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The Gauteng Department of Education has extended school online registration period 12.08.2024 7:25

Guest: Steve mabona: The Gauteng Department of Education spokesperson

UWC recently participated in an international mission to study Pluto, whose atmosphere is expected to freeze as it moves farther from the Sun 12.08.2024 6:58

Guest: Professor Nico Orce: Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of the Western Cape

A multidisciplinary team comprising the Hawks, Public Order Police and its Tactical Response Team are investigating the discovery of yet another suspected illegal military training camp in Limpopo. 12.08.2024 6:11

Guest: Lethunya Mmroa:Hawks spokesperson Warrant Officer

Africa Update Sipho Mantula 12.08.2024 5:33

Delay in cancer treatments in Gauteng: we speak to an organization on what their perspective is and how they have tried to engage with the department and also speak to the feedback they are getting and the effectiveness of these engagements etc 12.08.2024 6:30

Guest: Salomé Meyer: Cancer Alliance

Cancer Treatment delay in Gauteng: Cancer sufferer Lydia Staats has attended two funerals in the past year — both of them for women who, like her, had been waiting for radiation treatment to prevent a recurrence of their breast cancer. 12.08.2024 5:36

Guest: Lydia Staats, cancer patient

Zelensky confirms Ukrainian troops are fighting inside Russian territory 12.08.2024 10:17

Guest: Roland Henwood - Political Scientist And Commentator At University of Pretoria

The ANC and Freedom Front Plus are in talks to remove the DA from power in councils across the Western Cape – in spite of an existing agreement between the DA and the FF Plus to work together. 12.08.2024 8:28

Guest: Adv Gert van Niekerk:VF Plus member in the Western Cape

A contractors' protest in Mamelodi turned violent, leading to vandalism of municipal offices. 12.08.2024 5:43

This after the City of Tshwane dropped 60% of waste contractors whose trucks did not meet new requirements. Guest: Jacqui Uys: Finance MMC, City of Tshwane

According to a Southern Africa Towards Inclusive Economic Development study released this year, a woman makes 78 cents for every rand a man earns and widens gender segregation in the labour market. 09.08.2024 14:29

As we commemorate National Womens Day, we have a conversation on the gender pay and closing the gap of this inequality. According to a Southern Africa Towards Inclusive Economic Development study released this year, a woman makes 78 cents for every rand a man earns and widens gender segregation in the labour market. This rise has major implications on how women can take care of their families, how...

ActionSA has already begun its work in Parliament to hold the Department of Home Affairs and law enforcement agencies accountable 09.08.2024 7:41

ActionSA has already begun its work in Parliament to hold the Department of Home Affairs and law enforcement agencies accountable to ensure the strict and uncompromising enforcement of our immigration laws and will continue to fight to protect our sovereignty and national sec

Miss South Africa contestant, Chidimma Adetshina has released a statement that she is withdrawing from the pageant ahead of the finale this weekend. 09.08.2024 4:36

Miss South Africa contestant, Chidimma Adetshina has released a statement that she is withdrawing from the pageant ahead of the finale this weekend. In her statement, she outlines that her withdrawal was for the safety and well-being of her family. Given the media scrutiny and government investigations on her citizenship status, we ask: what reputational damage has she gone through and how it may...

Science & Innovation Segment:Science & Innovation Segment: Ireland sets up a new bill to make social media companies pay for social media harm. 09.08.2024 6:21

Science & Innovation Segment : Science & Innovation Segment: Ireland sets up a new bill to make social media companies pay for social media harm. The nation’s new media regulator has outlined this new code of conduct to address cyberbullying and put pressure on social media platforms to act swiftly when it comes to reports of harmful social media content. To unpack the implications this ma...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS -Antiracism protesters gathered in Britain 09.08.2024 8:06

Thousands of police officers were mobilized across Britain yesterday amid fears of a new round of anti-immigrant riots, after far-right groups called for further protests. But at least as of early evening, large far-right demonstrations had not materialized, and only a handful of arrests had been made. In Liverpool, people banged drums, chanted “Fascists out!” and held signs that read “Love Not...

Africa Update(EXTENDED VERSION ) Sipho Mantula 09.08.2024 5:51

patriotic Alliance Deputy-President Kenny Kunene has filed an urgent court interdict against Miss SA to disqualify finalist Chidimma Adetshina from the pageant finale this weekend. 09.08.2024 15:15

The outspoken politician has also claimed that the party has been “vindicated” of their concerns about the young woman’s nationality. This, after the Department of Home Affairs released preliminary findings that Chidimma’s mother may have committed fraud and identity theft when registering her birth. Guest: Kenny Kunene - Patriotic alliance

We get an update on the clean-up operations after two retention dam walls collapsed and subsequently flooded communities in the Swartland District Municipality. 09.08.2024 4:00

We get an update on the clean-up operations after two retention dam walls collapsed and subsequently flooded communities in the Swartland District Municipality. To tell us more about the measures that will be put in place ahead of the heavy rainy expected this weekend, we are joined by… Guest: Heinrich Robertson - Spokesperson West Coast Disaster Management Centre

Business Rescue Practitioners for Hulletts have been granted leave of appeal for R526 million levies dispute with the Sugar Association of South Africa at the Supreme Court of Appeal. 09.08.2024 5:01

Business Rescue Practitioners for Hulletts have been granted leave of appeal for R526 million levies dispute with the Sugar Association of South Africa at the Supreme Court of Appeal. The outstanding levies are meant to be paid to safeguard fair pricing in the sugar industry, protect the livelihood of thousands of sugar growers in Mpumalanga and Kwa-Zulu Natal. Our next guest has written an opini...

Africa Update Sipho Mantula 08.08.2024 4:24

Are technology and empowered patient self-care the key to unlocking an effective NHI? 08.08.2024 3:37

The Gauteng High Court recently ruled that the National Health Act (the Act) cannot force doctors to register for a “certificate of need” meaning government cannot control where healthcare providers can practice. But hope is at hand – in the form of technology that will negate the dictatorial approach to healthcare. Dr. Mvuyisi Mzukwa, South African Medical Association (SAMA) Chairperson

Unions schools are places of earning Arrests after South African pastor storms school with machete 08.08.2024 5:40

. Guest: Basil Manuel Executive director of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa

PSIRA confirms that the Mpumalanga military camp disguised as a security training facility was illegal with unaccredited instructors using military ranks. Does more work need to be done by security regulators 08.08.2024 5:03

Guest:Sindisiwe Changuion Tapsosa spokesperson

Fact Sheet: Southern African Development Community (SADC) Public Service Commissions Forum 1. Chapter 13 of the National Development Plan highlights the critical interventions required to build a capable, ethical and developmental state that will play a t 08.08.2024 5:37

Guest: Somdoda Fikeni - Public Service Commission Chairperson

Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza confirmed that Miss SA hopeful Chidimma Adetshina qualified for citizenship, having been born in SA to a South African mother. 08.08.2024 6:13

According to Nzuza, South African citizenship can be obtained by birth, descent, or naturalisation. Guest: Ashraf Essop, Immigration Attorney

The quality of food in Gauteng schools has come into question after the Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng inspected several schools in the province. The party found that some schools were not receiving food deliveries. Where deliveries were made, the fo 08.08.2024 5:58

Guest:Sergio Isa Dos Santos DA shadow MEC for Education