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ANC veteran and former parliamentarian Ben Turok has passed away at the age of 92 this morning. His family has just confirmed the news. We speak to Turok's son, Professor Ivan Turok

Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has dissolved Railway Agency Prasa's board. Announcing his decision Mbalula said he has put the institution under administration. He has announced Bongisizwe Mpondo as the administrator for 12 months. We speak to Commentator, Khaya Sithole

The Gauteng provincial government says they will be placing the City of Tshwane under administration. This was announced today by MEC for Human Settlements and CoGTA Lebogang Maile in Johannesburg earlier today. Maile says among the reasons for placing the City under administration is as a result of it's frequency of unauthorized and irregular expenditure as per the Auditor General's report as wel...

Eskom has JUST announced stage four load-shedding from two o clock, this afternoon. Earlier this morning it had announced that stage two load-shedding will continue today and tomorrow from nine-AM to six-PM but things have just suddenly gotten worse. In a statement, the power utility says this is due to a shortage of capacity and a highly constrained system. Power cuts began yesterday, but were su...

TV reporter, Gillian Pillay has been following a number of stories as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence- One story is of a horrific ordeal of a young Soweto minor who was violated multiple times by three different perpetrators. The second is two Nyaope men in their twenties. The first one had numerous accusations levelled against him relating to violating minor girls in...

The community of Olifantshoek village outside Giyani in Limpopo is still shocked after a 67 year old father was chopped to death allegedly by his 31 year old daughter and her 15 year old son. The suspects who has since been arrested allegedly killed him for his social grant money. Rudzani Tshivhase reports....

President Cyril Ramaphosa has instructed the government to urgently implement the process of putting the struggling South African Airways (SAA) under business rescue. The airline, suffered a crippling strike last month and was forced to cancel a number of flights and this pushed it to the brink of collapse. In a statement, the minister of Public Enterprises, Pravin Grodhan says placing the airline...

Debates on the EFF's next leadership are raging within the party although all seems calm to the public eye. The party will hold its second National People's Assembly in Nasrec, Soweto from the 13th to the 16th of December to elect new leadership and discuss policy. Busi Chimombe spoke to the EFF's Commander In Chief Julius Malema in the run-up to the NPA....

Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo says negotiations are under way with other parties to form a new executive of the City. Makhubo was speaking during a media briefing in Johannesburg this morning where he outlined his vision for the City. He was elected Joburg mayor yesterday after winning by 137 votes. Makhubo beat the DA's Funzela Ngobeni who got 101 votes and the EFF's Musa Novela who scored 30...

Cricket South Africa president Chris Nenzani has called a news conference for 6 o'clock this evening, in the wake of continued criticism of it's handling of the media. CSA revoked the accreditations of five journalists on Sunday, a move they admit was in response to those journalists writing stories critical of the administration. CSA has since re-instated the five affected writers, and CSA CEO Th...

Fritz Joubert's friend has described him assomebody who always wanted to be right and did not handle confrontations very well. Forty year-old Anele Hoyana succumbed to injuries inflicted allegedly by Joubert using a rifle in a video that went viral on social media. Joubert was later killed by a police officer during a scuffle following Hoyana's murder. Joubert's friend Zwelihle Mathe who was also...

Eskom has announced that it will suspend the switching off of electricity in three municipalities in the Free State for now. This follows a meeting on Thursday involving local government department, Eskom and representatives from three municipalities. The power utility announced on Monday saying it will cut power due to breach in payments. Still on our focus on Mafube Local Municipality- We spoke...

The Sebokeng community, on Gauteng's Vaal Rand, have been left in shock following the murder of a mother and her daughter. A 22-year-old man allegedly killed his mother, his four-year-old sister and injured his two siblings by stabbing them in Zone 13 Sebokeng in the early hours of this morning. The suspect has been arrested and two cases of murder and two of attempted murder have been opened. We...

Soweto ANC councillor Mpho Sesedinyane believes a proposal for a R150 monthly flat rate for electricity could be a starting point to address the country's non-payment woes. The flat-rate proposal was the brainchild of the South African National Civic Organisation - a non-political organisation which advocates on behalf of communities in engagements with government and other service providers. Sowe...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched government's annual campaign of 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children at the Witpoort Police Station in Lephalale, Limpopo. Ramaphosa says there is no place for men who abuse women and children in this society...

Former Gauteng Housing MEC Nomvula Mokonyane says there was no 1.3 billion rand allocated for the Alexandra Urban Renewal Project. She says although there was a business plan which costed the project at this amount, however no such money was set aside. Mokonyane was testifying at the hearings focusing on Alexandra township led by the Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Public Protector i...

INTRO: Police have destroyed a massive arms cache and dagga laboratory in Wierda Park in Centurion, Pretoria. Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi and National Commissioner of Police Khehla Sitole briefed the media about the discovery of the arms and drugs. Forensic experts with sniffer dogs raided a private property following a tip off about drugs being manufactured in the house. A couple believed to be th...

The controversy around the appointment of the new Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has spilt over to Parliament. EFF MP Nazier Paulsen blames Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan- accusing him of being anti transformation. Paulsen was ruled out of order for not bringing a substantive motion for the allegations against Gordhan. He was kicked out of the National Assembly after he refused to withdraw....

South African raised politician and former British Labour MP, Lord Peter Hain has told the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Johannesburg that international companies have assisted individuals to loot billions of rands from South Africa. Hain, a former anti-apartheid activist, has been at the helm of having international companies - alleged to be involved in state capture - investigated...

South African Airways says it's considering various options presented by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to resolve the ongoing strike at the company. SAA management and striking unions met under CCMA mediation over the weekend to end the crippling wage strike. Briefing the media at its headquarters in Kempton Park, the airline assured passengers of its commitment...

Eskom has warned South Africans that the national electricity grid is severely constrained due to the unexpected loss of power generation units. Eskom stated that load-shedding is not expected, but it may be implemented at short notice in the event of additional units being unexpectedly lost. We spoke to Eskom's COO Jan Oberholzer

Head of AfriForum's Private Prosecution Unit, Advocate Gerrie Nel has been appointed as the Meyiwa family's advocate in the murder investigation into the death of former goalkeeper and captain of Bafana Bafana, Senzo Meyiwa. AfriForum says they took the case as it's their duty to prevent the criminal justice system from collapsing. Meyiwa was shot and killed in a house in Vosloorus five years ago...

Herman Mashaba has announced his resignation as the Mayor of Johannesburg - and as a member of the Democratic Alliance. It follows the election of Helen Zille as the party's Federal Council Chairperson yesterday. Mashaba has previously indicated that he would call it quits, should - what he calls - the 'right wing aligned DA faction' win. He took office as the Johannesburg Mayor in 2016. Speaking...

Convicted child rapist Nicholas Ninow has told the North Gauteng High Court that he was 13 when he started using drugs and that he was on anti-depression medication his whole life. Ninow is testifying - today as the court begins with pre-sentencing proceedings. Ninow was found guilty of raping a seven-year old girl in the toilet cubicle at a Dros Restaurant in Pretoria in September last year. The...

Eskom has announced that it will be to implementing stage two rotational load-shedding from 09:00 until 23:00. The power utility says this is in order to protect the power system from a total collapse. In a statement, Eskom says the power supply constraint is caused by five generating units that are unavailable due to boiler tube leaks among other things. We spoke to energy expert Ted Blom and DA...