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Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa Chief Scientist, Dr Fernando Camilo says MeerKAT’s first test image proves that the South African project is on the right track and we are going to end up with a fantastic telescope.

Commemorating the fallen heroes of 1976 former Azanian People Organisation AZAPO President, Professor Itumeleng Mosala says Tsietsi Mashinini was the exact product that existed to lead the youth movement during apartheid regime.

The elections will go ahead on the third of August despite the Constitutional Court's ruling that the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) did not capture the voter's addresses correctly on the voter's roll.

Preeclampsia is characterised by high blood, Protean in urine which can cause abnormal pregnancy.

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The court has ruled that the IEC’s failure to record all available voter addresses on the voter's roll is inconsistent with its rule of law obligations and is invalid. It has however suspended the invalidity order giving the IEC until June 2018 to furnish addresses for the voter's roll except in the case of Tlokwe where discrepancies must be corrected in time for the next by-elections. This allows...

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Selected news and current affairs clips from SABC radio and digital journalists, used on the SABC News website (www.sabcnews.com).

Selected news and current affairs clips from SABC radio and digital journalists, used on the SABC News website (www.sabcnews.com).

Treatment and Action Campaign’s Community Advocate Tshweu Mosedi says peer pressure is another issue that leads to young people contracting the virus.

Director Higher Education HIV/AIDS Programme (HEAIDS) Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia says young people between the ages of 15- 24 remain at high risk of contracting HIV/Aids.

The Basic Education Department says there is not much that it can do to ensure that schooling resumes in Vuwani, Limpopo.

South African Human Rights Commission is hosting a three-day hearing on the impact of violent protests in Vuwai on education.

The Basic Education Department says there is not much that it can do to ensure that schooling resumes in Vuwani, Limpopo.

The IEC in the North West says 40% of candidates of the 5 000 submissions for the registration for the forthcoming municipal elections did not meet the required regulations.

An initiative to motivate young people to take part in the democratic process, has engaged with youth at Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo. This town's municipality was recently put under administration, due to years of alleged mismanagement. The NGO Livity Africa's #2X, or Take your Hashtag to the Polls, roadshow, has been travelling throughout the country, ahead of the August Local Government Elect...

The Correctional Services Department says its rehabilitation programme for young offenders is yielding positive results. With Youth Day approaching, the spotlight is on young people who have committed crimes and gone to prison for it, but have since managed to turn their lives around. Our reporter, Sagree Chetty, recently visited the Mossel Bay Corrections Centre in the Southern Cape to speak to a...

Police are not saying much at this early stage of the investigation.

The SABC’s main news website www.sabc.co.za/news together with several of it’s radio station websites including 5FM and SAFM have been taken down. A group calling itself Anonymous Africa has claimed responsibility. SABC spokesperson, Kaizer Kganyago says the public broadcaster views this in a very serious light.

The premier's spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo says the team will report back to Masualle after it has concluded its work.

Listen to Cosatu Provincial Secretary, Fidel Mlombo saying they will march to the mine on Sunday.

Former Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor, Bicks Ndoni says the ANC will never be unseated from the Nelson Mandela Bay.

In the midst of the drought gripping large parts of the country, a 16-year old girl from George in the Southern Cape is doing her bit to save what is left of this precious resource. Abigail Murphy from Outeniqua High School conducted research in her neighbourhood, which identified cigarette butts as a silent water pollutant. She is using Youth Month to launch a campaign to educate the public about...

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Lily Mine's Business Rescue Practitioner, Rob Devereux says their priority is to open the new shaft and then they will be able to retrieve the container.