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The family of a 14 year old boy who is still in hospital following a horrific train crash on Thursday says they are happy that all family members who were on the train are alive. Six members of the same family boarded the train from Theunissen town in the Free State. The Shosholoza Meyl train was travelling from Port Elizabeth to Gauteng when it collided with a truck at a level crossing between He...

With just over a week before the start of the new school year on the 17th, 31-thousand Grade One and Eight applicants are yet to be placed in Gauteng schools. They include 14-thousand late applicants from a group of 22-thousand. The other 17-thousand applied on time, but have not accepted placement offers at their second or third choices because their first choice schools were full. Gauteng Educat...

The ANC has turned 106 years old today and its president Cyril Ramaphosa together with other five officials will pay tribute to four former party presidents in KwaZulu-Natal later this morning. They include Josiah Gumede, Pixley Seme, Albert Luthuli and the party's founding president Langalibalele Dube. Last week the party's national chairperson Gwede Mantashe visited the grave of the longest serv...

Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments' Nadir Thokan looks at how the markets looking in the first few days of the new year, where to for Steinhoff now, what could happen to the JSE if foreign flows reverse and highlights from US jobs numbers that came out on Friday.

Ashburton Investments Portfolio Manager, Wayne Mccurrie looks at South African banks and whether the rally continue given the surge since ANC election, latest steinhoff disclosures about liquidity and time period of accounting fraud and are Global economic conditions still supportive of commodity shares.

Nontombi Gwam, the mother of a three year-old girl, Latoya, who died allegedly at Pastor Mboro's church last week is calling on the city of Ekurhuleni and government for assistance with travel costs to the Eastern Cape where the little girl is going to be laid to rest. The mother says she feel like she has been failed by both the police and the health department. She maintains that if there was no...

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will announce the 2017 matric results in Auckland Park, Johannesburg on Thursday evening. The previous year's overall pass rate stood at 72-point-five percent. That was a one-point-eight percent improvement from 2015's 70-point-seven percent. In recent years, matric exams have been marred by incidents of paper leaks and group copying, however the 2017 exams...

National Poet Laureate and struggle icon, Professor Keorapetse Kgosietsile has died at the age 79. Professor Kgosietsile had been admitted to hospital shortly before the New Year and passed away around midday on Wednesday for complications related to blood circulation. Benjamin Moshatama spoke his fellow writer and close friend, Mandla Langa...

The Bushbuckridge Municipality says they have consolidated affected households following appeals for help from thousands of people whose properties were destroyed by hailstorms that hit parts of Mpumalanga on New Year's eve. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to Spokesperson for the Municipality, Aubrey Mnisi...

The United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF, approximates that 48,000 babies will be born in the Eastern and Southern Africa region today, on New Year's Day, but estimates that close to 3000 children around the world will die within the first 24 hours. UNICEF says it's New Year resolution is to help give every child more than an hour, more than a day, more than a month - of survival.. For more Be...

Today will be one of the busiest days on the KZN coastline. Tens of thousands of people will this afternoon descend on the beaches around Durban as they celebrate the New Year. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to eThekwini Municipality's Festive Season Committee chair, MALCOLM CANHAM

Hundreds of families in Gauteng have been affected after a storm ripped through parts of the province at the weekend. Two people died and dozens of homes and shacks were damaged - mainly in Johannesburg and on the West Rand. Part of Leratong Hospital on the West Rand was also damaged. The Gauteng government has erected tents in the worst-affected areas. Meanwhile relief organisation Gift of the Gi...

Police in Johannesburg were on high alert last night in various hotspots around the city as revellers were out and about celebrating the New Year. Every new year's eve places like Hilbrow and Berea become hotspots for disorderly behaviour while several townships are hotbeds for the abuse and misuse of fireworks. For an update Benjamin Moshatama spoke to JMPD spokesperson Edna Mamonyane

The Eskom enquiry, conducted by the oversight committee on Public Enterprises, has heard some shocking details, with certain witnesses implicating very high profile people, including President Jacob Zuma, and some of the members of the executive. The enquiry is part of a larger state capture probe by parliament. Lulama Matya looks back at some of the testimonies...

Shocking details of badly decomposed bodies and corpses with missing body parts were revealed at the Life Esidimeni arbitration hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg. The often emotionally-charged hearings which started in October also heard how unlicensed and ill-equipped NGOs, with no experience in caring for psychiatric patients were forced to take more patients than they could care for. And how p...

The Constitutional Court is expected to deliver a ruling on whether Parliament should initiate impeachment proceedings against President Jacob Zuma over upgrades to his private home in Nkandla that were found to be unconstitutional. In September, the court reserved judgment in the case that the EFF and other parties had brought. This followed the 2016 Constitutional Court ruling that Zuma failed t...

Celebrations are continuing on the streets of the Liberian capital, Monrovia. They come after officials declared George Weah the winner of a presidential election. With almost all ballots counted, the former football start took a 61 per cent share of the vote, compared with 38 per cent for his rival, vice president Joseph Boakai. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to West Africa political commentator, Adama...

Just halfway through the festive season and there is a RED ALERT from traffic officials in Gauteng. The province's road fatalities have already exceeded last year's figure for the same period. 59 pedestrians among the dead. Law enforcement officers that had been deployed to other provinces are being recalled. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to Gauteng MEC for Community Safety Sizakele Nkosi-Malobane.

President Jacob Zuma has emphasised the importance of caring for and protecting elderly people. He was speaking at the annual Christmas party organised by the Jacob G. Zuma Foundation at Nkandla in the northern KwaZulu-Natal. Senior citizens - some as old as 107 - received their Christmas presents from the President. Vusi Makhosini reports…

Churches are not supposed to be hospitals; they are supposed to be places of worship. These are the words of the chairperson for the Commission for the Promotion of the Human Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva. This is in response to an incident where a toddler died after he was brought to Pastor Prophet Paseka Motsoeneng, who is commonly known as Past...

It seems driver behaviour in places like the Western Cape and Limpopo has improved this festive season. The numbers of accidents and fatalities on the road has slightly gone down as compared to last year this time. Benjamin Momshatama spoke to Kenny Africa, who is a Provincial Traffic Chief for the Western Cape Department of Transport and Public Works.

It is that time of the year where most people feel that they have to reward themselves financially for the hard work they have put in the year. To some, that financial reward might mean getting into debt, while others have saved up for it. Which one are you? Benjamin Moshatama spoke to Lesiba Mashapa, the Company Secretary of the National Credit Regulator (NCR)

X-mas is a special day to some. It is a day to spend with family and friends and celebrate the year. To others this is a lonely, stressful day that perhaps brings bad memories. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG)'s Dessy Tzoneva on tips for coping with Christmas blues.

Festivities comes with parties, food and free alcohol everywhere. This is when some who are struggling with to control their eating habits end up binging. Clinical Psychologist and Specialist in Addictions and Eating Disorders, Peter Powis spoke to Benjamin Moshatama about eating and drinking behaviour during these holidays.

Western Cape Traffic authorities have warned undisciplined motorists that they will face the might of the law. More than 100 people have died on the province's roads since the beginning of December. Carmel Loggenberg Roberts reports...