Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - An increase in the number of bullying incidents at a Durban school has prompted the principal to pen a letter about bullying to parents and guardians of learners at the school. Sastri College has been in the news since last year after a learner was allegedly stabbed because he stood up for his friend, who accidentally stepped on...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak's, Hafsa Mkhize - KwaZulu-Natal Police have welcomed the sentencing of 27-year-old convicted rock-thrower, Nkosinathi Mthalane. This after Mthalane was sentenced to 10 years in prison for malicious damage to property on Friday. It's alleged that earlier this year a motorist was travelling west bound on the N3 near Tollgate Bridge in his VW Polo when he...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - The shooting of two people in an alleged hijacking that took place in Chatsworth, south of Durban this weekend - has raised concerns about community involvement in fighting crime. It is believed that an 18-year-old male was seated in his car when he was approached by unknown suspects. Community members who were nearby saw what wa...

SABC News and Current Affairs — India's Narendra Modi flagged off celebrations to hail his fourth year in office. His government is set to splurge millions of dollars this week to count his achievements as prime minister. But critics say messy realities are now sinking in, as loud promises to the poor have proved to be mere hype amid colossal expectations. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn r...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Taresh Harreeparshad - More than 90% of lupus patients are women. But not much is known about this condition. Lupus is an auto immune disease - meaning the bodies immune system becomes over-active and starts attacking healthy tissue. In this week's Medical Monitor, Rheumatologist Dr. Neeta Patel explains how the disease can be treated...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A massacre of 13 people in South India is being likened to the 2012 Marikana killings as police snipers shot dead men and women protesting against a polluting copper plant in Tuticorin. 60 others were injured in the port town which has sparked calls for a national probe into the bloodbath. India correspondent Rana Senn reports...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - Through a partnership that spans over 14 years, the United States governement has invested more than 5.8 billion Dollars in the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Now, the U.S Consul General in Durban - Sherry Sykes has congratulated the KwaZulu-Natal government for the successful completion of the KZN One Million Vol...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - The ever-popular Phoenix Child and Family Welfare Society Fair will once again kick off this evening and run over the next two weekends at the Rydalvale Grounds in Phoenix, North of Durban. President of the Phoenix Child and Family Welfare Society, Sharm Maharaj says the annual fair is the charity organisation's biggest fund rais...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Ahead of Liverpool's Champions League final in Kiev - renowned local artist Collin Sabapathy chose to immortalise Liverpool hero Mohammed Salah in his latest work. A head shot of Salah against the Liverpool emblem and slogan has received a lot of attention. Sabapathy's work is featured in dozens of collections across the globe...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Tourism is one of the largest sectors in the world that is fuelling growth, creating jobs - as well as providing an olive branch to poverty stricken communities in Africa. This has been the message and key note delivered at the "International Conference on Digitalisation and Sustainable Tourism in Mauritius". The conference co...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Three year old Poppie van der Merwe's biological mother and stepfather have been sentenced in the Pretoria High Court to life in prison for her murder in October 2016. Louisa and Kobus Koekemoer were also sentenced to then years in prison each for child abuse of Poppie and a five-year-old boy. Poppie died in Brits in North West due to severe blunt force trauma to he...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - The Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal say their investigators are working around the clock to secure an arrest in the Ottawa mosque attack. This comes after the Imam Hussein Mosque in Ottawa near Verulam, north of Durban was attacked earlier this mont. Days later, a bomb was found underneath the chair of the Imam before prayers. Spok...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Two suspects have been arrested for attempted murder, 40 arrested for disturbing the peace and 50 vehicles impounded following the violent taxi protest that broke out in Chatsworth, south of Durban on Thursday. Police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele says the protest began as a result of a dispute between the Chatsworth Taxi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - The Tsakane taxi rank in Brakpan, east of Johannesburg remains temporarily shut down, following taxi violence that left four people dead and six injured on Thursday. According to local police, conflict between taxi owners and the MEC started on Sunday. The violence broke out after a convoy of taxis went to the Brakpan Taxi Ass...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Rachel Vadi - One person was shot and another seriously assaulted during violent protest action in Chatsworth, south of Durban on Thursday morning. Mbhele says violence between two taxi associations broke out following a disagreement over a court ruling. She says police had to use rubber bullets to disperse the crowd...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Following the shooting of a Phoenix women, police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele says following the successful hostage negotiations, the suspect has been arrested and will appear in court once he has been charged....

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - A Phoenix woman believed to be in her late thirties, is fighting for her life after she was shot, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend. It is believed that the suspect shot her three times at her home in Stonebridge, in Phoenix, north of Durban. Medics from a private security Company - KZN VIP attended the scene and transported her to h...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - A Phoenix woman believed to be in her late thirties, is fighting for her life after she was shot, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend. It is believed that the suspect shot her three times at her home in Stonebridge, in Phoenix, north of Durban. Medics from a private security Company - KZN VIP attended the scene and transported her to h...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Taliesha Naidoo - Two South African sisters have joined forces to raise environmental awareness through literature. 12-year-old Taskeen and 10-year-old Mahdiyyah Wadee recently unveiled their books during a dual book launch in Johannesburg. The books titled, "The Horn of Africa" and "The Song of the Sunbird" tackles two of the country's greates...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim - In a bid to help solve the water crisis in Cape Town, marine experts are planning to tug icebergs from Antarctica to South Africa. Researchers say that around two billion tons of ice breaks off larger icebergs in Antarctica every year - and that this could be an opportunity to guide these smaller icebergs towards the mother cit...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The Archbishop of Delhi has called for a prayer campaign until India's next general election in a message seen as an unprecedented political intervention by the Church. Anil Couto said he was prompted by tensions between religious minorities and Hindu bigots who are the bedrock of India's right-wing regime. Our South Asian correspondent Rana Senn reports....

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer Tashlan Naidoo - Only five to eight thousand of the 50-thousand dialysis patients in South Africa are receiving treatment due to the lack of organ donors in the country. This according to director of communication at the "Organ Donor Foundation" - Jooste Vermuelen. Earlier this week, a nine year old boy from Isipingo, South of Durban died at a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, hafsa Mkhize - Unity amongst africans is crucial to promote social cohesion in all communities. That's according to CEO of African Rennaisance Andrzej Kiepiela, who was responding to the latest attack on foreign nationals. Last week, KwaZulu-Natal police closely monitored some of Durban's northern townships after a local business association i...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Tashlan Naidoo - Captain Vinny Pillay, of the Umhlali police station, north of Durban is South Africa's 2018 "Integrity Idol" winner. The policeman walked off with the award at a ceremony at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town at the weekend. Integrity idol is a campaign run in Nepal, Pakistan, Mali, Nigeria and South Africa by citizens in searc...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The Gauteng government is to start deploying unmanned aerial vehicles or drones to infrastructure sites to monitor delivery, safety compliance and identify blockages. It's hoped this will help minimise corruption and ensure that projects are delivered within the set time frames. Previously, it was found that some project managers would give wrong information that pr...