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#Back2School Special: The focus is on education and some of the initiatives that can help young people excel in school and also prepare them for tertiary or life after Grade 12. Perhaps they can motivate you too to make a positive contribution in your community Established in 2014, Phakamani Young Minds Academy is a non-profit organisation providing academic assistance to learners throughout their...

#Back2School Special: How do we best approach this academic year? Life coach and speaker Thabo Magano is urging society to discard the idea that a matric fail or not getting the perfect marks is permanent failure. “We need to remove the permanency of the moment and do away with the idea that if you fail matric you did not achieve the entry level to life”   Affectionately known as Coach T, Magano w...

#Back2School Special: The focus is on education and some of the initiatives that can help young people excel in school and also prepare them for tertiary or life after Grade 12 We talk to movers and shakers within the education sector….PSconnect is an easy to use online system that connects high school learners to over 450 universities, TVET colleges as well as funding schemes around the country;...

Friends, former colleagues and family of the late businessman icon Richard Maponya gathered at the Rosebank Union Church in Rosebank for his memorial service. Maponya died on Monday morning at a hospital in Johannesburg after a short illness at the age of 99. He started his business empire in Soweto in the 1950's. Maponya's business interests included retail stores, car dealerships and property de...

Iranian General Qasem Soleimani was buried in his hometown of Kerman earlier today, just hours after Iran attacked two Iraqi military bases that house US troops in retaliation for the US airstrike that killed him. Soleimani was killed by a drone strike in Baghdad on Friday in a dramatic escalation of tensions between Washington and Tehran. We spoke to Na'eem Jeenah, Executive Director of the Afro-...

eNCA Statement: eNCA has parted company with its Director of News Kanthan Pillay with immediate effect. This follows outrage and condemnation after a tweet he posted. The tweet does not represent the views of e-Media Investments and the channel. After intense overnight investigation and consultation, the channel decided it had no alternative but to end its relationship with him. Although he was ac...

Eastern Cape Traditional Affairs MEC Xolile Nqatha has expressed shock at the CRL Rights Commission's declaration to shut down 15 initiation schools in four regions of the province. CRL Rights Commission Chairperson David Mosoma has called on communities to help put an end to non-compliant initiation schools. 24 initiates have already died in the current summer season. We speak to MEC Nqatha

Former Lily Mine workers near Barberton in Mpumalanga, who went underground to search for the bodies of the three workers who remain trapped, say it will take them at least about four months to retrieve their bodies. Pretty Nkambule, Solomon Nyarenda and Yvonne Mnisi were trapped underground when the mine collapsed three years ago. Families of the workers have been camping near the mine in an atte...

Eskom is implementing Stage 4 rotational load shedding which is expected to continue until 11pm tonight. This follows Eskom implementing Stage 6 load shedding last night after power supply to the incline conveyors feeding coal to the silos at Medupi power station failed. This resulted in a loss of a number of units while flooding at both Kriel mine and the power station located in Mpumalanga led t...

ANC veteran and former parliamentarian Ben Turok has passed away at the age of 92 this morning. His family has just confirmed the news. We speak to Turok's son, Professor Ivan Turok

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has dissolved Railway Agency Prasa's board. Announcing his decision Mbalula said he has put the institution under administration. He has announced Bongisizwe Mpondo as the administrator for 12 months. We speak to Commentator, Khaya Sithole

The Gauteng provincial government says they will be placing the City of Tshwane under administration. This was announced today by MEC for Human Settlements and CoGTA Lebogang Maile in Johannesburg earlier today. Maile says among the reasons for placing the City under administration is as a result of it's frequency of unauthorized and irregular expenditure as per the Auditor General's report as wel...

Eskom has JUST announced stage four load-shedding from two o clock, this afternoon. Earlier this morning it had announced that stage two load-shedding will continue today and tomorrow from nine-AM to six-PM but things have just suddenly gotten worse. In a statement, the power utility says this is due to a shortage of capacity and a highly constrained system. Power cuts began yesterday, but were su...

TV reporter, Gillian Pillay has been following a number of stories as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence- One story is of a horrific ordeal of a young Soweto minor who was violated multiple times by three different perpetrators. The second is two Nyaope men in their twenties. The first one had numerous accusations levelled against him relating to violating minor girls in...

The community of Olifantshoek village outside Giyani in Limpopo is still shocked after a 67 year old father was chopped to death allegedly by his 31 year old daughter and her 15 year old son. The suspects who has since been arrested allegedly killed him for his social grant money. Rudzani Tshivhase reports....

President Cyril Ramaphosa has instructed the government to urgently implement the process of putting the struggling South African Airways (SAA) under business rescue. The airline, suffered a crippling strike last month and was forced to cancel a number of flights and this pushed it to the brink of collapse. In a statement, the minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Grodhan says placing the airline...

Debates on the EFF's next leadership are raging within the party although all seems calm to the public eye. The party will hold its second National People's Assembly in Nasrec, Soweto from the 13th to the 16th of December to elect new leadership and discuss policy. Busi Chimombe spoke to the EFF's Commander In Chief Julius Malema in the run-up to the NPA....

Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo says negotiations are under way with other parties to form a new executive of the City. Makhubo was speaking during a media briefing in Johannesburg this morning where he outlined his vision for the City. He was elected Joburg mayor yesterday after winning by 137 votes. Makhubo beat the DA's Funzela Ngobeni who got 101 votes and the EFF's Musa Novela who scored 30...

This morning we hanging out with Khuli Roberts, she's just released her debut novel, Siren. Kuli revealed that the book is about a girl named Zinhle tries to find her way through highs and lows of the entertainment industry.

Cricket South Africa president Chris Nenzani has called a news conference for 6 o'clock this evening, in the wake of continued criticism of it's handling of the media. CSA revoked the accreditations of five journalists on Sunday, a move they admit was in response to those journalists writing stories critical of the administration. CSA has since re-instated the five affected writers, and CSA CEO Th...

Fritz Joubert's friend has described him assomebody who always wanted to be right and did not handle confrontations very well. Forty year-old Anele Hoyana succumbed to injuries inflicted allegedly by Joubert using a rifle in a video that went viral on social media. Joubert was later killed by a police officer during a scuffle following Hoyana's murder. Joubert's friend Zwelihle Mathe who was also...

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Last night (28 November) Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng hosted the 2019 UCT Annual Awards, an evening that sees the university community gathered together to celebrate the outstanding contributions of professional, administrative support and service (PASS) and academic staff. The event serves to acknowledge and honour no fewer than 127 long-serving staff and the recipients of the Dis...

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#FamilyInterview| [JHB STUDIO] Multi ward Winning author, actor, playwright and activist, the Living Legend  Dr John Kani – he is one of South Africa's most iconic living actors