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In this podcast, Bussai talks to Mr Jiyane from the Department of Education. We find out about a program devised by the department - Assessment of Special Needs for students/ pupils living with disability in order to create a conducive schooling environment.

The SRC at DUT is calling on management to attend to students' issues, including financial aid, accommodation and transport. Classes at UKZN, Mangosuthu University of Technology and the University of Zululand were also disrupted. Meanwhile, in Gauteng, the Wits University's students' representative council has condemned management for its use of private security. They say private security official...

Structural engineers are expected to brief the Department of Education on their assessment following the collapse of a walkway at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark. A large cement walkway at the school caved in on Friday, killing three teenagers instantly and leaving more than 20 injured. Another pupil died in hospital on Saturday. The Department's Spokesperson Steve Mabona spoke to Leeanne Man...

The 10AM deadline has come and passed for Vodacom to respond to the #PleaseCallMe Movement's demands - for the telecommunications giant to resolve the stalemate with Nkosana Makate. Vodacom has been embroiled in a protracted legal battle with Makate, who was an employee of the firm when he thought of the 'Please call Me' idea. Meanwhile, the South African Police Service has blocked protestors from...

Former BOSASA employee, Richard Le Roux continues to spill the beans at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Parktown, Johannesburg. ANC Chairperson and Mineral Resources Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has for the first time been implicated in the BOSASA scandal which is unfolding before the commission. He has been named in the 'Special Projects' box - along with ANC MP Vincent Smith and for...

@GlenLewisSA chats to @karidas_ about the Khula App which helps small-scale farmers to connect with supermarkets. #TechTuesday #TheGlenzitoSuperDrive

In this debut episode of 2019, the focus is on back to school. Bussai catches up with Sbusiso Mdaka who was once a student at the University of Free State. We get to find out how this inspirational figure never let his blindness to stop him from going to school.

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#BeDriven Tumelo Ramaphosa aims to climb the ranks of Blockchain with his company StudEx Wildlife. #TheGlenzitoSuperDrive 3-6pm weekdays @GlenLewisSA

Trade union AMCU says its workers remain resolute even though mining company Sibanye Stillwater is refusing to accede to their demand of a wage increase. Workers in the gold sector have been on a two month strike following a deadlock between the parties. Members of AMCU working in the platinum belt have been given the go-ahead to embark on a sympathy strike which starts next week Tuesday. Their nu...

Social media and phone lines have been closed down in Zimbabwe as the national shutdown enters its second day. Three people have so far reportedly died after police allegedly used live ammunition while scores more have been injured. 200 others have been arrested. The protest has been sparked by a sharp rise in the price of petrol which in rand terms amount to R43/liter. Zimbabweans took to the str...

Thousands of black homeownwers have allegedly been overcharged by First National Bank (FNB). This is according to a Financial Investigator Emerald Van Zyl. Van Zyl insists that the home loan accounts were inherited by FNB when it took over the bond book of failed finance provider Saambou in 2002. He says he's been fighting these overcharges since he discovered his own bond had been miscalculated a...

Protests have erupted in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, following the staggering increases in the price of fuel this weekend. President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the increases are aimed at addressing a shortfall caused by increased gasoline demands and rampant illegal trade. In Rand terms, it costs over 43-rand to buy a litre of petrol. These Zimbabweans have expressed outrage, and are calling for...

Twenty-three members of two rival groups of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church arrested for various charges including public violence and assault will appear in the Mokerong Magistrate's Court in Limpopo today. They were arrested in Danisani village in Mapela at the weekend after a fight broke out between the two rival groups during a church service. Police officers confiscated more tha...

Four men are expected to appear in the Tembisa Magistrates Court in Ekurhuleni today, for their alleged involvement in a jobs scam. They allegedly posed as metro police officials and sold jobs to over one hundred people for fifteen thousand rand each. The suspects were arrested in Tembisa on Friday during a sting by the Joburg Metro Police Department. The students who paid to get jobs are from dif...

Several learners from the Stilfontein Hoërskool outside Klersdorp in the North west stayed at home today after Friday's protests at the school over alleged racism against black learners. Some black learners accuse management of only progressing white learners to the next grades despite both groups performing relatively poor last year. However, for those that reported for school, learning is contin...

The battle between Nkosana Makate who has sued network provider Vodacom over his "please call me" idea continues. Makate has denied the company's claim this past weekend, that the two parties have reached an agreement on the settlement amount, saying they are only waiting for his banking details. Makate says he has not agreed to what he says is a shocking and insulting offer. Vodacom claims that t...

The ANC top leadership is wrapping up its interaction with various communities in KwaZulu-Natal ahead of the party's election manifesto launch in Durban tomorrow. Meanwhile, The ANC Moses Mabhida Region has taken the mother body to court. They are demanding the disbandment of the Regional Task Team. It was formed after the dissolution of the Regional Executive Committee in 2018.

The Enlightened Christian Gathering church of Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has just briefed the media about the unfortunate incident that claimed three lives during a stampede in December. The church also highlighted internal investigations and mechanisms put in place to avoid a repeat of a similar incident in the future. This here is the update from the church's spokesperson Manyard manyowa.....

The Women in Ministry Consultation of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa says it can no longer be business as usual in the church with men continuing to practice patriarchy. The women have addressed the media in Bruma in the East rand. They marched to the Methodist Connexional Office this morning saying women are still treated as lesser beings by men in the church and that this is reflected i...

A learner has committed suicide due to alleged bullying by a teacher at Vorentoe high school . Nicole Mnguni took her life Tuesday after returning from school to fetch her report which the school refused to give her. Mnguni is said to have been a victim of harassment and bullying by her Mathematics teacher the school is aware of the case but had not taken any action to address. It has also emerged...

Parents of learners at the Schweizer Reneke Laer Skool in the North West have fetched their children from the school in panic following allegations of racism against it. Education MEC Sello Lehare visited the school to investigate the allegations. Aaron Motswana, the mayor of the Mamusa Local Municipality in which the school is situated says people must not rush to conclusion after seeing the phot...

The leader of the Engagement for Citizenship and Development party Martin Fayulu, has questioned the legitimacy of the results of the November 30 elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Election authorities in that country announced Felix Tshisekedi, who is a veteran politician and has been Joseph Kabila's rival for years, as the provisional winner. The Constitutional Court is yet to endors...

The Independent Electoral Commission says it has obtained residential addresses of over 21-million voters. CEO Sy Mamabolo says 83 per cent of the names on the voters' roll have full address details. The issue has been before the Constitutional Court which recently extended the deadline to update the address details of voters. Mamabolo says they have until November to collect this information and...

There has been several interesting developments in both Africa and the world, from the DRC elections, to the attempted coup in Gabon and developments in America and the UN. The SABC's UN Correspondent Sherwin Bryce-Pease and SABC Foreign Desk Editor Sophie Mokoena tell us more