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Former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela says the State Capture Commission of Inquiry could face some challenges due to the delay in its establishment. President Jacob Zuma announced last night that he had appointed a Commission which would be headed by Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo. Madonsela released the State of Capture report last October and the President has since mounted several court...

Ashburton Investments Portfolio Manager, Wayne Mccurrie looks at Trump tax policies effect on corporate profits, British American tobacco announcement on effect and Aspen pharmacare rumoured expose by vanguard .

Nadir Thokan of Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments looks at the strong support for emerging market bonds and why South Africa has benefited from this, Naspers latest investment in Swiggy and its plans there and the rumors circulating about Aspen and it's share price fall yesterday.

-Following her speech at the Golden Globe awards, it seems Americans want the talk show Queen Oprah Winfrey to run for Presidency. - Clothing Retailer H&M is under fire after running a product photo featuring a black boy in a hoodie with the words "coolest monkey in the jungle"

The MKMVA has thrown its full weight behind the new ANC leader as elected at the governing party's 54th congress last month. MKMVA had publicly declared its support for former AU commission chairperson Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on a ticket that the party is ready for a female leader. However deputy party president at the time Cyril Ramaphosa emerged victorious. Two factions created by contestation...

ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa has directed two factions in the KwaZulu-Natal to set aside their differences and work together for the sake of unity in the organisation. Ramaphosa was speaking at the grave sites of both the late ANC President, Dr. John Langalibalele Dube at Ohlange outside Durban and of Inkosi Albert Luthuli at Groutville north of Durban. Ramaphosa referred to Saturday's incident w...

Ashburton Investments Portfolio Manager, Wayne Mccurrie looks at the withdrawal of central bank quantative, world economic cycle recovery is long in the tooth and World inflation - the true danger to markets.

Five people have been arrested for failing to pay for services from the Johannesburg municipality. This follows a revenue collection blitz led by city mayor, Herman Mashaba. The city is owed just under one-billion rand for water and electricity. There are about 2 000 businesses which have also defaulted. We speak to Johannesburg executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba.

Nadir Thokan from Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments looks at US jobs numbers for December, the Naspers problem on the JSE and just how serious the debt problem at Eskom is.

Reports of the eminent arrest of the sons of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe are picking up steam. The reports first surfaced through an independent Zimbabwean newspaper citing corruption and illegal gold trading as some of the allegations levelled against the duo. This comes as current President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government embarks on a major corruption crackdown, which has already c...

The Tshwane University of Technology has given the assurance that it has put measures in place to deal with any eventualities. It says although it has places in some fields of study, it will not allow any walk-in application on its campuses. The university says students who wants to apply to study should do so online. The EFF has urged prospective students to turn up at higher institutions of thei...

-Unisa has announced that some students can study for free in 2018. - Zimbabwe Cricket announced that the National Team Bowling Coach, Makhaya Ntini has tendered his resignation. -Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey takes home 2018 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy at Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile's funeral on the 16th. President Jacob Zuma has accorded him a special official funeral. In New York City on Saturday, friends and scholars of the late "Prof" Kgositsile gathered to commemorate his life through poetry. The event came as a last-minute memorial on the sidelines of a major literary conference....

The family of a 14 year old boy who is still in hospital following a horrific train crash on Thursday says they are happy that all family members who were on the train are alive. Six members of the same family boarded the train from Theunissen town in the Free State. The Shosholoza Meyl train was travelling from Port Elizabeth to Gauteng when it collided with a truck at a level crossing between He...

With just over a week before the start of the new school year on the 17th, 31-thousand Grade One and Eight applicants are yet to be placed in Gauteng schools. They include 14-thousand late applicants from a group of 22-thousand. The other 17-thousand applied on time, but have not accepted placement offers at their second or third choices because their first choice schools were full. Gauteng Educat...

The ANC has turned 106 years old today and its president Cyril Ramaphosa together with other five officials will pay tribute to four former party presidents in KwaZulu-Natal later this morning. They include Josiah Gumede, Pixley Seme, Albert Luthuli and the party's founding president Langalibalele Dube. Last week the party's national chairperson Gwede Mantashe visited the grave of the longest serv...

Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments' Nadir Thokan looks at how the markets looking in the first few days of the new year, where to for Steinhoff now, what could happen to the JSE if foreign flows reverse and highlights from US jobs numbers that came out on Friday.

Ashburton Investments Portfolio Manager, Wayne Mccurrie looks at South African banks and whether the rally continue given the surge since ANC election, latest steinhoff disclosures about liquidity and time period of accounting fraud and are Global economic conditions still supportive of commodity shares.

Nontombi Gwam, the mother of a three year-old girl, Latoya, who died allegedly at Pastor Mboro's church last week is calling on the city of Ekurhuleni and government for assistance with travel costs to the Eastern Cape where the little girl is going to be laid to rest. The mother says she feel like she has been failed by both the police and the health department. She maintains that if there was no...

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will announce the 2017 matric results in Auckland Park, Johannesburg on Thursday evening. The previous year's overall pass rate stood at 72-point-five percent. That was a one-point-eight percent improvement from 2015's 70-point-seven percent. In recent years, matric exams have been marred by incidents of paper leaks and group copying, however the 2017 exams...

National Poet Laureate and struggle icon, Professor Keorapetse Kgosietsile has died at the age 79. Professor Kgosietsile had been admitted to hospital shortly before the New Year and passed away around midday on Wednesday for complications related to blood circulation. Benjamin Moshatama spoke his fellow writer and close friend, Mandla Langa...

The Bushbuckridge Municipality says they have consolidated affected households following appeals for help from thousands of people whose properties were destroyed by hailstorms that hit parts of Mpumalanga on New Year's eve. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to Spokesperson for the Municipality, Aubrey Mnisi...

The United Nations Children's Agency, UNICEF, approximates that 48,000 babies will be born in the Eastern and Southern Africa region today, on New Year's Day, but estimates that close to 3000 children around the world will die within the first 24 hours. UNICEF says it's New Year resolution is to help give every child more than an hour, more than a day, more than a month - of survival.. For more Be...

Today will be one of the busiest days on the KZN coastline. Tens of thousands of people will this afternoon descend on the beaches around Durban as they celebrate the New Year. Benjamin Moshatama spoke to eThekwini Municipality's Festive Season Committee chair, MALCOLM CANHAM

Hundreds of families in Gauteng have been affected after a storm ripped through parts of the province at the weekend. Two people died and dozens of homes and shacks were damaged - mainly in Johannesburg and on the West Rand. Part of Leratong Hospital on the West Rand was also damaged. The Gauteng government has erected tents in the worst-affected areas. Meanwhile relief organisation Gift of the Gi...