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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is making progress in turning around struggling state-owed enterprises. Ramaphosa has told the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) that the majority of the SOE's are performing well and contributing to both the fiscus and transformation. Joseph Mosia reports

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian stock markets

North West government has been paying the salaries of 37 000 public servants who cannot be accounted for. This revelation comes as the Premier of North West Supra Mahumapelo was briefing the standing committee on public accounts in Mahikeng yesterday. Mahumapelo says this emerged during a process to verify government employee in their salary payment system. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo speaks to D...

It is still not clear whether the troubled Roodepoort Primary School on Gauteng's East Rand will reopen soon. An independent mediation task team has finalised and submitted its report with recommendations to the Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, for consideration. The school has been in the spotlight with allegations of corruption and racism and was temporarily closed two weeks ago. Sakin...

Public shaming on social media was recently cast into the spotlight after a teenage girl in Washington threw herself off a bridge days after her father cut her hair and posted the video online. A simple search of "child-shaming" on Youtube shows more than thirty-thousand results. In the wake of this our reporter Orrin Singh found out more about public shaming and the damage it could do to young mi...

Market Analyst at 27Four investments Nadir Thokan looks at Mckinsey's report on South Africa and the US manufacuring PMI.

Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice Chancellor, Professor Wim de Villiers, has conceded that racism does exist on the university campus. He was briefing Parliament's portfolio committee on Higher Education and Training on allegations of racism levelled against the university. They're made in a video titled "Luister", made by a lobby group calling for transformation at Stellensbosch University....

Durban has been named as the host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. SASCOC CEO, Tubby Reddy, part of the bid presentation team, says it has been a tough process. The announcement was made in Auckland, New Zeeland by outgoing Commonwealth Games President Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela talks about Asian stocks, US markets feel a lot of volatility and SA shows trade deficit in July has increased

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria is to invest in cement, power and coal mining in Zimbabwe. Dangote who was in Zimbabwe yesterday says his team will be in the country as early as next week for further exploration. The 58 year old multi billionaire is on an aggressive expansion drive across sub-saharan African. Last month, his company Dangote Group opened 450 million dollar cement pla...

Market Analyst at 27Four investments Nadir Thokan looks ArcelorMittal South Africa is planning to shut two mills and is reviewing operations at its largest plant, the mining agreement signed between government labour and business and China Factory PMI Falls to 47.3

South Africa is being denied the opportunity to send its best team to the Rugby World Cup 2015 due to political interference. This is according to the Freedom Front Plus who is now appealing to the British government to take urgent note of alleged political interference in sport in the country. Freedom Front Plus' parliamentary spokesperson on sport, Advocate Anton Alberts, says this type of inter...

Family of the man who allegedly killed his wife with a live grenade and that of the deceased, shocked by incident at Amanzimtoti, south of Durban. These two families visited the home of the two where the crime took place. Qiniso Mbili reports

A startling allegations of securitisation fraud by the Big Four banks has been revealed. According to Banking Law Advisor's Advocate Douglas Shaw, banks have been deceiving home owners as if they are still the registered bond owners, when in fact they are not. This allows them to collect mortgage bond payments on behalf of the new owners and take judgment against defaulting borrowers, neither of w...

The Collective Mix

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The South African Communist Party has urged government to scale up its re-industrialisation efforts in order to spur economic growth. This is part of its resolutions taken at the end of its Central Executive meeting in Johannesburg. The two day meeting focussed mainly on the struggling economy and the weaker rand. SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande says the economy needs to be industrialised wi...

Market Analyst at 27Four investments Nadir Thokan looks at the impact of the Chinese turmoil on the Federal Reserve, looks at Naspers and current and current account data is coming out of SA today.

Markets analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian currencies set for Biggest monthly decline in three years, Japan Stocks Fall, Extending Biggest Monthly Loss Since 2012 and SA's imposes tariffs in steel imports

North West University in Mahikeng, was a hive of political activities this past weekend. Both EFF Student Command and ANC Progressive Youth Alliance held election campaigns ahead of the much anticipated SRC elections to be held this morning. The campaign saw the country's political bigwigs attending the campaigns in a bid to woo students to vote for their respective organisations. Lucas Mothibedi...

South African can breathe a sigh of relief in terms of load shedding. President Jacob Zuma officially opened one of six generating units at Medupi Power Station in Lephalale, Limpopo. The commercial operation of Unit 6 of the Medupi power station will add 800 megawatts to the country's strained electricity grid. For more on this we're now joined on the line by Eskom's spokesperson,Khulu Phasiwe

Eastern Cape Premier, Phumulo Masualle, has promised that his government will assist the affected families who lost their loved ones in two gruesome road accidents in the province this weekend. A total of 46 passengers have perished in two separate road accidents that happened at Cradock, where a taxi overturned killing nine people, as well as in Willowvale where a bus plunged into a cliff killing...

Parents who fail to act against children who are absent from school for no reason, should be arrested for irresponsible and reckless parenting. This is according to the Executive Chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), Yershen Pillay. He wrote an article titled "Arrest parents of serial offenders" - which highlighted the importance of shared responsibility for the quality educ...

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The Municipal Demarcation Board has concluded its resolutions for the determination and re-determination of certain municipal boundaries. 23 per cent of the 32 cases have been concluded. This follows a request by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan with an aim to make certain municipalities more sustainable and financially viable. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to...