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Nadir Thokan of 27FOUR Investments looks at understanding biases in passive investing, Chinese PMI numbers for September and the opportunity offered in global listed property.

Trending topics today: Lockdown returns for Season 2. The aftermath of the storm in Gauteng. Police Minister Fikile Mbalula in hot water over reports that sporting goods supplier, Sedgars Sports, paid for at least half of his 680-thousand rand family trip to Dubai over the last New Year.

The SABC 8 want parliament to look into what they call reckless abandon the SABC has descended to. The group has written a letter to the chairperson of the portfolio committee on communications, Humphrey Maxegwana. One of the concerns raised in their letter is lack of political will to remedy the governance crisis at the public broadcaster. The group has also accused the Presidency of delaying the...

Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula is the latest to be embroiled in allegations of corruption. According to media reports, the Minister allegedly took a trip to Dubai with his family, paid partly by a company that supplies uniforms to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc). At the time of the trip, the Mbalula was the Minister of Sports. We tried to contact the Minist...

The official figure of the mentally-ill patients who died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy now stands at 118. Health Ombudsman Prof Malegapuru Makgoba revealed this during his testimony in the Life Esidimeni Arbitration which got underway in Parktown, Johannesburg on Monday. When he released his report in February this year, Makgoba said 94 patients had died, and that he was still counting. He was th...

The Executive Director of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, Vasu Gounden, says South Africa is moving rapidly in the direction of civil war. He says failure to improve the lives of the majority of the country's people as well as the current political rhetoric threaten to plunge the country into the instability experienced by other countries, like Syria, South Sudan, S...

The Lady Frere woman who had charges of murder and attempted murder against her withdrawn by the local magistrate's court in the Eastern Cape, says she is delighted. The NPA announced on Monday that it had declined to prosecute. The women rescued her daughter from three rapists, fatally stabbing a man and wounding two others . There was jubilation inside and outside court when the decision to drop...

Tendai Khumalo - MD of Qunu Workforce Disabled South Africans forgotten in employment equity targets; The Seventeenth Commission of Employment Equity report released recently highlighted the lack of progress in the transformation of South Africa’s workplace, but there has been little mention of disability in the commentary that has followed. Tendai Khumalo, MD of Qunu Workforce, a Workforce Holdin...

14 September 2017 - The Chairman and founder of Southern African Disabled Musicians Association Mr. John Mothopeng - who is a blind musician himself. Heritage Month in Barberton, Mpumalanga will be celebrated in a different and a very exciting way. Musicians from different provinces will come to Barberton to showcase their talents, this, brought to the city by Southern African Disabled Musicians A...

Marthé Kotze - Programme Manager: Information & Awareness SA Federation for Mental Health In South Africa, the start of September 2017 brought the devastating news that an 8-year-old pupil in Mpumalanga had taken his own life while at school. Abroad, yet another public figure - Chester Bennington – committed suicide earlier this year, following what seems to have been a long struggle with mental i...

Ari Seirlis CEO - Quad Para Association of South Africa (QASA) The International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) declared 5 September as World Spinal Cord Injury day. This is the 2nd year that World SCI Day was celebrated worldwide. This year the theme is YES WE CAN and emphasises the fact that people with spinal cord injury after having received good quality rehabilitation, celeb the opportunity of p...

On today's trending topics: Personal care brand Dove has found itself in the midst of a social media storm after it released a series of images that showed a black woman turning white after using its soap. A video of a woman assaulted and handcuffed after her three-year-old daughter apparently relieved herself outside the Usave Shoprite in Cosmo City goes viral. The Annual DstvFestival and Bafana...

The EFF yesterday announced the expulsion of six councillors who voted with the ANC in Mogale City municipality. The party said the councillors contravened the EFF decision not to attend the Mogale City budget vote council meeting in which the ANC needed its budget to be passed. We speak to EFF National spokesperson, Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi..

Investment Analyst, Lungile Malinga looks at how are Asian Markets doing after Chinese markets were closed all of last week and what we should look out for in terms of data points this week.

27Four Investments' Nadir Thokan looks at US jobs numbers that came out on Friday, the contrasting foreign influence into our bond market vs equity market this year and outlook for listed property in a weak economic environment.

SACP General Secretary Dr Blade Nzimande has urged members of his party to stop lamenting but to act decisively against gender based violence. He was speaking at the SACP's Red October Campaign launch in Johannesburg on Sunday. The 2017 Red October Campaign focussed on the abuse of women and children and attack on members of the LGBTG community.

The process of arbitration between the families of the victims of Life Esidimeni together with government is starting today. This follows recommendations by the Health Ombud that an alternative dispute resolution process must be implemented as part of helping families of the Esidimeni victims to find closure. More than 100 Life Esidimeni mental patients died after they were transfered to unlicence...

KwaZulu-Natal ANC Chairperson, Sihle Zikalala, has criticised party members who discredit presidential hopefuls who are not their preferred candidates. Zikalala was addressing the ANCYL's 73rd anniversary celebrations in uMlazi, south of Durban. He also called on those leaders jockeying for the ANC's top position to come and assure party members that they will remain in the organisation, regardles...

The Khomani San Nation who live in the Northern Cape have elected a new leader. Petrus Vaalbooi has been unanimously elected as the new Chief of the Khomani San following a gathering of all eight tribes. He will lead the eight families that make up the Khomani San. The Khomani San are considered in some quarters as the aboriginal people of South Africa with a history spanning over 20-thousand year...

Relatives of the three family members who were killed at Loskop, near Estcourt, in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, claim they are being targeted by police. Authorities have denied the allegations, saying an investigation uncovered illegal firearms at the residence. A police officer was also wounded during the shootout. Fanele Mhlongo compiled this report

Social activist, Graca Machel says South African politics has become more about the individuals than issues currently facing the country. She was delivering the 3rd Annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Development Trust lecture at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. Machel says the challenges facing the country are not prioritised. Mcebisi Ngqina reports...

Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asia markets trading higher following another positive close on Wall Street overnight. The US Nonfarm Payroll monthly report is once again around the corner, with market players heading into it with low expectations amid the hurricanes that tore Texas and Florida in the month and Christine Lagarde said on Thursday that "the long-awaited global recov...

Bafana Bafana's dream of playing in the World Cup is hanging by a thread. A win against Burkina Faso is the only result they will be looking for when they host the West Africans on Saturday afternoon. Even that may not be enough as the would depend on other teams in the group to lose in their games. Ticket sales for the game have also have been on a slow pace but CEO of Stadium Management South Af...

Amnesty International has labelled the killing of the mayor of Nampula City, in Mozambique deplorable and deeply suspicious. It is understood that Mahamudo Amurane was shot at close range by an unknown gunmen on Wednesday after giving a speech. We speak to Professor David Matsinhe, who is a Researcher at Amnesty International Southern Africa Region.

The bird flu virus has now hit Johannesburg with over 500 birds culled since last month. The City of Johannesburg says several bird carcasses have tested positive for the H5N8 strain of the virus. Some birds at the Johannesburg Zoo have been affected, whilst carcesses have been found in popular parks including Zoo Lake and Emmerentia. Monte Casino Bird Gardens, north of Johannesburg, has been clos...