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Amathole District Municipality mayor, Nomasikizi Konza, and seven others implicated in a fraud and money laundering case have been released on bail by the East London magistrate's court in the Eastern Cape. They are facing charges of fraud and money laundering to the tune of over two million rand. This report by Yanga Funani

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it has decided to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal, to apply for leave to appeal against President Jacob Zuma's so-called spy tapes judgement. Last month, the Pretoria High Court ruled that the decision to withdraw charges was irrational. The Executive Secretary at the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), Lawson Na...

The woman who accused Western Cape ANC Chairperson, Marius Fransman, of sexual harassment has expressed disappointed after the case was dropped. The NPA has confirmed that the Director of Public Prosecutions in the North West declined to prosecute due to lack of evidence. Chris Mabuya reports

Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at the dollar which retreated against all of its major counterparts as traders weighed the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month and the G-7 Shows Gaps on Currency Tactics as Leaders' Summit Looms.

Alternative Tuesday with palm reader Silvana Smith

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has denied abusing state resources to bring a Burundian woman into the country. A report in the Suday Times paper reported that she smuggled the 28-year-old into South Africa after flying from Waterkloof Air Force Base to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect her. The woman was reportedly arrested for falsifying travel documen...

South Africans are being urged to expose and isolate those who promote violence during elections. President Jacob Zuma and different faith leaders led a National Prayer Day for peaceful local government elections in Durban yesterday. They also prayed for rain as well as national unity and social cohesion following the recent spate of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals. Our Presidential Corres...

The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, has called for transparency in housing allocation lists. Malema was addressing EFF supporters in Port Elizabeth that is part of the hotly contested Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. He says the housing list should be made public to avoid corruption in the allocation of houses. Siphokazi Chutu reports

The Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Professor Jonathan Jansen, and Professor Adam Habib, the Vice Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, have called for better leadership and more participation from communities in dealing with the violence that is threatening to characterise the education sector in the country. They were speaking at the Kingsmead Book Fair in Roseb...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has denied abusing state resources to bring a Burundian woman into the country. A report in the Suday Times paper reported that she smuggled the 28-year-old into South Africa after flying from Waterkloof Air Force Base to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect her. The woman was reportedly arrested for falsifying travel documen...

Today is the last day for voters wishing to participate in the upcoming Local Government Elections to either register or re-register in a new voting district or to update their registration details at their local IEC office. The local government elections are scheduled for the 3rd of August. A week ago, the IEC told parliament that preparations for the coming Local Government Elections have been t...

Jana van Deventer market Analyst from ETM Analytics looks at the main drivers behind the local currency's movements and Political risks that are lingering with the NPA expected to appeal the spy tapes ruling against President Zuma.

An innovative housing pilot project has been launched in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. An environmentaly-friendly structure is erected over an existing shack ensuring that the shack-owner does not have to relocate while their shack is being converted into a house. Tshwane Executive Mayor, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, says the coverted shacks, dubbed "the Lighthouse", take only four weeks to complete. The d...

Mineral Resources Minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, has told management at Impala Platinum Mine that his ministry will leave no stone unturned in determining the cause of fatal accidents at the mine. Last Tuesday a rock fall incident left one miner dead, while the other one remains trapped underground. This is the second fatal accident in four months, following the January incident, in which four miners...

The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions is hosting its annual conference in Mbabane, Swaziland, this week. The two-day conference will see more than seventeen members of the union deliberate alternatives to changes brought about by Climate Change. The gathering comes amid a decrease in agricultural production due to the recent drought that has hit many countries in the SADC regio...

Co-operative Governance Minister, David van Rooyen, says more emphasis will be put into training councillors after the elections. Van Rooyen was speaking at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Special National Members Assembly in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. SALGA has developed a new Induction Manual to train councillors which is inline with the back-to-basics approach ad...

A South African rifleman was among 129 fallen UN peacekeepers honoured by the United Nations with the posthumous awarding of the Dag Hammarskjold medal for the fallen military, police and civilian personnel killed in 2015. SANDF soldiers Toto Tom Malashe was killed when his unit was ambushed while escorting a logistics convoy as part of their deployment with joint AU-UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. T...

Monday the students of Fort Hare went on protest action demanding that management address their 16 demands before the 100-years celebrations, this as the university prepares to celebrate its centenary. Some of their demands are that those accepted by NSFAS, be given their meal cards with immediate effect and that the residence fee increment reversed. Some of the students were quoted as saying the...

Impala Platinum Mine near Rustenburg says chances of finding the missing miner still alive are getting slim. The mine revealed overnight that they found a body of one miner in an area with extremely unstable ground. The two miners were trapped underground on Tuesday following a rock fall. Mine spokesperson Johan Theron says they are continuing the search...

South Africa's most celebrated Deputy Chief Justice is set to retire, after serving 15 years on the bench. Justice Dikgang Moseneke helped steer South Africa's highest court - the Constitutional Court - over a tumultuous period shaping our laws in notable ways. With dogged determination, Moseneke faced off with politicians, both inside and outside the court, speaking truth to power. Some say that...

Co-operative Governance Minister, David van Rooyen, says more emphasis will be put into training councillors after the elections. Van Rooyen was speaking at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Special National Members Assembly in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. SALGA has developed a new Induction Manual to train councillors which is inline with the back-to-basics approach ad...

A community leader from Chibok in north eastern Nigeria says almost all the girls kidnapped over two years ago by Boko Haram are being held in the Sambisa forest. The leader was quoting a girl who has been rescued from the outskirts of the forest. Amina Ali Nkeki was found carrying a baby by an army-backed vigilante group in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. Over 200 girls rem...

In less than three months, South Africans will vote in the 2016 local government elections. However, in the build up to the vote, we've seen a number of community protests in the country. According to local government data and intelligence organisation, Municipal IQ, 2016 is set to be a record year for protest action. The organisation says this year has seen 70 protests compared to a total of 164...

The South African Communist Party has accused the head of the Hawks, Lieutenant-Genera Berning Ntlemeza of pursuing a political agenda. The party claims that Ntlemeza was overheard saying his 'new mandate' was to harass Communists and the next in line was Madoda Sambatha of North West. The SACP says the conduct of the Hawks under Ntlemeza's stewardship leaves much to be desired. We also caught up...

Students from the Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape resumed their violent protests last night with cars on the Alice campus being pelted with stones and tyres set alight. The protesting students are demanding that those accepted by NSFAS, be given their meal cards with immediate effect. They also want the residence fee increment reversed. Students broke into various buildings and looted tab...