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City of Tshwane Members of the Mayoral Committee says it will conduct an inspection tour of the Rooiwal sewage plant, north of Pretoria, later this week in an effort to deal with the contaminated water supply. Hammanskraal residents protested last week against the failure by of the Tshwane Metro to respond to the problem. Metro authorities recently had to close the Rooiwal sewage plant when it ove...

The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa says the counterfeit goods market has become a trillion dollar industry across G20 countries. The organisation was commenting after the arrest of six people in the Northern Cape last week on charges relating to producing fake food. The suspects were allegedly producing well-known counterfeit branded household and food items worth about R77 million. Police...

Former First Lady, Graça Machel has challenged young people to redesign systems inherited from the colonial times. Machel was speaking at the Mandela Centenary Dialogue in Johannesburg. This is among multiple events to mark the 100th anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela's birth on Wednesday. Machel says young people should shape their own future

The Mayor of the Sol Plaatjie Municipality in Kimberely in the Northern Cape and the province's Premier are yet to meet to discuss issues raised by protesting residents who are accusing the Municipal Manager and the Chief Financial Officer of corruption. The agrrieved community is now also calling for the Mayor Mangaliso Matika's head. The protests started last week and since then nearly 200 peopl...

The High Court in Pretoria has ruled that UDM leader, Bantu Holomisa should desist from making or repeating allegations of corruption at the Public Investment Corporation against a major BEE investment firm and prominent business figures. Holomisa, through an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the scope of the state capture investigation to be widened to include alleged corrup...

Conquering a famed summit is on many people's bucket lists. For some, it's all about the physical and mental challenge. For others, it's for personal reasons and causes. Gillian Pillay and Thabo Madilola, who are summiting Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania again this weekend, have spoken to Mrs South Africa, Nicole Capper, about her trials and tribulations. Capper was airlifted from Mount Everest in N...

The largest radio telescope in the southern hemisphere has been launched in the Northern Cape today. The 4.4 billion telescope will enable scientists to have a clearer view and deeper understanding of the Milky Way Galaxies. This instrument will later form part of the Square Kilometre Array, which will be the largest scientific instrument ever. Deputy President David Mabuza says this will change t...

Business leadership South Africa has dismissed claims by Viceroy Research that a damning report by Intellidex into short-selling in South Africa, was sponsored by a third party. Short selling is defined as the sale of an asset in the belief that the asset's price will decline. This enables it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit. Viceroy has over the past year published negative rep...

SA Express is readying itself for take-off. In its statement, the airline, says the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has reinstated its Aircraft Maintenance Organisation (AMO) certification. In May, the CAA announced the suspension of the company's operating licence. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SA express' Acting CEO Matsietsi Mokholo.

Kimberley in the Nothern Cape is still under under a tota shutdown this afternoon. Hundreds of residents from surrounding areas have taken to the streets again today to protest against alleged corruption on the part of the Sol Plaatjie Municipality's Chief Financial Officer and the Municipal Manager. They are accused of irregularly granting a 1.2 million rand tender to a PR company. Some people we...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says meeting his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, has opened up a new page of improved relations between the two countries. Frosty relations between South Africa and Nigeria have been blamed for lack of full implementation of more than 30 bilateral agreements signed between the two countries. President Ramaphosa undertook a one-day working trip to Abuja to rekindle...

Former president, Kgalema Motlanthe says those opposed to the expropriation of land without compensation are driven by their class interests. Montlanthe was speaking on our sister programme, Morning Live where he also addressed criticisms labelled against him and the recommendations made by the high-level panel on land reform. Meanwhile, IFP leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, also weighed in on the deb...

Net1, which is the parent company of Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), has denied that it is doing all it can to ensure that it continues to benefit from the distribution of social grants. CEO Herman Kotze says they are in fact looking forward to cutting ties with SASSA in September this year, when the contract comes to an end. This was in response to statements made by the Inter-ministerial Committe...

There is a strong police presence in the Kimberley CBD as residents protest against two Sol Plaatjie Municipality employees. Chief Financial Officer Lydia Mahloko and Municipal Manager Goolam Akhawaray, are accused of paying a communications company 1.2 million rand for a campaign that was notifying residents that tariff hikes would be implemented this month. Violence broke out earlier and police...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has applauded the Nigerian government for consulting widely before signing the African Continental Free Trade Agreement. Currently, 49 countries including South Africa have signed the agreement which seeks to allow the free movement of goods and people across the continent. It was adopted at the recent African Union Summit. This is seen as an important step to realise reg...

One of the founding members and minority shareholder of the VBS, Mr Madambi Muvhulawa say they are going to court to challenge what they call "A likely intention" to shut the mutual bank down. This after the South African Reserve Bank announced that it will prioritise the bank's retail depositors as the Venda-based mutual bank faces an uncertain future. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Madambi Muvhulawa.

One of the people injured in yesterday's plane crash at Kameeldrift outside Pretoria has died in hospital. This brings to two the number of deceased. The Civil Aviation Authority is in the meantime continuing with investigations into the crash. The passengers are said to be foreigners from Australia and the Netherlands. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Peter Mashaba who is Executive: Accident and Inident...

An SABC team which will take part in the Trek-4-Mandela Centenary Climb this weekend at Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, got a heart warming surprise when they received a R10 000 donation from Nedbank live on SAfm this afternoon. The money will help to buy sanitary pads for girls who have no financial means to do so. Hundreds of girls across the country miss school because they have no sanitary wear...

The General Council of the Bar which registers advocates in the country, is meeting this weekend in order to thoroughly consider yesterday's court ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal. The court ruled that the suspended Deputy National Director of Public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba, and National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) specialised commercial crimes head Lawrence Mrwebi, not be struck of the ro...

Banks will no longer be able to throw their hands up in the air on the issue of illegal debit orders. Consumers have been up in arms over the years regarding deductions made from their accounts without authorisation. These transactions have been going undetected because banks only notify their clients if a payment of more than R100 is made. A new system known as DebiCheck will compel the banks to...

Spend money on a humble meal or sanitary pads? That's the dilemma confronting many poverty-stricken homes in the country and on the continent. More often than not, the grumbling stomach wins. The SABC's Gillian Pillay and Thabo Madilola have been to the village of Luphisi in Mpumalanga to retrace the steps of the Trek4Mandela campaign that's changing young lives.

Thousands of men and some women have embarked on a 100 Men March to the Union Building in Pretoria, to raise awareness about violence against women and children. Several Ministers, representatives of SARS, the police, the Tshwane Metro Police, NGOs and government departments have taken part. The campaign seeks to get more men involved in the fight against this scourge. Here are some of the people...

The Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed the counter appeal by the General Council of the Bar of SA (GCB) and overturned a high court ruling that called for Deputy National Director of Public Prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba and Special Director of Public Prosecutions Lawrence Mrwebi to be struck off the roll of advocates. Jiba and Mrwebi were struck off the roll on September 15, 2016, by Judge Francis...

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Allegations continue to mount against one of South Africa's largest institutions for mentally and physically challenged people. Durban Coastal and Mental Health was earlier implicated in a rape case and claims of exploiting patients. It has now emerged that the mental institution uses some mental patients as security guards. Nonjabulo Mntungwa reports