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Police have opened a case of public violence after five vehicles were set alight at the Bellville campus of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. No one was injured during the fires and police say no one has been arrested as yet. The owner of one of the vehicles says he suspects a third force involvement in the incident. Mlamli Maneli reports...

Two people have been killed in gang related violence in the townships of eTwatwa and Daveyton on Gauteng's East Rand. Community members says groups of young men believed to be linked to gangsters have been on a rampage without any police intervention. We caught up with two community members for more details, (Thamba and Castro)

KG chats to Cancer survivor Vatiswa Bokwe

KG chats to Psychic Natasha

DA Chief Whip John Steenhuisen has challenged ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu and those ministers who are allegedly unhappy about the current state of the ANC, to support the DA's motion to remove President Jacob Zuma from office. This comes after Mthembu called on ANC NEC members to resign. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more..........

The ANC says Party Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu will not be removed from his position despite calls that he be axed. This follows Mthembu's calls for the entire ANC's National Executive Committee to step down. Mthembu says the party's leadership has messed up and should therefore take a collective fall and its reduced support in the August local elections was proof of this. Mthembu is also concerned...

The Helen Suzman Foundation and Freedom Under Law have filled an urgent application to have the recent criminal charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan set aside. In a joint statement the two organisations say they have asked prosecuting boss Shaun Abrahams to give more information about the charges or to withdraw them voluntarily but he has failed to do so. The NPA has charged Gordhan and...

The ANC says Party Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu will not be removed from his position despite calls that he be axed. This follows Mthembu's calls for the entire ANC's National Executive Committee to step down. Mthembu says the party's leadership has messed up and should therefore take a collective fall and its reduced support in the August local elections was proof of this. Mthembu is also concerned...

The controversial Annual National Assessment (ANA) which the teacher's union SADTU has been fighting against has been cancelled. The Union says although it is pleased that the ANA will be replaced by a new systematic assessment, there are other outstanding issues that still need to be ironed out. We caught up with both the General Secretary of SADTU, Mugwena Maluleke and Basic education spokespers...

The newly-appointed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says she is not in competition with her predecessor, Thuli Madonsela. This is in the wake of Mkhwebane's perceived public attacks on Madonsela during Wednesday's briefing in parliament when she was presenting her office's 2015/16 annual report. The report reveals donations from foreign NGOs to Madonsela's office which some MPs have perceived...

Former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, has clarified issues around the use of consultants and accepting donor funding. This comes after her successor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, said she would change the way things are done during her time in office. She told Parliament's Justice committee that she would not source donor funding to protect the sovereignty of the office and they would use little or no...

Cabinet has called on protesting tertiary education students to save the 2016 academic year warning of the negative consequences to the economy if they do not do so. Speaking at a media briefing in Pretoria yesterda following Wednesday's (19/10) meeting of the executive, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe says that cabinet shares the sentiments of students on the high cost of education and thr...

Wits University spokesperson Shirona Patel has confirmed that student leader Shaeera Kalla was shot multiple times with rubber bullets and that she had been admitted to hospital. Several other students were also injured when they clashed with police while disrupting exams at the university's West Campus. Meanwhile, the South African Police Services have issued a statement concerning the matter. Na...

KG chats to sis Gcina Mhlope about the Essence Music Festival

The Africa Empowered investment company has proposed a nation-building fund - which will not be either a government or private sector fund - to assist with the current fees issue at tertiary institutions. This was revealed at a media briefing in Johannesburg yesterday. Vuyo Jack, chairman of Africa Empowered has the details...

The University of the Western Cape says there will be no further lectures on campus. However, alternative measures are being implemented. The decision follows ongoing protests. Yesterday major clashes between students and police took place and at least one student was arrested. Students were angered after management failed to attend a scheduled meeting. For more on the academic year we are joined...

The Minister of Police has written a letter to Suspended IPID Head, Robert McBride, informing him that their work relationship is "irretrievably broken". In his statement, the minister further advised McBride to seek clarity from the Speaker of the National Assembly on where he needs to report for duty. McBride is due to report to duty today, after the Police's Portfolio Committee in Parliament di...

Hundreds of Mozambican nationals gathered at the heroes square in the country's capital city Maputo for the 30th commemoration of the death of president Samora Machel. President Machel and other officials were returning from a summit in Zambia when their plane crashed at Mbuzini village near the border of Mozambique and Swaziland south east of Mpumalanga. Machel and 34 others were killed. Vusi Twa...

South Africa is to use it's position in the International Atomic Energy Agency to advance the continent's development agenda. That's according to Pretoria's ambassador to Vienna, Tebogo Seokolo. Seokolo was appointed earlier this month to chair the strategic multi-lateral body, which has the responsibility to ensure the safe, peaceful use of nuclear technology. It's the first time since 1959, that...

A small group of student protesters have handed over an open letter to officials at the South African Consulate in New York. This in support of the protesting South African students demanding free quality higher education and the decolonization of tertiary institutions. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at mixed Asian markets that are mostly down as oil declines from lack of demand, Chinese data struggles to provide certainty as it highlights growth concerns and why China has technically over taken US as the largest economy

Head of Strategic Research-Nedbank CIB, Mohammed Nalla looks at SA markets as Chinese GDP rises by 6.7%, inline with expectations, US and U.K. Inflation rises as global trends show uptick in prices and all eyes on SA inflation numbers to be released today which are expected to move back above 6%

Former President Kgalema Motlanthe says addressing the material conditions of all South Africans is the key to combating racism. Motlanthe was speaking at the Hashtag Reporting Race Conference taking place in Auckland Park Johannesburg. The conference focuses on how to report on race - exploring freedom of expression and censorship in terms eradicating racism. Among those attending are struggle st...

Students at the University of Pretoria have accused police of targeting their leaders in an attempt to end the FeesMustFall protests. UP student leader Rasethaba Mosibudi was arrested and appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate court on Tuesday. The situation remains clam at the university as the police and private security are maintaining a heavy presence on campus where access is under strict contro...

The Portfolio Committee on Energy has sent senior management of the Department of Energy packing after they failed to present a comprehensive report on the forensic investigation into the loss of R14.5 billion at Petro-SA. In the 2014/15 financial year, Petro-SA had reported a loss of R14.5 billion. This was due in part to the non-performance Project Ikhwezi, a gas-replenishing programme at Mosgas...