The Weekend View

The South African Council of Churches has called on all pastors to belong to a regulatory body. This came out during a discussion the council held this week with 150 leaders of churches on various issue including the conduct of some pastors and so-called prophets who engage in strange practices. This comes in the wake of reports of some religious leaders who abuse their positions by telling their...

Today marks the beginning of Women's Month. Although the average woman now has more options and opportunities available to her than her mother or grandmother, total emancipation is a long way off. Almost 60 years since the historic women's march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in protest against the pass laws, women find themselves experiencing complex challenges. We spoke to Chartered Marketer...

The Banking Association South Africa is calling on government to ensure a holistic and balanced approach to legislating on the controversial expropriation bill. In a statement the council stated that this will help mitigate the unquantifiable risks of the provisions contained in the current version of the bill, to the banking sector. We spoke to Cas Coovadia, managing director of the banking counc...

The South African job market is under threat with the implementation of changes to section 198 of the Labour Relations Act, that requires employers to appoint temporary workers to permanent positions after 3 months. We spoke to Simon Colman, underwriting Executive at SHA Specialist Underwriters....

More than two hundred commuters were injured last night when a passenger train slammed into the back of another train in Booysens, south of Johannesburg. Search and rescue teams spent hours scouring the wreck of the trains to ensure that all the commuters were accounted for. More than one hundred emergency services personnel were deployed to assist the injured. We spoke to one of the first reporte...

For the past few years, SAfm has heeded the call to participate in community-building initiatives to celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day on the 18th of July. Madiba's call has inspired us to make a difference to the lives of those around us. It's our little attempt to address some social injustices facing thousands of people in our country. This year, we headed to the North-West province to...

Gidani CEO, Prof Bongani Khumalo speaks about the fight for the Lotto licence

Price Waterhouse Coopers's seventh edition of Executive Directors Remuneration and Practices says the focus on executive pay remains under intense scrutiny from unions, regulators, shareholders, remuneration committees and main boards.

Five Components of Emotional Intelligence; 1. Interpersonal skills 2. Intra-personal skills 3. Stress management 4. Adaptability and Flexibility 5. Attitude and mood

Motivational speaker Elsabe Manning talks to host of Weekend AM Live Elvis Preslin about living with more gratitude. Elsabe says we are too focused in the lack in our lives and live in gratitude.

Weekend AM Live host Elvis Preslin talks to Motivational speaker Elsabe Manning about living a life of abundance.

Elvis Presslin speaks to our correspondent who is in Athens at the moment, Jack Parrock and gets analysis from Non-Executive Director of Capital Property Fund, Iraj Aberdian

Listen to Senior Regional Adviser for Sub-Saharan Africa at the International Organization for Migration, Charlse Kwenin and Social Development Spokesperson Lumka Oliphant on the issue of child protection while travelling

There seems to be mixed reactions as the nation reacts to president Zuma's release of the report by the Farlham Commission on the Marikana tragedy. Independent labour analyst, Terry Bell gives his analysis...

Substance abuse in South Africa has the biggest impact on the country than ever before. According to the South African Police Services, 60-percent of crimes committed are due to substance abuse. Clinical psychologist, Nathan Rogerson; Conny Nxumalo, the Deputy Director General of Welfare Services at the Department of Social Development and actor and 2011 Survivor winner, Hykie Berg...

Dr Roelf Reyneke speaks to us about the issue of bullying in the country

Prof Raymond Parsons talks to Elvis Presslin about the Eskom tariff increase request

Retha Watson, the National Manager for trauma and suicide prevention from the SAPS Psychological Services, employee health and wellness talks to us about the impact the death of a police officer has on his/hers colleague

Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe and Oxfam's Sipho Mthathi speaking about the AU Summit currently underway in Sandton, Johannesburg

Listen to Numsa's general secretary Irvin Jim on and analysis with labour analyst Terry Bell

The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights of Communities has threatened to take municipalities to court if they do not reverse decisions to re use graves without tombstones. This after the eThekwini Municipality this week received numerous complaints from residents about strangers being buried on top of their loved ones without their consent....

The 31st of May is World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day and this year the focus is on stopping the trade of illicit tobacco products. The day aims to highlight some of the health risks associated with tobacco use and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. We spoke to Director of Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling Group, Peter Ucko...

Sepp Blatter has, as expected, been re-elected for a fifth term as president of world football body FIFA. The vote took place at the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich, after a turbulent 48 hours that saw a number of FIFA executives arrested on charges of bribery and racketeering. We spoke to soccer columnist with The New Age, Neil Collins....

South Africa's unemployment figures increased by 626-thousand, in the three months to March 2015. While the expanded rate of unemployment which, includes people who have given up looking for work, also increased to 36.1 percent. But how are graduates affected by this? We spoke to entrepreneur and founder of the RA House of Isis media house, Ntsako Mbhokota and Dr Iraj Aberdian, economist and CEO f...

Bullying in South African schools has tripled in the past year. A teachers' union says learners are becoming violent, and also carry weapons and drugs to school. The most recent case of bullying was reported in Gauteng last week. A grade 5 pupil was admitted to the ICU after he was choked by a grade 6 learner. We spoke to Director of Safety in Schools at the Department of Education, Doctor Charles...