Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - In this week's Newsbreak Legend Series, we profile a Durban newspaper columnist, psychologist and former dean of student development of the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal - Dr. Devi Moodley Rajab. The award-winning journalist devoted her life to breaking the norms of society in a day and age when most wouldn't dare as she stood u...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Emergency services have had their hands full this past weekend as more than ten people died on KwaZulu-Natal roads in separate incidents. KZN Emergency Medical Services spokesperson Robert McKenzie says crashes in various parts of the province had claimed the lives of of the deceased‚ six of which died in one accident. In one...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - South African song bird, Shashika Mooruth, has made history at the South African Music Awards or SAMA held on Saturday night by becoming the first South African of Indian origin to be bestowed with the SAMA International Achiever Award. Mooruth says she feels extremely proud of the recognition. She says the highlight of the evenin...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - Another person has died following a shooting that took place in Overport, in Durban on Saturday night. It is believed that an off-duty police officer tried to intervene in an argument between two passengers in a taxi. Police spokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala says one of the two men tried to fire his gun at the police officer, bu...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Taresh Harreeparshad - Community Safety and Liason MEC Mxolisi Kaunda says that there is an assessment underway to investigate the conduct of police officers at certain stations. This follows widespread criticism of police efforts to curb crime at Chatsworth, south of Durban. Last week a nine-year-old Sadia Sukhraj was killed in a botched hijac...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Indian troops fired gun shots at a weekend funeral march of a man killed when he was run over by an armoured car in Jammu and Kashmir. The police imposed a curfew in parts of the capital Srinagar and blocked the internet, as politicians blamed each other for the spiralling unrest in India's only Muslim-majority state. South Asia correspondent Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - The driver of a bakkie which collided with a mini-bus taxi on Sunday morning has died after he was allegedly shot by the owner of the taxi. KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala says the collision took place along Waterfall Road in Durban at about 11am. She says when the owner of the taxi arrived on the scene of...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - The annual sardine run is almost here, with the silvery delicacy expected to brace the shores of Durban in the next month. This is as millions of sardines travel from the cold southern oceans off South Africa's Cape Point, hugging the shore as they make their way up along the coastlines of the former Transkei area. Visible even...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Tashlan Naidoo - The South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) has condemned the abusive manner in which police treated journalists while covering a protest outside the Chatsworth Police Station, earlier this week. SANEF council member Mary Papayya says, they have had discussions in the past with top government officials and police, on the role of journalists...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - The wait is finally over! The internationally acclaimed South African crime thriller - Nommer 37, is finally heading to local cinemas today. Directed by KwaZulu-Natal's very own Nosipho Dumisa, the thriller has been sparking massive interest with international audiences. It tells a story about gangsterism, drugs and corruption...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Talisha Naidoo - A placard demonstration will take place shortly at the Higginson Highway in Chatsworth, south of Durban. The demonstration will be held to raise awareness against gun violence. Newbreak spoke to educator and Lotus FM Presenter Mala Lutchmanan who will be part of the demonstration...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - India's government plans to snoop on people's online postings and even read their e-mails. It was seeking a company with the ability to track trends, topics and Twitter hashtags and also data mine individual social media accounts. Critics said this will create a mass surveillance tool. Newsbreak Tashlan Naidoo spoke to our Indi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Hafsa Mkhize - KwaZulu-Natal Police have launched a manhunt for four suspects involved in an attempted car hijacking at Avoca, north of Durban which left a 40-year-old man dead. It's alleged that the suspects were driving a silver Yaris when they accosted the deceased. Police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala has urged community members to not...

SABC News and Current Affairs — By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Tourism fuels growth, creates jobs and provide an olive branch to poverty stricken communities in Africa. This was the message and key note delivered at the "International Conference on Digitalisation and Sustainable Tourism in Mauritius" last month. The conference concluded by saying that tourism accounts for 10% of the global...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Tourism experts, including government and commercial travel companies converged on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius last month, for the International Conference on Digitalisation and Sustainable Tourism. The conference aimed to interrogate international travel concerns and looked at ways for countries to capitalise on sustainable tourism. The challenges faced by...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Teachers and fellow classmates of slain Sadia Sukhraj are still reeling in shock and disbelief at her untimely death on Monday. According to the Principal of Everest Primary School in Shallcross - Anesh Singh, the Department of Education will be providing councilling to all learners. Singh says nine year old Sadia was somone wh...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - 20 Chatsworth community members are expected to lay assault charges against officers from the Chatsworth police station with the Independant Police Investigative Directorate (IPID). They alleged that they were victims of police brutality on Monday night, after violent protest action outside the station. All twenty suspects...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Hafsa Mkhize - In response to the recent outcries by residents, the Department of Social Development in KwaZulu-Natal together with the Department of Community Safety and Liason in the province will host community dialogues to address the increasing criminal activities in Chatsworth and Shallcross, south of Durban. This is according to Social D...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - Non-profit organisation People Against Oppression have planned a "Palestine Solidarity Protest March" for this Saturday. The Durban rally is set to begin around midday outside the intersection of Stanley Copley Drive and Alpine Roads, heading towards the Overport Secondary School. The protest is in solidarity with the Palestini...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature - Maggie Govender, who attended yesterday's meeting with the MEC and the community meeting held last night at the Nelson Mandela Chatsworth Youth Centre says, while the issue of race has surfaced since Sadia Sukhraj's passing, crime is not a racial problem but rather a soci...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - If you're a parent then you've probably seen your little one beam with excitement and enthusiasm at the thought of starting a mini garden. Building on its massively successful "Little Shop" campaign, retailer Checkers has seen many young children taking to shovels and watering cans to plant their own fresh produce. This new...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Prabashini Moodley - It has been etched in the memory of many South Africans as the meeting point for political rallies, non-racial sporting events and even beauty pageants during the apartheid era. Now, the iconic Curries Fountain will be brought to life in a exhibition put together by the 1860 Heritage Centre. The exhibition will be launched...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Residents of Chatsworth and Shallcross say they are still angered by the tragic killing of Sadia Sukhraj. Shallcross resident - Adhir Ramlall says residents will continue their fight for a crime-free community...

SABC News and Current Affairs — MEC for Community Safety and Liaison in KwaZulu-Natal - Mxolisi Kaunda - says police operations will be stepped up in Chatsworth to curb crime. This is after nine-year old Sadia Sukhraj was killed in a shootout when her father's car was hijacked in this suburb south of Durban. Kaunda and the acting provincial police commissioner - Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi - met with the m...

SABC News and Current Affairs — In International Child Protection Week, a Durban community is reeling after losing a child to a botched hijacking. Nine-year-old Sadia Sukhraj lost her life in a hail of bullets on her way to school, when hijackers threw her father out his car and took off with her in it. The community is also crying foul against local police for the alleged brutality that they say...