for her signa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Taliesha Naidoo - South Africa's schooling system is doing the country a complete disservice by producing candidates that aren't work-ready. Those are the sentiments being shared by Richard Payne - CEO of the online learning and training facility - iLearn. According to Statistics South Africa - the unemployment rate among young people aged between 15-...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hoosen Ebrahim - Judgement is expected today in the battle for a legal framework to recognise religious marriages at the Constitutional Court. The first steps towards this were taken in the 1990s, but activists say the wheels barely turned before they ground to a halt. The Western Cape High Court ruled in September 2017 that a spouse in a polygynous M...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hoosen Ebrahim - The Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) has contributed around five-billion-rand to the country's GDP in the last financial year. This has been revealed at the ICC's 21st anniversary celebrations in Durban earlier this week. Chief Executive Officer - Lindiwe Rakharebe - told Newsbreak in an exclusive interview that over 10-th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - Young writers and aspiring authors will now have a platform to showcase their skills at the Durban Book Fair on Sunday which is being held in commemoration of 100 years since the birth of former President Nelson Mandela. The fair will take place on the first Sunday of every month at the Mitchell Park Zoo in Durban from 9AM to 2PM. Acc...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - An initiative aimed at empowering youth to independently identify the most crucial issues affecting them and find solutions to deal with them as a collective, is being rolled out by the Active Citizens Movement. The ACM's youth representative Zia Maharaj says employment, education and racism are some of the popular issues identified....

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Prabashini Moodley - Over 2,000 Chatsworth residents have signed a petition, objecting to a proposed march this weekend by alleged land grabbers through the Silverglen Nature Reserve and Silverglen Lakeview Drive - south of Durban. This comes after a march last weekend, resulted in serious damage to the Nature Reserve. According to Chairperson of the...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - Motorists who travel through the M41 and N2 interchange between Umhlanga and Mount-Edgecombe can expect a reduced travel time of up to 24 minutes once all lanes of the newly constructed interchange is completed. This is according to the South African National Roads Agency project manager Corne Roux. The almost nine hundred million ran...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Professor Brij Maharaj has made comparisons between EFF leader Julius Malema to that of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Maharaj was speaking to Newsbreak in response to the recent racist comments made by Malema about the South African community of Indian heritage. In his Youth Day speech last w...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hoosen Ebrahim - Over one-bilion-rand is expected to be injected into the KwaZulu-Natal economy through tourism related events planned in the coming weeks. The above average climate and school holidays will also factor in to this, brining in over one-million tourists from various destinations around the globe. The Durban July is around the corner and...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - A survey conducted by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) revealed that inter-racial interaction takes place more often in public spaces rather than private spaces, only due to the fact that our legislature allows for all races to make use of public areas. This is according to University of Cape Town Professor Rajen Gov...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Prabashini Moodley - While attacks on the country's police officers is continuing unabated - the National Police Commissioner General Khehla Sithole has reiterated a call to the men in blue to not fall with their guns. Sithole condemned the killing of two Gauteng police officers in separate incidents, who stopped their vehicles to help what they thoug...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hafsa Mkhize - KwaZulu-Natal police are urging homeowners to be more vigilant as winter continues and crime intensifies. This as police are investigating cases of armed robbery and vehicle theft after two men were held hostage at their home yesterday at Snembe in Tongaat, north of Durban. It's alleged that the men were taken hostage for six hours by a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Prabashini Moodley - The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Professor Brij Maharaj has made comparisons between EFF leader Julius Malema and that of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Maharaj was speaking to Newsbreak in response to the recent racial comments made by Malema with reference to the South African Indian community. In his Youth Day speech last week in...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Hosted by Salma Patel and Produced by Rachel Vadi - Julius Malema said it and an airline passenger proved it. But is this case of racism cut and dried? Give your views a voice on Newsbreak Talk this Sunday at 1 o clock with me Salma Patel as we tackle racism and race-baiting and how these agendas are driven to lead on social media. Thats Newsbreak Talk - Sunday at o...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Hosted by Salma Patel and Produced by Rachel Vadi - Are South Africans posting too much on social media? Its the pictures - the videos - the unchecked comments - and the traps - Are South Africans posting too much on social media? Is it really free-for-all on any social media platform? Or could you land yourself in trouble if you don't play by the rules? Lets talk s...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Strap in and hold on to your seats as South Africa's favourite comedian - Leon Schuster will be back on the big screens with his new movie, "Frank & Fearless". The comedy, which will open at cinemas nationwide on the 23th of November, has been in production for about four years. It tells an inspiring yet emotional story of rhino conservation - with the perfect touch...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Hafsa Mkhize - Vitiligo patients often suffer from depression due to the social stigma attached to the disease. This is according to Dermatologist - Dr. Noufal Raboobee. This as the world commemorated World Vitiligo Day yesterday. Vitiligo is a condition in which the pigment is lost from areas of the skin, causing white spots - often with no clear cau...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - The South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (SANCA) says the country does not have enough rehabilitation facilities to accommodate the large number of drug users seeking help. This is according to the Director of SANCA Durban, Walter Pieterson. SANCA is this week observing their annual "Drug Awareness Week". T...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak's Tashlan Naidoo - A local artist has started free arts class for the youth at Moorton in Chatsworth, south of Durban - as this week marks the start of the mid-year school holiday. As Youth Month draws to a close - renowned artist Collin Sababathy says he initiated the class in an effort to keep children occupied and off the streets during the holiday p...