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President of the Communication Workers Union, Clyde Mervin has accused the interim SABC board of accepting 650 million rands in payments despite the public broadcaster's financial troubles we get reaction from SABC board member, Mathatha Tsedu

Wage negotiations between the SABC and its unions are expected to commence today. This follows the offer of four-point-five percent salary increase made by the public broadcaster to its staff. The SABC is running against the clock to reach a settlement as workers have threatened to go on strike on Thursday just ahead of the much anticipated ANC elective conference kicking off at the weekend. we sp...

The South African Post Office (Sapo) will now be the new distributor of social grants. This follows an agreement between the Post Office and SASSA announced by the Minister in the Presidency, responsible for Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation, Jeff Radebe. This follows the order by the constitutional court that SASSA and the Social Development Department must find an alternative service provider...

Telecommunications and Postal Services Minister, Siyabonga Cwele, has moved to reassure social grants beneficiaries that the transition from CPS to the South African Post Office will be smooth. Yesterday, the Inter-Ministerial Committee on social grants announced that SASSA and the Post Office had signed an agreement which would see the Post Office taking over the grants distribution from April th...

Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asian Markets opening the week higher following a positive close on Wall Street, few Central Banks expected to hold their Policy Meetings and Steinhoff on the Spot Light last WEEK. EOH Shares have also come under immense pressure falling by 45% on Thursday.

-ANCWL President Bathabile Dlamini has reacted to Cyril Ramaphosa's comments on the Jacob Zuma's rape accuser, Khwezi. -University of cape Town Student Nkosinathi Nkomo who created a water-purification system dies. -The Hawks have released a statement saying found no evidence of the so-called zombie drug flakka being manufactured, sold or consumed in South Africa - R kelly's Atlanta home robbed.

Joining us for the last time we Sakina Kamwendo talks Eskom, corruption, Steinhoff, nuclear power with ETF Strategist & Advisor, Nerina Visser whose daughter says she is "exhaustipated"

There has been widespread condemnation from various business sectors and unions in the wake of international retailer Steinhoff revelations of accounting irregularities. Many business groups are calling for business organisations to distance themselves from corrupt companies. Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) says it is disappointed and disgruntled by Steinhoff's recent allegations. It says...

The ANC is proposing to establish what it calls an Electoral Revolutionary Council, to better screen it's members who want to occupy top leadership roles. This is contained in the ruling party's policy documents on organisational renewal, which will further be discussed at the National Conference in Nasrec next week. ANC President Jacob Zuma's term will come to an end, as the party gears up to ele...

Suspended head of the Gauteng Health Department, Dr Barney Selebano, has given contradicting answers on whether Premier David Makhura knew about the transfer of patients to NGOs. Selebano also said he will not resign over the bungled Esidimeni relocations, which resulted in the deaths of 143 mentally ill-patients. He maintaines that the decision to terminate the Life Esidimeni contract was a cost-...

Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lenstoane looks at the Asian Pacific Region, the big Sell Off on Steinhoff, a 66% drop in one day and business confidence in South Africa's economy improving slightly.

Former Acting National Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Khomotso Phahlane is being implicated in allegedly fabricating a case against IPID Boss, Robert McBride. This follows a raid by Police watchdog, Independent Police Investigative Directorate - IPID - at Phalane's properties and those of his alleged accomplices. Phahlane was suspended in June after he was accused of fraud and corruption...

COSATU in KwaZulu-Natal has vowed to curb the ill-treatment of workers at Durban factories following an exposé by the SABC of female workers being stripped naked on suspicions of theft when they knock off duty. At least two companies have admitted to the practice of strip searching while the labour department has also found that workers in these factories are exploited and under paid. We speak to...

Jerusalem is a final status issue and must be resolved through direct negotiations between the two parties. That was the view expressed by the United Nations Secretary General just moments after President Donald Trump's announcement that he was moving the United States Embassy to Jerusalem. Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has placed it in opposition to the internatio...

Suspended head of the Gauteng Health Department Dr Barney Selebano has told the Life Esidimeni hearings in Johannesburg that he was scared to stand up to then MEC Qedani Mahlangu. Selebano says he agreed with Chief Director Molefi Mosenogi that the move could have dire consequences if carrid out hurriedly. Mosenogi led the project to transfer the mentally-ill patients to ill-eqqipped and unlicense...

EFT Strategist, Nerina Visser looks at expectation that tax revenues will improve without having to increase tax rates and •Corporate governance – or rather the lack thereof – becoming an alarming common thread of the stories that dominate our news headlines eg: whether it’s Eskom, or Naspers, or the Black Business Council or most recently, Steinhoff.

-EFF Spokesperson, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi graduates with a doctorate in political studies from Wits University - UDM Leader General Bantu Holomisa gives the Keynote address at the #RememberingMandela event. -

Road Traffic Management Cooperation CEO, Advocate Makhosini Msibi has committed to ensuring that law enforcement officers work throughout the night in order to tackle transgressions on the road that occur after sunset. Msibi together with transport minister, Joe Maswanganyi yesterday launched the holiday road safety campaign in Limpopo where the N1 has experienced a high number of accidents. In Ga...

The City of Cape Town Executive Mayor, Patricia de Lille wants Capetonians to pay a drought charge. This, she says, is to ensure that there is sufficient money available to spend on emergency water augmentation projects, when the need arise.

Acting Eskom board Chairperson Zethembe Khoza has faced a barrage of questions at the parliamentary inquiry about his role in the company. Evidence leader Ntuthuzelo Vanara spent more than three hours grilling Khoza on various issues. The company's Executive Support Manager Anton Minnaar was questioned on the pension payout to former CEO Brian Molefe and whether his contract was permanent or fixed...

Suspended Head of Gauteng Health Department Dr Barney Selebano says the decision to terminate the long-standing contract with Life Esidimeni was taken to save costs due to pressure from the national treasury. He says it was not done with any malicious intent. He admitted however admitted that there was no due diligence before the patients were moved to I'll-equipped NGOs. Selebano is being cross-e...

The ANC says it will welcome any probe into whether the pay-channel MULTICHOICE engaged in corrupt and unethical conduct to influence government policy over digital migration. This follows damning revelations that MULTICHOICE executives sought to pay the SABC 100 million rand and the GUPTA owned TV network ANN7 allegedly in exchange for its political influence over government's position on set-top...

ETF Strategist Nerina Visser looks at the third quarter GDP data released yesterday and when to expect decision by Nersa on their electricity tariff application.

Ghana's president, Nana Akufo-Addo has shocked his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron by calling for Africa to end its dependency on aid from the West. Macron is on an official visit at the Ghana's Presidential palace in the capital of Accra when Akufo-Addo told members of the media that Africa no longer continue to make policies on the basis of whatever support that the western world or France,...

Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane has found that the Eastern Cape provincial government improperly redirected about 300 million rand of public funds to pay for the funeral of former president Nelson Mandela. She found that some of the funds were meant for the provision of running water, electricity sanitation, ablution facilities, replacement of mud-schools and refurbishing hospitals. Mandela d...