Radio 2000 Mixes

President Jacob Zuma says radical transformation is government policy and one way of enhancing it is by paying small businesses which do business with government, on time. President Zuma was delivering his annual address to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent reports

The official death toll of mentally ill patients could go up today when Health Ombudsman, Malegapuru Makgoba makes a second appearance to present his updated report at the Life Esidimeni Arbitration in Parktown, Johannesburg. Makgoba, who was the first witness to testify when the hearings got underway last month, had put the figure at 118, up from the 94 he had announced in February when he releas...

EFT Strategist Nerina Visser looks at the 5th South Africa Tomorrow Investor Conference is taking place in New York this week. Manufacturing output stats for September and demand for so-called “green” investments, or environmentally-friendly investments.

In this episode Bobo Da Beat talks to the General Secretory of DPSA Mpumalanga Mr Kenneth Sithole – about the career opportunities available for disable people

#JacquePauw - book launch cancelled after power outage. #280characters - Twitter expands character count. #MduduziManana - Former @HigherEduGovZA deputy Minister has two previous convictions of theft.

Award-winning investigative journalist Jacques Pauw says he is not deterred by continuous death threats on his life. Pauw was speaking at the official launch of his book "The President's Keepers last night at the Hyde Park Shopping Centre in Johannesburg. "The President Keepers" makes allegation about the abuse of money by the Revenue service, security agencies, and accuses President Jacob Zuma of...

Suspended head of Legal Services and Governance at Eskom, Suzanne Daniels has said that she met the Gupta family through their associate, Salim Essa. Meanwhile, another former executive at the power utility, believes that she was punished for refusing to sign the New Age and Regiments deals. Lulama Matya reports....

Gauteng ANC chairperson Paul Mashatile has denied treating Emfuleni mayor Simon Mofokeng with kid gloves in the light of allegations of sexual grooming of a 14-year-old girl. Mofokeng has been placed on special leave by the ANC in Gauteng following the allegations against him. The DA claims Mashatile is shielding Mofokeng - who's also the ANC chairperson in the Sedibeng region because of the power...

Former Higher Education deputy minister, Mduduzi Manana, who has pleaded guilty to assaulting three women at a Johannesburg night club in August, has offered to compensate the women, do community service and pay a 100-thousand rand fine. His lawyer, Michael Motsoeneng Bill, has also asked that Manana be sentenced to 12 months imprisonment wholly suspended for 5 years, on condition he does not comm...

ETF Strategist, Nerina Visser on the latest SACCI Business Confidence Index, the International Monetary Fund and the long running saga of payments of social grants.

The importance of big businesses investing in ECD development - Innovation Edge

Market Analyst, Maudi Lentsoane of Lehumo Investments looks at Asian Markets as they are trading mixed following a mixed close on Wall Street, Donald Trump warns North Korea about making a "fatal miscalculation' and while the recent increase in the Oil price is negative for INFLATION, it is definitely offering a support for SASOL Shares, including the SASOL Inzalo BEE scheme

Taxi commuters have been advised to seek alternative transport on Wednesday morning due to a taxi strike. Taxi operators affiliated to the National Taxi Alliance will gather in Marabastad in Pretoria before marching to the Transport Ministry and the Union Buildings. The organisation is accusing the transport ministry of failure to address their long-standing concerns. They include the controversia...

A top South African National Defence Force general is among suspects that have been arrested for alleged fraud and corruption. The arrest follows a sting operation which was conducted by the Military Police and Defence Intelligence Divisions of the SANDF. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Head of Communication for the Defence Force, Siphiwe Dlamini...

The Life Esidimeni Arbitration hearings into the deaths of 141 mentally-ill patients will resume in Parktown, Johannesburg this Wednesday morning. Lawyers involved in the arbitration have not succeeded in bringing three key witnesses, including Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu, to testify within the scheduled three weeks of the hearings. The sitting has since been extended. After resorting to su...

Tensions were running high between the EFF and the DA in the National Assembly during an EFF Motion calling for the Nationalisation of Banks without Compensation. The debate was led by EFF Leader Julius Malema. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more....

Firefighters have spent the night battling a mountain fire in Gordon's Bay outside Cape Town. At least five houses have been burnt down but no lives have been affected. An extensive vegetation fire has been raging against the slopes of the Hottentots Holland mountains between Grabouw and Gordon's Bay. Mlamli Maneli reports..

The state has wrapped up its cross-examination of Henri van Breda in the Cape Town High Court. The 23-year old Van Breda faced a grilling from the state and Judge Siraj Desai during his four days of cross-examination. He is accused of the murder of his parents and brother at their De Zalze Estate home two years ago. His sister was severely injured. Van Breda maintains that a masked axe-wielding in...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has fired his First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Information Minister SImon Khaya Moyo read a statement at a media briefing saying Mngangagwa has been disloyal, deceitful, disrespectful and unreliable. This ends weeks of speculation following a month-long fallout. Nthakoana Ngatane reports:

Investigators in the United States are scouring the background of the deceased gunman who opened fire inside a church in Texas killing 26 people and injuring 20 more. Police have since confirmed that the gunman - identified as a former member of the Air Force - as having died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the vehicle he used to escape the scene of the attack. The gunman was reported t...

The ANC-SACP bilateral ended at the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday night with an agreement to have another meeting later this month. The meeting was called to discuss unity and the functioning of the alliance with the SACP now decided to independently contest 21 wards at the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the Free State This follows the Communist Party's call for President Jacob Zum...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) is denying allegations that collusion with SABC management could be the reason behind their decision to call off last week's workers strike. The claim came out during the interview we had with the President of BEMAWU, Hannes Du Buison, yesterday when I asked him the actual reasons for his union to call the strike off after 2 days. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to CWU pres...

Market analyst, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asian Markets as the Major indexes are trading higher, the Nikkei 225 and Hang Seng Index leading gains, the YPO Global Pulse Confidence Index for Asia climbed 1.3 points to 62.8.and the JSE also touched a new record yesterday, traded above 60000 before closing marginally below that level.

Market Analyst, Nerina Visser looks at SA markets as oil market in the short term are up another 3+% yesterday, now sitting solidly above $64 a barre, the move by Firstrand announced yesterday ,to acquire the British bank Aldermore and the JSE again recorded an all-time high yesterday...

Botswana government has officially lodged a complain with South Africa's Ministry of International Relations after Premier Mahumapelo's convoy allegedly pushed Botswana's President Ian Khama vehicles off the road, in Botswana this past week. South Africa's diplomatic and bilateral relations with Botswana have been good over the years. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Mahumapelo's spokesperson Brian Setswa...