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The Khoi and the San people will soon have a bible in their own language known as Xun in less than a decade to come. With the help of the Bible Society South Africa, a group of the Khoi and San from across the continent are currently translating the holy book. The translations are currently taking place at Platfontein near Kimberley in the Northern Cape. Neria Hlakotsa filed this report ....

Today, marks two years since the Lily mine disaster struck, leaving three mine workers trapped underground at Louville in Mpumalanga. Trade union, the Association for Mineworkers and Construction Union- AMCU- will hold a commemorative event at Lily mine in remembrance of that tragic day. Eric Lubisi has more...

Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini has warned that his people will vigorously defend their land against those who think they can easily expropriate it. His Majesty addressed the Democratic Alliance delegation led by party leader Mmusi Maimane at Osuthu palace in KwaNongoma north of KwaZulu-Natal. This was the maiden visit by the DA to his Majesty. Nonkululeko Hlophe reports...

Gauteng residents are being warned NOT to send bottled water to drought stricken CapeTown. The Water and Sanitation Department says the charitable act will put Gauteng's own water supply at risk. Various Gauteng communities have been donating water bottles and tanks that will be sent to Cape Town which faces running out of water entirely by 16th April. Meanwhile organisations helping Gauteng resid...

The first part of the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings have come to an end. Next week legal arguments and the deliberations by the arbitrator will take place. 144 mental patients died when Gauteng Health Department decided to terminate the contract they had with Life Esidimeni and move patients to illegal NGO's. Has this arbitration process given any meaning to the families of the deceased? We...

All Sibanye gold mineworkers who were trapped underground for more than a day following a power cut at the Sibanye Beatrix mine near Theunissen in the Free State have been rescued. The last group of almost a thousand miners were brought to surface just after 6 this morning. Earlier, angry family members of the trapped miners demanded answers. They claim the mine management has done little to infor...

Ashburton Investments Portfolio Manager, Wayne Mccurrie looks at Absa manufacturing index up to 49 points from 44 in January. Glencore Production report, and SONA, Who will deliver and will it matter?

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the deaths of 144 mentally ill patients in the Life Esidimeni tragedy as one of the the most painful events in post-apartheid South Africa. Motsoaledi was overcome by emotions as he apologised to the affected families at the end of his testimony at the arbitration hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg yesterday. Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Health M...

Multichoice has announced that it will not be renewing its contract with news channel ANN7 when it expires in August this year. The announcement follows ICASA's confirmation that it is conducting an investigation into alleged payments made by Multichoice to the SABC and ANN7. The pay-TV provider faced criticism for questionable payments to the tune of 141-million rand annually to ANN7. Naledi Ngco...

Eskom head of generation Matshela Koko says he's determined to clear his name. He's taken to Twitter, to confirm his suspension after receiving a letter with fresh charges last night. Last Friday Koko won a Labour Court application preventing Eskom from firing him. Since the new board took over about two weeks ago, several Eskom executives have resigned or are being suspended. Yesterday, Chief Inf...

Communication Workers' Union (CWU), general-secretary Aubrey Tshabalala says pay TV giant MultiChoice's decision to dump ANN7 has a negative impact on staff of the 24-hour television news channel. MultiChoice announced yesterday that it would not renew ANN7's contract when it expired in August. The CWU, which represents more than half the employees at the channel formerly owned by the controversia...

President Jacob Zuma's lawyers have confirmed that their client has met the National Prosecuting Authority's deadline and submitted representations on why he should not be prosecuted for fraud and corruption. They say the representations were made late last night. The representations were initially supposed to be submitted in November 2017, but National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abraha...

ETM Analytics Chief Economist, George Glynos looks at a R15.7bn surplus for Dec and record R80.6bn surplus for the year, the Fed left rates unchanged, NAAMSA vehicle sales and the Barclays Manufacturing PMI and Venezuela appears to be in the midst of another unfolding crisis, SA should pay attention to a good example of how NOT to manage an economy?

- Pres Jacob Zuma submitting representations on why he should not be prosecuted for fraud and corruption. - Multichoice announces they will remove the ANN7 TV channel from the DStv bouquet. -Marvel superhero movie #BlackPanther, which has been dubbed as one of the most anticipated movies of 2018, Premiers in Los Angeles.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the deaths of 144 mentally ill patients in the Life Esidimeni tragedy as one of the the most painful events in postapartheid South Africa. Motsoaledi was overcome by emotions as he apologised to the affected families at the end of his testimony at the arbitration hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg yesterday. Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Health ME...

Portfolio Manager at Ashburton Investments, Wayne Mccurrie looks at Asian Markets with massive cash flows and massive profit growth at Merafe resources and perfect storm and a tale of two halves for Spur....

Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance says it expects the various South African regulatory bodies to co-operate with other regulators in Germany and the Netherlands who are currently investigating Steinhoff. The German authorities are currently investigating Steinhoff for alleged accounting irregularities. The JSE, Reserve Bank and Financial Services Board are among the South African regulato...

Former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana has revealed damming evidence against various prominent people with business and political influence. Among those implicated are one of the Gupta brothers, President Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane, former Treasurer General Zweli Mkhize, Former Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and various prominent business people who allegedly had links with the Guptas. He also told the co...

Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie has accused Viceroy Research Group of beng driven by profit motives in what the bank calls a one-sided and factually incorrect report. Viceroy released a report yesterday labelling Capitec a loan shark that must be placed under curatorship. Fourie has questioned the motive and timing of the Viceroy report. Capitec Bank has about nine milion active clients. Thandiswa Mawu...

The Gauteng government says it's not true that the provincial Health Department was pressured by the provincial and national treasury to cut costs. Former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu and former HOD Barney Selebano told the arbitration hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg that the decision to terminate the long-standing contract with Life Esidimeni was necessitated by budgetary constraints. However, d...

Chief Economist at ETM Analytics, George Glynos looks at South African markets as blame games and crisis talk about Cape Town and Eskom continue and intra-day data in the form of money supply and the latest government finance figures

Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Gauteng Finance MEC Barbara Creecy are expected to take a stand at the Life Esidimeni inquiry. A few days ago, former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu allegedly implicated the Premier in being part of the decision to terminate the Life Esidimeni contract and move patients to NGO's. It was later found that those NGO's were illegal and that 144 patients died under...

A construction worker was buried alive inside a trench he was digging when soil caved-in on top of him at a shopping mall under construction in Giyani, Limpopo on Monday afternoon. Two others suffered suspected multiple fractures and have been taken to Nkhensani hospital in Giyani. The workers were preparing a trench where sewerage pipes will be laid when the incident happened. The construction wa...

Officials from the Hawks have refuted media reports over the imminent arrest of the Gupta brothers and their associates. The crime busting unit is investigating at least seven cases which are now at an advanced stage. Some of these reported high profile cases include Atul Gupta's alleged offer of ministerial positions to former deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas and former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor....

Water and Sanitation minister, Nomvula Mokonyane has applauded some of the farmers who have offered to avail water from their properties to help with the water crisis in Cape Town. Mokonyane spoke in Newlands where she was addressing the Cape Town Press Club. This comes as Day Zero is looming. SABC senior journalist, Mercedes Besent...