Radio 2000 Mixes

Queues are getting longer at VBS Mutual Bank in Thohoyandou in Limpopo as clients withdraw their money and close their accounts. The mutual bank was placed under curatorship by the SA Reserve Bank in March following reports that it was facing a liquidity crisis. This after Treasury instructed municipalities to stop investing with the bank. A number of councils withdrew more than R1 billion from th...

The ANC's National Executive Committee is meeting today at the St Georges Hotel in Irene outside Pretoria to discuss burning issues plaguing the ruling party. Top of the agenda will be issues around North West, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Free State and Gauteng's upcoming elective conference. Meanwhile, the Johannesburg High Court is expected to hear a case by four ANC members from Eastern Cape who want to co...

A KwaZulu-Natal minority rights group is considering opening a case against EFF leader Julius Malema for his statement that Indians are racist. Malema was speaking during his party's Youth Day commemoration event in Klerksdorp in the North West Province this past weekend. Chairperson of the South African Minority Rights Equality Movement (samrem), Daleep Lutchman, says they will be meeting soon to...

Police are combing the scene of a cash-in-transit-heist on Jakes Gerwel Drive near Philippi on the Cape Flats. Two G4S cash vans have been targeted in the latest heist on the corner of Weltreveden and Turfhall Roads in Cape Town. The road has been closed where a large police presence is visible. More than 150 cash-in-transit heists have taken place this year. National Police Commissioner Kehla Sit...

Power utility Eskom says wage talks with trade unions will resume tomorrow. The company had told unions that it could not afford to increase the income of workers at all because it is cash strapped. But now it has changed its tune after a meeting with trade unions Numsa, NUM and Solidarity, which Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan facilitated on Friday. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Eskom's Khu...

Nthabelang Likotsi, Founder and Executive Chairperson of the Young Women in Business Network Holdings.

Xolani Luvuno captured the hearts and minds of many by completing this year's Comrades Marathon on one leg with the use of crutches

Author @JackiePhamotse gives @GlenLewisSA her take on the blesser/blessee life. #TheGlenzitoSuperDrive 3-6pm

#TheGlenzitoSuperDrive with @GlenlewisSA hang out with @PapaPennyAhee #YouthEndala

Although Bafana Bafana did not qualify for this world tournament; a few South Africans are there anyway having the time of their life. The 2018 World Cup kicked off yesterday with Russia launching the World Cup by thrashing Saudi Arabia 5-0 in the tournament's opening match. This has been called the best world cup opening game. Fhatuwani Mpfuni from Johannesburg is currently in Russia with friends...

Tempers have flared during the cross examination of former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng at the CCMA where he is challenging his dismissal. Motsoeneng told the SABC's legal representative Anton Myburg SC, that he does not like his attitude towards him. The hearing had to be adjourned briefly to allow the parties to calm down. Earlier Motsoeneng questioned the reasons for his dismissal, saying he thin...

Police have been combing a crime scene for clues following the killing of two people at a mosque in Malmesbury, Cape Town, during the early hours of this morning. Police were called out to a local mosque and found two people stabbed to death and several injured. The suspect, armed with a knife, was still on the scene. He charged at the police who tried to persuade him to hand himself over. They th...

Disgruntled workers belonging to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) are today picketing at Eskom's Sunninghill head offices in Johannesburg. Wage negotiations between the financially distressed power utility and labour unions deadlocked resulting in the rolling out of mass action by the NUM and Numsa. Eskom's spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe tweeted th...

The suspended SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane's lawyers are preparing for legal battle against President Cyril Ramaphosa. This after Ramaphosa failed to meet yet another deadline to submit an affidavit detailing disciplinary charges against Moyane. President Ramaphosa's lawyers undertook to submit his affidavit substantiating the allegations of misconduct against Moyane by June 8th but failed to meet...

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng says claims that local content programmes don't generate revenue are false. During his time as COO- Motsoeneng implemented the controversial 90% local content quota on all SABC platforms. He says the SABC is now in financial difficulties because he's no longer at the public broadcaster. Motsoeneng has been testifying at the CCMA in Johannesburg where he's challeng...

The South African Police Service has been briefing Parliament's Portfolio committee on Police, on plans to curb cash in transit heists. According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre, cash in transits heists have risen in the 1st quater of 2018 compared to last year. There has been a series of such robberies in recent weeks in some parts of the country.

It's now almost a year since a group of about 70 families who were evicted from an inhabitable building in Johannesburg, has been living in tents at Wembley Sports Stadium. The City of Johannesburg had reportedly promised them that they will be moved into new housing structures by Friday last week. The owners of the building filed for an eviction order on the basis that the residents were occupyin...

The man responsible for blowing the lid on the alleged reasons behind the assassination of Sindiso Magaqa, has lashed out at the KwaZulu-Natal Premier and the Moerane Commission of Inquiry. Thabiso Zulu says the KZN provincial government is playing with their lives. Zulu says he and others are still not getting the protection they were promised for testifying at the Moerane Commission.

Members of Parliament have told Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane that they feel she direspected them when she missed last week's meeting. Mkhwebane sent a letter of apology to Parliament a day before she was due to appear before the MPs, citing a family emergency. MPs tried to probe about the nature of the emergency and the details contained in the letter, however, chairperson of the Portfolio...

Over a million football fans are expected in Russia for the Fifa World Cup. The opening ceremony will be held in Moscow tomorrow at about half-past-four South African time. In preparation for all those visitors and the beautiful game, the Russians have been practising how to smile. That's because smiling doesn't come naturally to them. It's a cultural thing, reports the BBC's Moscow correspondent,...

In this episode Bussai talks about albinism.

A local Rate Payers' association in Koster has been granted permission to take control of the municipality's water and refuse systems "for as long as necessary". The landmark ruling puts control of key services in the hands of its citizens. Koster, together with the neighbouring towns of Derby and Swartruggens, is part of the Kgetlengrivier municipality in the North West, a province that is under...

The UDM leadership in the Eastern Cape has set up a team to investigate corruption and gate keeping in the party. This after the national leadership halted the regional elective conference of the OR Tambo this weekend. The leadership has established that some branch members were paid to vote for particular candidates and that party processes were not followed during branch meetings. Sakina Kamwend...

Former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng wants his job back as Group Corporate Affairs executive. This emerged at his CCMA hearing in Joburg where he is challenging the SABC's decision to remove him from his position as Chief Operations Officer. SABC board member Krish Naidoo has told the hearing that Motsoeneng has no place at the public broadcaster in either capacity because the COO position has been f...

US President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, have signed a joint agreement after their unprecedented talks in Singapore. While briefing the media, Trump said the process of full denuclearisation on the Korean Peninsula will begin 'very soon' but that the sanctions will remain.