Newsbreak

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - The extensive Durban CBD clean-up campaign - launched by the eThekwini Municipality Mayor, Zandile Gumede has allegedly created a massive uproar from road side traders. The campaign aims to address cleanliness and safety related issues which include crime and illegal trading. Chairman of The Market Users Committee - Nico Magwaza...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Big dreams coupled with a single-minded determination and hard work has paid dividends for an accounting fundi, who has been appointed the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Road Accident Fund (RAF). Formerly from Phoenix, north of Durban, Rodney Gounden grew up with ambitions of studying and becoming a Charted Accountant....

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Executive Producer, Salma Patel - The new leadership team at Ithala Development Finance Corporation unveiled a fortified strategy to maximise development opportunities in the province. Presented under the theme "Next Generation Leadership" the new board promises fresh thinking, diversity and socio-economic transformation. Newly appointed Chairman of Ith...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and probably won't be the last. Thats the cautionary tale for the 2017 laureate who will be named next week. Suu Kyi is facing international criticism, including from fellow peace pr...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Phoenix police are urging members of the public, who may have information regarding the body of a women that was found at the weekend to come forward. Communications officer for the Phoenix police station, situated north of Durban - Captain Louise Naidoo says - officers were called out to Sastri Park on Sunday morning where the body of a women in her forties was fou...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The South African Hindhu Maha Sabha has confirmed that Diwali has NOT been declared a public holiday. This is contrary to what the South African Tamil Federation issued in a statement and elaborated in an interview on Newsbreak yesterday. However, employees should instead get the day off as a religious holiday. Chairperson of the umbrella body, Ashwin Trikamjee says...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Motorists who utilise the Phoenix Highway are in for yet another traffic jam - thanks to the Go Durban project to be rolled out in the area next year. Ward forty-nine counsellor Donovan Tino Pillay - says the project is set to begin mid 2018 and is aimed at increasing the number of lanes on the highway so as to ease up the traffic flow. The Phoenix Highway came unde...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Critical issues relating to the current state of higher education will form the central of a two day conference, which gets underway at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) this morning. It will bring together academics and researchers from across the globe, as well as experts from industry such as Statistician General Pali Lehohla. Conference Convener and Chairpe...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has announced that it will be rolling out Shot Spotter technology in gang-ridden areas of the metro. In it's first three months, the establishment of Shot Spotter at Manenberg in Cape Town, saw the total number of incidents drop from 211 to 31. ShotSpotter does exactly what it says. The technology uses sound to pinpoint where a gu...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Concern continues to mount over the plight of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. This as the United Nations drastically increased the estimated number of refugees fleeing the violence to four-hundred-and-eighty-thousand. Bangladesh has eased restrictions on aid groups working in refugee camps and has appealed to the international community for more funding in order to...

SABC News and Current Affairs — A third suspect has handed himself over to police for the murder of retired Southlands Secondary School principal, Gona Pillay and will appear in court alongside two other suspects in the Chatsworth regional court shortly. Pillay and her husband, Loga, were stabbed multiple times in their home in Silverglen, Chatsworth, south of Durban last week. Loga remains in cri...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Taliesha Naidoo - Nearly 150 million girls and 73 million boys under the age of 18 face some level of abuse in India. That's according to a new study conducted by the Indian Ministry of Women and Child Development. Prayas - a non-governmental organisation which is based in New Delhi is at the forefront of promoting empowerment and livelihood f...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Hoosen Ebrahim - Motorists will have to dig much deeper in their pockets as we brace ourselves for yet another fuel price increase next week. The Automobile Association (AA) predicts an October hike of up to 35 cents a litre for petrol, 33 cents for diesel and 29 cents for illuminating paraffin. Automobile Association spokesman Layton Beard at...

SABC News and Current Affairs — The Hindu festival of lights or Diwali will fall on the 19th Octcober - the day of the north Indian observance. Local religious organisation - The South African Tamil Federation says this will be an official public holiday. After consultation with the various Hindhu religious organisations and the Department of Education in 2008 - it was decided that the public holi...

SABC News and Current Affairs — Three men charged with murder, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances have made their first appearance in the Chatsworth Magistrate's Court south of Durban. They are accused of stabbing to death former Southland Secondary school Principal, 63-year-old Gona Pillay - at her Silverglen home last week. Her 67-year-old husband - Logie - is in a criti...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the suicide of a police man who allegedly turned the gun on himself after shooting his wife on Sunday at Tongaat, north of Durban. SAPS pokesperson, Captain Nqobile Gwala says police are investigating a case of attempted murder and have opened an inquest docket.

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Taresh Harreparshad - Newly appointed Indian High Commissioner to South Africa Ruchira Kamboj says that Indians born in the country have successfully overcome the challenge of balancing their Indian heritage alongside their South African identity. Kamboj says that South Africans of Indian-origin have effectively contributed to the growth of th...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - The community of Laudium - southwest of Pretoria - has been left reeling with shock after a thirty-one year old man was shot in the head while attempting to stop a house robbery on Friday last week. According to Head of Crimeline South Africa - Yusuf Abramjee - a group of robbers attacked a family while they were having a...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Hundreds of mourners filled a local hall at Silverglen in Chatsworth, south of Durban to pay their final respects to a well-known former school principal - who was allegedly brutally murdered at the hands of her estate agent and his accomplices last Wednesday evening. Tributes poured in for 63-year-old Gona Pillay, a former princ...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - Two suspects who have been arrested in the alleged murder of retired Southlands school principal, Gona Pillay will be appearing at the Chatsworth Magistrate Court, south of Durban, later today. Chairperson of the Bayview Community Policing Forum, Brandon Pillay, says concerned community members are planning a peaceful protest out...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - Fashionistas are in for a treat next week as 20 of the best clothing ranges designed by Durban University of Technology students will hit the runway in their annual fashion show. From the 4th to the 6th October, 36 thirty-six third year students will showcase their designs under the theme False Gods. One of the students, T...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Prabashini Moodley - The Chatsworth Vernacular Institute remains deeply concerned about the number of Indian language schools that have closed their doors in Durban over the years. The Institute will this weekend host their annual reunion for residents and descendents of Chatsworth - south of Durban - under the theme: Preservation and Propagat...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - A group of Pillay's former learners have decided to pay tribute to her legacy with a Memorial Garden. At Pillay's funeral held on Sunday at Chatsworth, north of Durban, a tribute was read out by the programme director, Vis Murugan, on behalf of the matric class of 1992. While planning their 25th reunion, the ex-learners decided t...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak Producer, Rachel Vadi - In what is being called the "highway of death", four more young men have died in car crash, along the R102 in Phoenix, north of Durban. It is believed that two of the deceased were brothers and that shortly after hearing about their death - their father had to be rushed to hospital, with a suspected heart attack. Police spokesper...

SABC News and Current Affairs — by Newsbreak's Senior Producer, Genevieve Lanka - Durban-born classical dancer and singer, Kumari Ambigay has become a household name in the entertainment industry. The 71-year-old artist has graced many stages from South Africa to India, and has even performed for the late Nelson Mandela shortly after his release from prison. Aside from building her own brand as a...