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Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian equities as they fall toward a one-month low, Vodacom Overtakes MTN as Africa's Biggest Mobile-Phone Company and Thursday Investment Theme is the significance of South Africa falling 3rd in Africa as an economy.

Nerina Visser, strategist and advisor at ETFSA looks at the World Economic Forum on Africa for 2016 is currently underway in Kigali, Rwanda and South Africa now only the third largest economy in Africa, after Nigeria and Egypt

An economist at KPMG, Christie Viljoen, says South Africa has slipped to number 3 on the African continent, and is not only behind Nigeria, but now also Egypt. That's according to Viljoen's analysis based on the International Monetary Fund's latest figures. South Africa lost its status as the continent's largest economy in 2014, when it finished an exersice to rebase its economic data. Now, KPMG n...

Inspirational Wednesday with The Rockstar of Speakers Vusi Thembekwayo

Dream Interpretation with Zinzi Faba

Fun and Flirty Friday with Janez Vermeiren from The Man Cave

Residents of Agincourt in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga are calling for the resignation of their Municipal Regional Manager, Ephraem Nkuna. They are accusing him of corruption and employing politically connected people. The angry residents marched to the municipality's regional offices and handed over a memorandum yesterday. Mthobisi Mkhaliphi reports....

Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says the country has reached a stage where it needs to decide whether it wants a defence force or not. Speaking to the media ahead of her department's budget vote the Minister said the budget vote should decide where the country is going to and if it wants to influence the direction in which the continent is going. Joseph Mosia reports

With the local elections coming in less than three months' time, service delivery protests are on the increase. This is according to data collected by Municipal IQ, an organisation that specialises in research on service delivery protests. In a statement, Karen Heese, who is an Economist at the Municipal IQ has expressed concern about an increase in service delivery protests just before elections.

The SABC says from today, it will play 90% local music across all platforms. This in a bid to ensure that the broadcaster prioritises more local content that reflects the diversity of South African cultures. This follows extensive consultation with various stakeholders including music representatives. The public broadcaster says it will continue to engage its audiences to evaluate whether they are...

KG spoke to TT Mbha

Nerina Visser strategist and adviser at ETF SA looks at the global ratings agencies, what is the direct impact on the amount of money government can spend and there is growing focus on small business development in SA

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian Commodity, Oil companies using alternate energy to spike their performances with weak oil prices and South Africa approves SABMiller, Coke bottling deal on condition.

Impeachment calls for the high court Judge, Mabel Jansen is growing after she allegedly made racist and bigotry comments on social media against black people. In a conversation with the Co-Founder of Media Justice and Activist Gillian Schutte, Jansen said that black people's conduct is despicable because gang rapes of babies, daughters and mothers is a pleasurable past time. Activist Gillian Schut...

Liberation movements say they are concerned by what they call attempts by western countries to effect regime change within the southern Africa region. These parties include the ANC, Tanzania's Chama-Cha-Mapinduzi, Frelimo of Mozambique, Swapo of Namibia, Angola's MPLA and Zimbabwe's ruling Zannu-PF. They met at the holiday resort of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe over the past weekend to take stalk of...

The department of health is planning to launch a programme next month, geared towards keeping young women away fro the so-called blessers. The announcement was made during Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's budget speech in parliament yesterday. The wide-ranging plan would according to the minister, have 5 objectives, which include decreasing infection rates in young women and girls including decr...

The controversial Gauteng E-Toll project has once again generated a fierce debate in the National Assembly. This as the Transport Minister Dipuo Peters delivered her budget vote. Concern over vandalism of public property, rail safety and reliability also came un der the spotlight. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more..

COSATU has called for an urgent jobs summit to discuss what they call shocking and depressing unemployment figures released by Stats SA. This after President Jacob Zuma met with labour and business leaders to discuss job creation and economic growth in our country. Ahead of the State Of The Nation in February this year, the President established a business-government task team to explore ways the...

The Department of Trade and Industry is to launch a dedicated gas industrialisation unit next week to drive the latest industrial policy action plan (ipap. )The programme is in collaboration with other government departments and industry stakeholders. An action plan for the unit has already been developed by a working group consisting of departmental officials, industry experts and representatives...

The South African Police Service says it will assess the seriousness of an alleged plot to kill Public Protector Thuli Madonsela - before deciding whether to beef up her security. SAPS says it is working with its various structures including crime intelligence and the Western Cape Provincial Commissioner's office to investigate claims made to Madonsela by a whistleblower that a Western Cape gang b...

What, if anything, will the Constitutional Court do about our less than perfect national voters roll? The clock is ticking for a solution, as the voters roll must be certified by the end of May in order to be ready for the August municipal elections. The IEC wants the Constitutional Court to intervene after the Electoral Court set aside the voters roll for the Tlokwe by-elections. This was because...

Market Analyst Clive Intozabantu Ramathibela looks at Asian commodity producers drop amid a slump in oil and industrial metals, oil producers are evacuating workers from the Niger Delta because of the deteriorating security situation and South African unemployment hits record high.

Yesterday was a blue Monday on markets with topping the list of bad news was the first Quater Labour survey, mining stocks falling and Eskom is not forecasting any load shedding for this winter

Market Analyst Clive Ntozabantu Ramathibela looks at Asian shares trading which are mostly lower, China steel export surge this year and Bonitas and Liberty medical scheme set to merge

Strategist at ETFSA Nerina Visser looks at Moody’s to NOT downgrade SA’s sovereign rating, one of the factors contributing factors for the lack of domestic economic growth is the weak outlook globally and the Rand weakened quite dramatically at one stage last week