The Weekend View

A twenty-year-old woman has appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on a charge of human trafficking. She was arrested for trying to sell her own child online for five thousand rand. Meanwhile...Johannesburg will be one of nine cities around the world to host a simultaneous walk to bring awareness to the international issue of human trafficking. The 'Walk For Freedom' follows internati...

Elvis Presslin speaks to Economics reporter, Francis Herd on the SABMiller - the global beer giant founded in South Africa - accepting "in principle" a new takeover bid from rival brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev.

With October been Transport Month, South Africans are being encouraged to find alternative means of transport. Last week Gauteng launched the Ecomobility initiative, while another alternative is carpooling. Transport month is used to raise awareness on the important role of transport in the economy and to encourage participation from civil society and business, including the provision of a safe an...

Elvis Presslin spoke to Presidential spokesperson, Bongani Majola and Kathleen Hardy, attorney representing 36 family's of Marikana killings in August 2012 on government's commitment to engage legal representatives of the claimants

Health minister, Aaron Motsoaledi and Dr Kim Faure on a study by the CDDEP on the overuse of antibiotics worldwide

The National Consumer Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into a number of businesses that the Reserve Bank suspects of being pyramid schemes. The commission says the nine initiatives popular travel club, WorldVentures and Instant Wealth Club are suspected of contravening the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). We took to the streets to ask ordinary South Africans what their understandi...

Teacher unions and the basic education department are at loggerheads over the Annual National Assessments, or ANA's. The department postponed the ANA's from this month to December; however SADTU - and other unions - are threatening to boycott them in December. COSATU says the ANA's do not add value to the South African system while the Democratic Alliance says its laid a complaint with the Human R...

Elvis Presslin spoke to National Consumer Commission spokesperson, Trevor Hattingh on a preliminary investigation into nine suspected pyramid schemes for suspected contraventions to the Consumer Protection Act

MSF or Doctors without borders' Borrie Le Grange talks about the situation of migrants trying to get into Europe and what MSF is doing to help.

On Sunday the 13th of September, the late Benedict Daswa will be beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in his home village of Mbahe in Limpopo. Beatification is a process where the church recognises a deceased person's entrance into Heaven, following which they are known as a blessed. Those who are beatifies are believed to have the capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in his o...

Several incidents, where victims suffer at the hands of their partners were reported this week. Just to mention a few...a woman appeared at the Alexander Magistrate court after fatally stabbing her husband and his lover and an ANCYL member also appeared in in court after he sjamboked his girl friend to death. This is happening as the trial of Sindisiwe Manqele charged with killing hip hop artist N...

North West Local Government MEC Collen Maine is the new ANC Youth League president. He was elected unopposed at the league's 25th national congress at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. Maine's contenders, National Executive Committee member Pule Mabe and the league's former deputy president Ronald Lamola failed to meet the required threshold. This after they were nominated from t...

The Department of Education has condemned a decision by the Congress of South African Students (Cosas), which has called for pupils to assault teachers who are still using corporal punishment. The department says that the call is irresponsible and unacceptable. The Education department urged Cosas members to report incidents of corporal punishment, than to take action. We spoke to Naseema COSAS Na...

Recession has been a buzz word this week, following the less than stellar economic growth figures released this week. According to Statistics South Africa, the seasonally adjusted real GDP at market prices for the second quarter of 2015 decreased by an annualised rate of 1 point 3 per cent compared with an increase of 1 point 3 per cent during the first quarter of 2015. This, along with recent rat...

The National Credit Regulator (NCR) has called on the National Consumer Tribunal to fine JDG Trading and JDG Micro Life for contravening the Consumer Protection Act through their credit insurance practices. The NCR recently found that the group, which includes retail stores Joshua Doore, Morkels and HifiCorp, has been charging pensioners for retrenchment cover and disabled consumers for disability...

The 31st of August is African Traditional Medicine Day which seeks to shine a light on the holistic discipline of traditional healing which involves the use of indigenous herbalism combined with aspects of African spirituality. In the year 2000, the 50th session of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa met in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso where Ministers of Health dopted re...

Packages and lives looking at the tragedy of Marikana on the 16th August 2012

As we mark the third anniversary of the Marikana killings at Lonmin mine in Rustenburg in the North West, a religious leader who tried to broker a deal between striking miners and Lonmin bosses in 2012 can vividly recall the nightmare that unfolded on the week leading up to that fateful day. Bishop Jo Seoka's attempts to resolve the Marikana protests failed. He heard the fatal shootings while on a...

A study by UNISA has shown that violent criminals believe they will get away with their first crime. On average, violent criminals will commit around one-hundred crimes before their first arrest. This could be as long as seven years after the start of their criminal career. We caught up with UNISA criminologist professor, Rudolph Zinn who says South Africa's low conviction rate for serious and vio...

Suicide is on the rise among young children, that's according to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group. This as 14-year-old Klara Gottert is laid to rest today after her body was found at the Northgate mall in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. The police are treating her death as a suicide. We spoke to clinical psychologist, Liane Lurie....

The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) has criticised the move to introduce Mandarin as a language on offer in public schools. The basic education department says that the language will be available optionally at the start of the new school year in 2016. We spoke to SADTU deputy general secretary, Nkosana Dolopi, senior researcher at the institute of global dialogue, Sausha Naidoo and...

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Dr Pierre Aycard from the Linguistic Section of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town says interaction between children in the city& use of Iscamtho gives life to a new mixed language...

The SA Human Rights Commission will be taking action against what it calls unconstitutional garnishee orders. The Commission was recently friends of the court in a class action case brought by the Stellenbosch University Legal Aid Clinic, on behalf of 12 farm workers, against various micro lenders. The Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of the farmers citing the debt collecting procedure used...

August is organ donor month and looked at the many successful stories of organ recipients and how they are helping dispel myths about organ donation