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With the latest on-going violence against foreign nationals, the Minister of Police Nathi Nhleko, has launched a Campaign against Afrophobia, which will focus on behavioural change. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the MInister...

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Gauteng police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Lungelo Dlamini

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Industrials and miners push the JSE to new highs , Rand slightly former as dollar softens, and Oil hits 2015 high as US output slows: Sakina Kamwendo speaks to our resident market analyst Clive Ramathibela

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says there is no excuse for the current spate of xenophobic attacks. the Minister says people should take their grievances to government

More on Sakina Kamwendo's interview with Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on xenophobia. Gigaba says there is no excuse for the current spate of xenophobic attacks. The Minister says people should take their grievances to government. Five people have been killed and many foreign nationals have fled their homes since the attacks started two weeks ago

Richard Branson of the Virgin Group is a regular visitor to South Africa, and yesterday he cashed in on a very lucrative investment here, the rise of China in world markets is a subject with which we are all too familiar, and Greece is back in the news. Nerina Visser, strategist at ETF SA with more analysis ...

Asian markets update with market analyst Clive Ramathibela: Asian stocks rebound to 2008 high as material shares lead gains, the latest numbers from China show the government is facing huge challenge and Japan’s prisons are turning into nursing homes

Police say the situation in the Durban CBD, where foreigners came under attack is calm. Police spokesperson, Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale, says police are still deployed, but no new incidents of xenophobic attacks have been reported. He says the violence have spread to other parts of KwaZulu-Natal

President Jacob Zuma has expressed outrage at the upsurge of xenophobic attacks in the country. Five people have been killed in attacks in Durban and surrounding townships and the violence has since spread to Pietermaritzburg and Howick. Foreign shop owners in the Johannesburg CBD closed their doors after receiving warning calls. Presidential Correspondents Tshepo Ikaneng and Mzwandile Mbeje spoke...

A market update and economic news with Nerina Visser, Strategist at ETF SA: Old Mutual surprised the market yesterday with news of a management change right at the top, US stock markets rallied again last night and Tax Freedom Day in America

Asian stocks fell, with a regional benchmark index poised to snap its longest winning streak since December 2013, China's Rally Is Pushing Its Companies Back Into the Rank of World's Largest Stocks and US retail data misses estimates but still shows positivity

Violence erupted in the Durban CBD as foreign nationals retaliated when locals tried to loot their shops. Hundreds of people across the greater Ethekwini Municipality have been forced to flee over the past week, to escape attacks and looting. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to State Security Minister David Mahlobo and political analyst, Professor Somadoda Fikeni

An economics news update with ETF Strategist & Advisor Nerina Visser : • The IMF has again downgraded its outlook for SA GDP – to just 2% – citing electricity shortages as the primary reason • The US earnings season and, • The world's central bankers and finance ministers gather in Washington this week for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank

Market update with markets analyst Clive Ramathibela: Chinese stocks rally and surge the MSCI Asia Pacific index, Eskom woes continues as the workers down tools in support of fired contract workers at Medupi power plant, Rand drops by 1% as the Dollar strengths again major currencies

Malawian authorities say they are working to repatriate about 400 of their nationals who have been made homeless during a wave of anti-immigrant violence in Durban, South Africa. The Information Minister Kondwani Nankhumwa says that many have fled their homes with nothing. The Malawian authorities are organising temporary travel documents for those being driven from their homes and hope they will...

An update of economic news and markets with Nerina Visser, ETF Strategist & Advisor: Naspers broke through R2000 per share intraday yesterday • BHP Billiton recently announced plans to create a new global mining company called South32 through a demerger

An update of economic news and markets with Nerina Visser, ETF Strategist & Advisor • Naspers broke through R2000 per share intraday yesterday • BHP Billiton recently announced plans to create a new global mining company called South32 through a demerger

The EFF leader Julius Malema will have to wait until the first of June to know whether his provisional sequestration order is made final or scrapped by the North Gauteng High court. This is according to court papers filed by the South African Revenue Service (Sars). Malema has been accused by Sars, of lying about his source of income. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Malema's Lawyer, Tumi Mokwena.

Battle for the leadership of the DA has begun following Helen Zille's announcement that she will not stand for re-election at the party's elective congress slated for the 9th of May in Port Elizabeth.

1. The Fed is focused & steady, the ECB is accommodative and generous, and markets are in celebratory mood - will Q1 results season in the US be the party pooper? 2. If all of this is making you nervous, should you try to avoid a possible bear market, or just ride out the inevitable pullbacks? 3. Helen on the way out, Hillary on the way in? It's a bit like Greece on the way out, Iran on the way in...

1. Japanese stocks swung between gains and losses after the Nikkei 225 Stock Average briefly traded above 20,000 for the first time in 15 years 2. China's benchmark money-market rate was set to drop for a sixth week, the longest run of declines in six years 3. If history is anything to go by, the Shell Company by out of BG group could signal that oil has bottomed out and it's about to gain momentu...

The statue of British colonialist, Cecil John Rhodes has been removed from its prime location at the University of Cape Town's upper campus. The statue sat perched on his plinth for 81 years overlooking the greater Cape Town area. Its removal came following an intense month-long campaign by university students calling for transformation of the University. The UCT council voted overwhelmingly to re...

South Africa's business confidence index fell to a 3-month low China's inflation data for March out this morning Tencent valuation vs Facebook valuation