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Parliament's Powers and Privileges Committee report recommending sanctions against the 20 EFF MPs who were found guilty of misconduct, will be debated in the National Assembly today. The Committee will seek the final approval of the Assembly, before sanctions can be implemented against the affected members. They are facing various penalties ranging from 30 days suspension from Parliament to one mo...

The defence for murder accused Shrien Dewani is expected to bring an application in the Western Cape High Court tomorrow, the 19th of November 2014 to have charges against him dropped. This after the state closed its case. Dewani has pleaded not guilty to five charges including murder and kidnapping. He allegedly arranged the hit on his Swedish wife Anni Dewani in November 2010. SABC's Berenice Mo...

Chris Gilmour, analyst at Absa wealth and investment management looks at: 1) Japan’s stock market rebounded this morning after falling heavily yesterday. What caused this and what is the outlook for Japan’s economy now that it is officially in recession? 2) Against an extremely poor local consumer economy, Mr Price confounded the pundits with very strong interim earnings growth yesterday. What’s t...

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says he is NOT leaving the union federation. Vavi admitted that he refused to sign a letter expelling NUMSA from the union federation. Vavi says in a letter he wrote last week, he did mention that the decision taken by Cosatu central executive committee to expel Numsa from the trade union federation has "momentous implications". The letter was sent on Tuesd...

About 300 people including families, say that they will continue to sleep out in the open, and will not move from the land they occupied illegally, until the City of Tshwane addresses their housing needs. Tshwane Metro Police and security guards dismantled shacks illegally built on a vacant plot in Nellmapius, on wednesday. The community leader says that they waited for a representative from the c...

Asian markets increase momentum as they are sparked by positive sentiment from Japan delaying the sales tax, the question though should be for how long , Premier Xi Gets a 'C' in Report Card on China's Policy Program: Economy, What the economic changes have affected the family institution in the U.S

The remains of South Africans who died when a church building collapsed in Nigeria will be repatriated at the weekend. Minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe is in Nigeria to fast-track the return of the bodies, two months after the guest house at the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed. The church headed by preacher TB Joshua, collapsed on September 12, killing 116 people. These included 81...

COSATU says it remains committed to its decision taken at the weekend to expel its largest affiliate, NUMSA, from the labour federation. Briefing the media in Johannesburg yesterday COSATU's leadership said while booting out NUMSA was a painful decision and one that was not taken lightly, it was now important to work towards forging unity within affiliates and COSATU as a whole. It now says that N...

SA manufacturing data beats expectations, volatile rand on back of US dollar trade yesterday and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding reported more than $9 billion in sales on China's Singles' Day

Striking post office workers have been urged by parliament's portfolio committee on telecommunications and postal services, to return to work. This follows the voluntary resignation of the South African Post Office board. The strike by workers has now entered it's fourth month. The workers are demanding an eight percent pay rise, and the conversion of casual workers to permanent staff. The strike...

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

Union Federation COSATU is now facing a new challenge, with seven affiliates suspending their participation in the Federation with immediate effect, yesterday. This, after the Central Executive Committee decided to expel its largest affiliate NUMSA, on Friday last week. The ANC described that expulsion as disappointing and tragic, and a setback for COSATU, the tripartite alliance and other progres...

1. Asian market stocks go up as the Japanese Stocks looks strong 2. Abinomics lost ground on five economic fronts 3. Concern raised as Euro bond issued to Africa

Financial secrecy by multi-national companies helps strip Africa of about 50-billion US dollars each year. Prominent social activists and anti-corruption watchdogs, that include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Corruption Watch, and Transparency International, are jointly calling for the leaders of the Group of 20 biggest economies to stop that corruption. In an open letter to the leaders heading to Brisb...

Metal workers at the various car manufacturing plants in the Eastern Cape want NUMSA to fight for a return to the COSATU-fold. NUMSA has instructed its members to continue attending COSATU shop steward council meetings, despite its expulsion from the trade federation. Our reporter, Mzukisi Solani has more...

Numsa says they don't believe that they will get a fair hearing from today's meeting. NUMSA President, Andrew Chirwa says as the workers, they have a right to be in COSATU. Cosatu on tthe othe hands says the Metalworkers' union should not pre-empt the results of today's Central Executive meeting. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Both Numsa and Cosatu President Andrew Chirwa and S'dumo Dlamin...

On the Coal-Face feature today Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly looks at New technology has slashed the use of electricity at Glencore’s giant chrome beatification plant, New technology will next year unlock a ton of gold that cannot be mined conventionally and New technology is recovering gold from process waste that normally ends up on the trash heap...

Deputy Agriculture Minister, Bheki Cele says communities have a responsibility to make sure that criminals never have peace wherever they are. He was addressing Vosloorus residents, who packed the local community hall to discuss crime yesterday (Tuesday). This follows the murder of Bafana Bafana Captain, Senzo Meyiwa who was gunned down in the township over a week ago. The meeting, organised by th...

Nedlac constituencies to the Presidential Labour Relations Indaba, have reached an in-priciple agreement on a national minimu wage. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who presided over the Conference says a task team made up of representatives of business, government, labour and the community will work out a framwork for a final agreement by July next year. The central issue to be tackled is the mod...

Yesterday, Eskom has started rolling blackouts across the country, due to the loss of 1 800 Mega Watts at the Majuba power station. The power Utility has implemented rotational load shedding, to deal with damages that were caused by the collapse of its coal storage silo at the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga. Residents in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town have experienced power cuts. AM L...

NADIR THOKAN , ANALYST FROM 27 FOUR INVESTMENTS LOOKS AT: 1. Increase in volatility on the JSE over the last three months and what has caused this? 2. Central banks diverging monetary policy strategies with particular reference to the FED and bank of Japan 3. Finally ..Corporate governance at SA companies and the issues at HCI and PPC

The Panel: Rhulani Baloyi- SABC News Editor/ Dion Delport- Editor at Independent in KwaZulu-Natal & Janet Whitton- SABC Deputy Sports Editor

South Africans should brace themselves for yet another series of power cuts by Eskom. The power utility says in a statement the load shedding would start at 8 a.m. and run till 10 p.m. It says it has lost one-thousand-800 megawatts at the Majuba power station that was now operating at a reduced capacity of one-thousand-300 megawatt. Eskom spokesperson, Andrew Etzinger....

This month in our health slot we will be looking at Diabetes as the country highlights National Diabetes month. Professor Larry Distiller, Managing director and Principal Physician of the Centres for Diabetes ..

Over 55 million hectares of land in Africa have been "grabbed" since 2000, according to research presented at a conference earlier in the week. Dr Blessing Karumbidza, senior research associate at the Durban University of Technology, says more land had been "grabbed" in Africa between 2000 and 2012 than in the rest of the world combined. He made a presentation on behalf of Prof Robert Home from An...