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The strategic fuel stocks transaction, which we were made to believe was nothing but a rotation of fuel stock by the Department of Energy, was actually a sale of stock. This unsettling revelation was made by the new Energy Minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi, in Parliament yesterday. The Auditor-General has previously found that the sale of these stockpiles was illegal and no permission was obtained from T...

Bussai Mathebula talks to Thabang Sibiya who is a Sales Consultant at South African National Parks. We find out if Thabang is enjoying his rights to the fullest as a person who is living with disabilities.

Today marks World Press Freedom day and the United Nations has called on global leaders to defend media freedom. 3 May was proclaimed World Press Freedom Day by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth session of UNESCO's General Conference in 1991. The day seeks to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom as well as to pay tribute to jour...

The National Prosecuting Authority has changed the charge against Elvis Ramosebudi from conspiracy to commit murder to incitement to commit murder. Ramosebud was arrested by the Hawks for allegedly plotting to kill 19 people, including cabinet officials. His case was yesterday postponed to Friday for further investigation. Ditaba Tsotetsi reports

More criminal charges are expected to be added in the case involving two men accused of killing a 16-year-old boy in Coligny in the North West. Pieter Doorenwaard and Phillip Schutte, were applying for bail yesterday (tuesday 2 May),and the matter was postponed to today. Despite the murder charges they are facing, fresh charges including kidnapping, defeating the ends of justice and intimidation o...

The World Economic Forum Africa is kicking off under the theme, inclusive growth in Durban. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Head of WEF Africa, Elsie Kanza

Police Minister, Fikile Mbalula, has warned that police will be harsh on criminals. He was speaking while visitIng Nyanga Junction on the Cape Flats where a security guard and robbers were shot during a hostage situation on the May Day public holiday. The security guard has since died in hospital. Mbalula has praised police and security staff for their efforts to diffuse the situation. Chris Mabuy...

ANC Provincial Chairperson Ace Magashule has labelled chaotic scenes in the Free State, where President Jacob Zuma was heckled and booed as embarrassing. Zuma was expected to deliver a keynote address at Cosatu's National May Day celebrations in Bloemfontein. This forced Cosatu to cancel the rest of the programme. Mbali Sibanyoni reports

Cosatu general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali used the federation's May Day celebrations in Gauteng to boost Cyril Ramaphosa's campaign to lead the ANC. He called on the federation's membership to start lobbying for deputy president Ramaphosa to lead the ANC and the country. He was speaking during the federation's march outside the JSE as part of May Day commemoration. Senior political journalist...

A bail application of two men accused of killing a sixteen year old Coligny boy, will be heard this morning at the Coligny Magistrate Court in the North West. The matter was initially set of the 9th of this month, after the presiding magistrate in the case recused himself, citing fears for his safety. Yesterday {01/05}, the North West High Court granted an urgent application to bring forward to to...

Police have shot and injure a suspect hiding inside the Nyanga Junction Shopping Centre near Manenberg last night following the release of the last 10 hostages. Police say they went back to search the centre after the hostages were freed yesterday. They also found two weapons used in a robbery at the Shoprite store. A security guard was fighting for his life last night after he was shot during a h...

The SACP says if it were in COSATU's position, it is not likely to have invited President Jacob Zuma to address the main May Day rally. Some COSATU affiliates say the labour federation's decision to invited Zuma to address the rally in Bloemfontein is not consistent with its call for him to step down. Several other rallies will take place across the country. Trade union NUMSA and the newly-formed...

COSATU is adamant that its alliance partner the ANC has deployed its president Jacob Zuma to address the main May Day rally in Bloemfontein. The Trade Federation President Sdumo Dlamini says ❝Looking at it from where you'd be standing, you'd day no this thing doesn't make sense. It's the same person on all the positions but the point here is - the ANC had deployed its president. We don't want this...

SAfm listener Felix in Nelspruit, Mpamalanga explains what economic and political freedom- says political freedom is a vehicle to economic freedom, which is now being stripped

Keeping the tri-partied alliance whole is of utmost importance says the ANC Treasurer General Dr Zweli Mkhize. He delivered a Chris Hani Memorial lecture in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He also said that the concern of South Africans about the development in our polity, economy and the debate on state capture cannot be denied. Our Reporter Nkululeko Nyembezi was there and filed this report

Lungile Malinga, Equity Research Analyst at Effectus Capital Management looks at the Asian Markets Markets, Producer Price Inflation figures came out on Wednesday and Business Leadership SA says there is more pain to be felt in SA foreign direct investment after the credit rating downgrade in SA.

Several students who wrote the Multiple Examination Opportunity introduced by the department of Basic Education last year January have been left in the lerch. One of them, an SAfm listener, Lee Fearick, who sent us a message on Twitter says he wrote his last paper in July of 2016 at Sir John Adamson High School in the South of Johannesburg and is still to receive his matric results. 21 year old Fe...

The Communication Worker's Union (CWU) has added its voice in calling for President Jacob Zuma not to be allowed as a guest speaker at the May Day celebration on the 1st of May. This follows a request to COSATU by the National Education Health and Workers Union (NEHAWU) that President Zuma be replaced by an eligible leader of the ANC as the main speaker at the rally. Is this another way of showing...

23 years later, Dr Hleze Kunju's doctoral thesis, written in his home language of IsiXhosa, has been described as ground-breaking and a glimmer of hope for a decolonised and transformed education system in the country. He speaks Dr Kunju for more details on his journey of the development of indigenous languages for academic writing

Struggle Stalwart Omar Badsha says South Africa has a government that is NOT united which is making things very difficult. Speaking to Sakina Kamwendo on #AMLive said Mr Omar says we are in the middle of a crisis that needs to be well handled.

A number of opposition parties and civil society organisations will mark Freedom Day at a rally to be held in Pretoria today. The 'Reclaim our Freedom Rally' will be held under the banner of the Freedom Movement. Leaders of the UDM, the DA, OUTA, FEDUSA and the Religious Council will address the rally. The late president Nelson Mandela's personal assistant Zelda Le Grange and political activist Pr...

The Hawks have arrested a 23-year old man in Midrand for allegedly plotting to assassinate officials perceived as state capture beneficiaries. The Hawks says officers intercepted communication material of possible assassinations of several members of Cabinet, state-owned entities and other prominent South Africans. Hawks spokesperson, Hangwane Mulaudzi says the African man is a founding member of...

Police presence is expected to continue today to monitor the situation at three townships of Itsoseng, Blaaideville and Coligny in North West. Residents are demanding for the provision of basic services such as water and housing from the cash strapped Ditsobotla Local Municpality. The council has been struggling to pay its staff wages as well as service providers such as Eskom. Sakina Kamwendo cha...

Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of Zambia's main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, ahead of today's bail hearing. Hichilema and his colleagues were detained three weeks ago after they allegedly failed to give way to a Presidential convoy. Amnesty International says the charges are just designed to intimidate him from doing his work. Sakina Kamwendo chats to Amnesty I...