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Modern slavery is reported to be rife in South Africa. The Global Slavery Index says there are about 250-thousand people who are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, forced marriage and forced labour in the country. The Index also noted that South African women have been trafficked abroad, mainly to Europe. South Africa ranks 27th on the Index with Trinidad and Tobago. For a reaction to th...

Trade Union Solidarity has threatened to take the Minister of Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula to the labour court over the quotas in sport. The Deputy Chief Executive of Solidarity Johan Kruger says the banning of sporting codes because of racial quotas amounts to unfair labour practice. We caught up with him for more on this story...

A new drug trend called Sizzurp, or purple drink is making the rounds in schools in Cape Town's southern suburbs. Parents are warned to take note of the homemade drug, which is a mix of codeine-based prescription cough syrup and cool drinks. It produces a feeling of euphoria. To discuss this further we earlier had a chat with Roger Wyman from the Central Alcohol and Drug Centre.

Market Analyst Clive Ntozabantu Ramathibela looks at Asian markers which struggled on mixed data and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is expected to sales tax rise by two and a half years.

Investment Analyst at 27Four Investment Managers Nadir Thokan looks at what might happen after Standards & Poor's decision on South Africa’s rating, NO end in sight for the turmoil at PPC, any end in sight and the return of bullish sentiment to Naspers.

Yellow Monday Interview about a company called the Yellowbone Factory

The KwaZulu-Natal Social Development Department has urged parents to be cautious and be on the look out for any behavioural changes in their children. This follows the discovery of a drug lab at Chatsworth south of Durban where drugs were produced that look similar to jelly babies sweets. It is suspected that these new drugs are aimed at primary school learners. Nonkululeko Hlophe reports.

South Africa's municipal financing model and its rural development systems need to push rural municipalities to accumulate sources of their own revenue more than ever before. That's the word from the Financial and Fiscal Commission chair and Chief Executive Officer, Bongani Khumalo. According to the commission, sluggish economic growth, a weak currency, the effects of the drought and stubbornly hi...

Schooling remains suspended in Vuwani as residents still opposed to be included into a new municipality in the Vhembe region. This is despite countless meetings led by the inter-ministerial task team to stabilise the situation. A panel of mediators was nominated by the inter- ministerial committee to look into the situation and Vuwani and find solutions. We spoke to Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa who...

Residents of Sizanani informal settlement in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga have warned government officials to immediately attend to their demands of better services in their area. They are threatening not to go to the polls come this year's Local Government Elections in August should the Emhlalahleni Local Municipality not provide them with electricity, clean drinkable water and proper road infrastructu...

Mineworkers Union AMCU- has suspended its strike at Sibanye Platinum Mine formerly known as Aquarius in Kroondal near Rustenburg in the North West. The mine obtained a court interdict preventing the workers from continuing with the strike. Mineworkers downed tools last week Friday demanding the mine provides them with transport, as they were being attacked after working night shift. Zebilon Maine...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian markets in the positive, the JSE up despite losses in gold mines and financials and emerging market dream story may be over.

The KwaZulu-Natal Social Development Department has urged parents to be cautious and be on the look out for any behavioural changes in their children. This follows the discovery of a drug lab at Chatsworth south of Durban where drugs were produced that look similar to jelly babies sweets. It is suspected that these new drugs are aimed at primary school learners. Nonkululeko Hlophe report

Investment Analyst at 27Four Investment Managers Nadir Thokan talks about the unbundling of Bidvest food services and the Eurozone Economic Confidence has strengthened

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks whats happening in the Asian Markets and the yoan ¥ is hurting the Chinese economy

Investment Analyst from 27Four Investments Nadir Token looks at the impact on Gold prices of the of the US interest rates moves, the substantial 100-US dollar outflow from equity funds this year and talks about at Truworths investment?

The Presidency has denies reports that President Jacob Zuma refused to his jet Inkwazi. Speaking to Sakina Kamwendo on AMLive, the spokesperson for the President Dr Bongani Ngqulunga said Zuma had been invited to officiate at a Toyota event in Durban. He said requested the Department of Defence to provide him with a reliable aircraft.

Inspirational Wednesday with the Loeries Chairperson Neo Mashigo about Creativity in Africa

Alternative Tuesday with a psychic

26 May - Extraordinary Thursday with Bsc graduate and domestic worker Zanele Sibiya

Government has embarked on the annual Child Protection Week campaign which began yesterday and will continue until June the fifth. This year's theme is "Let Us All Protect Children To Move South Africa Forward". The campaign was launched at Braakspruit Farm, outside Klerksdorp in the North West Province. Issues of child labour and exploitation are common on farms. To chat to us about this, we spok...

The Democratic Alliance says it will go ahead with its plans to lodge a complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (icasa), stating that the SABC has allegedly refused to air its election advertisement. In a statement,the DA says the SABC had informed the party that it had no available slots for political advertisements. The DA said the SABC blamed its refusal to air i...

Earlier the trade union AMCU has vowed to continue with its strike at the Sibanye Platinum mine, despite the company's issuing of a court order declaring the strike unprotected, but has since suspended it. The biggest union in South Africa's platinum industry embarked on the strike at the mine last month. It's demanding transport and safety allowances as well as bonuses. Earlier we caught up with...

Sentencing proceedings are set to get under way today in the Western Cape High Court in the case of the woman convicted of kidnapping Zephany Nurse 19 years ago. The 51-year-old woman from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats was found guilty on three charges - kidnapping, fraud and contravening sections of the Childre ns Act. Zephany was kidnapped from Groote Schuur hospital when she was three-days-ol...

The Central Energy Fund says South Africa still has access to 90 days worth of crude oil reserves. This follows media reports suggesting that the country's strategic reserves have been drained to three hundred thousand barrels, enough for less than one day. The reports allege that the Central Energy Fund, the guardian of SA's strategic crude oil stocks, sold ten million barrels of crude without ob...