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The annual Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture has been moved from the University of the Western Cape to the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town due to concerns relating to ongoing student protests. Pakistani human rights advocate Hina Jilani will deliver the lecture tonight to celebrate Tutu's 85th birthday. The Tibetan spritual leader the Dalai Lama launched the lecture in 2011. Executive Directo...

The academic programme at Wits University in Johannesburg is set to resume next Monday. This is after more than two weeks of disruptions by protesting students. On Wednesday, a group of students calling for the resumption of the academic programme, held a silent protest. But they were chased away by a group wanting the shutdown to continue. Noma Bolani report...

The SABC will soon get a new board. This is after parliament's Communications Committee took a unanimous decision that the current board has failed to carry out its mandate and therefore needs to be dissolved. On Wednesday, the committee called the board to account on various issues, including the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng first as COO and then as Group Executive for Corporate Affairs. Jose...

Anglo Gold Ashanti CEO, Sipho Pityana did not mince his words in his scorn of President Jacob Zuma at the Johannesburg Mining Indaba on Wednesday. Pityana maintained his calls that South African business and civil society demand that Zuma resigns. Our reporter Tshepo Mongoai has more...

Market analyst Clive 'ntozabantu Ramathibela looks at Asian markets and investments on the continent

University of Cape Town vice-chancellor, Max Price, says Government has missed an opportunity to resolve the crisis in national education. He says failure to continue with academic processes for this year would have disastrous consequences for the university. Dr. Price was addressing the media on the ongoing student protest over higher education fees. Mlamli Maneli reports...

The Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape has obtained an interim eviction order against its students refusing to vacate its residences. The university approached the Eastern Cape High Court in Bhisho seeking a legal eviction order after a number of students refused to vacate residences following a decision to close down the institution . However the order further says that the institution will...

Chaos erupted once again at Wits university's main campus yesterday as police fired stun grenades to disperse protesting students. This after a group of students began protesting in front of the campus's Great Hall. The protest action came as lectures resumed at the university following an online poll in which more than 70 percent of students voted for lectures to resume this week. Ditaba Tsotetsi...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has called the Hawks investigation "mischief in the real sense" adding that it was not doing the country any favours. Speaking to SABCNews in New York ahead of the South Africa Tomorrow Investor Conference, he said that everyone concerning the Hawks SARS investigation, knows there's nothing to investigate and the sooner it's put to bed, the better for the country. T...

There has been no progress at the controversial Rustenburg Local Municipality in North-West to resolve the stand-off between the ruling ANC and opposition parties. Following the day-long debates yesterday, on the legitimacy of several executive positions, the discussions where thrown into turmoil when the ANC Mayor, Chief Whip and Speaker decided to resign. The ANC says they mandated them to resig...

The University of the Witwatersrand will remain closed until Friday. This about turn of events follows a meeting, both Wits management and student representatives. Chaos broke out at the university yesterday after police released rubber bullets, and stune grenades on students. We spoke to Advocate Dali Mpofu on his visit to Wits

A family in Koster in the North West is loosing hope of ever seeing their eleven-year-old daughter again. Queen Mammie Nebe was sent to the shop by her father two weeks ago and never returned. Her family is devastated. Bafedile Moerane compiled this report.....

University student leaders who attended the Multi Stakeholder Forum on Universities hosted by the Higher Education Department refused to adopt the event's declaration. Stakeholders which included government, the students, parents, university management and civil society were engaged in dialogue on the current funding crisis faced by poor university students in South Africa. The Forum also tackled...

The ANC has vowed to halt the electoral decline, reclaim lost ground and restore the trust and confidence of the people by rooting out corruption within its ranks. This emerged at the end of its three-day National Executive Committee held at the weekend in Pretoria. The party identified factionalism, disunity and corruption as some of the factors that have contributed to its loss of electoral supp...

Second leg of fees must fall with Cosatu president Sdumo dlamini

The South African National Editors Forum (Sanef) has welcomed the ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeal declaring the signal jamming during last year's State of the Nation Address unlawful. The court also ruled that Parliament's broadcasting policy and rules are unconstitutional because they violate the right to an open Parliament. We are now joined on the line by Sanef executive director Mathatha...

President Jacob Zuma is meeting with justice crime prevention and security cluster to discuss ongoing violent students protests at several universities in the country. Students at this institution have been protesting for two weeks over the 2017 fee increment, as announced by Higher education minister Blade Nzimande last week. President Zuma instructed the JCPS to deal with the mayhem at tertiary...

The ANC chief whip in Parliament, Jackson Mthembu, says the SABC board has failed spectacularly in exercising its fiduciary obligations towards the broadcaster. This follows an announcement that the board has reappointed the previous COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, as Group Executive: Corporate Affairs. Mthembu addressed journalists in Parliament. Zalene Merrington reports...

Zimbabwe's constitutonal court has dismissed an application by the country's former vice president Joice Mujuru on government's proposed surrogate currency. Mujuru had gone to court arguing that plans to introduce a local bank notes were illegal and infringed on citizens rights. The Reserve Bank has announced it will introduce local notes of similar value to the US dollar by the end of October. Sh...

Wits University students have called on government to offer mining companies incentives that will encourage them to invest more in tertiary education. This is contained in the student's demands handed over to the Chamber of Mines following their march to the chamber's offices in the Johannesburg CBD yesterday (Wednesday). About 5-hundred students marched ot the Chamber demanding financial support...

Grahamstown police have arrested several Rhodes University students during a violent protest over tuition fees. Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the protesting students for allegedly vandalising property and blocking roads. A video posted to Twitter by the Grahamstown based student publication Oppidan Press, shows police dragging one student into a police van while other st...

Most black-owned companies will soon benefit fully from government's Broad Based Economic Empowerment objectives. President Jacob Zuma says government has decided to repeal the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, called the triple-PFA law. He was addressing the Black Business Council gala dinner in Sandton north of Johannesburg last night. The triple-PFA law stipulates that when governm...

The University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape has called on all students who want to resume their academic programme to report for class this morning ( Wednesday 28 September 2016). In a statement, the university's management warned that failure by students to return will result in a shut down of all campuses and students will have to leave the residences. For more on this we are joined on the l...

Former SABC Chief Operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has been moved back to his old position of Group Executive for Corporate affairs. SABC board chairperson Professor Mbulaheni Maguvhe made the announcement at a media briefing yesterday (tuesday 27 September ). The Supreme Court of Appeal recently dismissed Motsoeneng's application for leave to appeal a ruling that his permanent appointment as...

As World Green Building Week raises awareness around green buildings and the role they play in our sustainable future, green construction and renewable energy group STAG African has called on the construction industry to commit to building offices, homes, hospitals and schools that protect and preserve natural resources. The group says buildings consume one third of the world's energy and are resp...