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Former President Thabo Mbeki has lambasted the ANC National Executive Committee for choosing not to attend the ANC Stalwarts and Veterans Consultative Conference. Mbeki was speaking at the Constitutional Hill in Johannesburg on the final day of the three day conference. The conference was called on by the stalwarts for more than a year, in order to try and address and resolve the crisis within the...

Nadir Thokan of 27Four Investment Managers looks at the scale of the tech rally this year and the investment thesis for Tiger Brands and the scale of negative yielding debt globally.

The SABC board has acussed Rachel Kalidass, who resigned as a board member yesterday, of leaking confidential information. The board addressed the media in Auckland Park yesterday evening about the allegations contained in Kalidass's resignation letter. We speak to Khanyisile Kweyamaa a member of the SABC Board.

The SADC Troika on Politics, Defence and Security has called for an urgent meeting of all SADC regional leaders to discuss the deepening political crisis in Zimbabwe. This follows the seemingly bloodless coup after the army announced that it is targeting what it calls criminals around President Robert Mugabe. President Jacob Zuma who is also the SADC chair arrived in Botswana last night for a Bi-N...

Negotiations are reported to be continuing over the future of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe who is under house arrest. Some reports say progress is being made towards a deal for him to resign. But Mugabe is said to be demanding guarantees and a dignified exit. Pictures have been released of Mugabe at the state house with the South Africa delegation and the man who had him detained, the head o...

Head of Financial Markets at ETM Analytics, Jana van Deventer looks at Oil markets retreating recently, Wholesale trade sales released yesterday and Bloomberg releasing its November Economic Survey.

Parliament's Public Enterprises Committee has sought to push back against what it says are Minister Lynne Brown's attempts to intimidate it. The committee, which is conducting an inquiry into Eskom, rejected Brown's letter in which she complains about how it is doing its work. The committee also heard evidence from a partner of management consulting firm McKinsey about that company's role in Eskom...

There has been mixed reaction from some political parties in Parliament to the military intervention in Zimbabwe. The EFF supports what is calls a peaceful military intervention. The African People's Convention and the Freedom Front-Plus have also welcomed the intervention, while the DA wants Mugabe to resign. Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent reports...

It was a shock outcome and upset for South Africa, after France was named as host of the 2023 Rugby World Cup after a meeting of the World Rugby Council in London. South Africa had been named the clear leader after an exhaustive independent evaluation process, however the country lost to its European counterparts after two rounds of voting. Our correspondent Catherine Drew was there.

A battle is looming involving lawyers representing Winnie Madikizela Mandela and executors of late president Nelson Mandela's will. Madikizela-Mandela has approached the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to overturn a 2016 decision by the Mthatha High Court, which dismissed her application to acquire Madiba's home at Qunu in the Eastern Cape. Thabiso Radebe reports...

A battle is looming involving lawyers representing Winnie Madikizela Mandela and executors of late president Nelson Mandela's will. Madikizela-Mandela has approached the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein to overturn a 2016 decision by the Mthatha High Court, which dismissed her application to acquire Madiba's home at Qunu in the Eastern Cape. Thabiso Radebe reports...

The SABC has reliably learnt that Zimbabwe is likely to have a transitional government after the army takeover. A deal has been proposed that dismissed former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa should lead a transitional government that will be constituted of stakeholders from other political parties. President Robert Mugabe has been given an opportunity to negotiate an exit that includes state pro...

Lehumo Investmets CEO, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asian shares trading firmer despite a weaker close on Wall Street and Naspers hits new record on Tencent’s blowout quarter

Head of Financial Markets at ETM Analytics, Jana van Deventer looks at Retail sales data for September coming in stronger than expected yesterday and How Eskom Inquiry has impacted on South African consumers?

A day after issuing a stern warning to President Robert Mugabe and the ruling Zanu-PF‚ Zimbabwean military forces were seen in the streets of Harare, reportedly taking part in a training routine‚ sparking panic in the country's capital. Images shared on social media have left some Zimbabweans fearing that the army could spring a surprise in retaliation to a speech made by the Zanu-PF Youth League...

Zimbabwe's military has detained Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo after seizing power in an attempt to root out criminals around President Robert Mugabe. Chombo was a leading member of the so-called 'G40' faction of the ruling ZANU-PF party, led by Mugabe's wife Grace, that had been vying to succeed the 93-year-old president.

An employee at the state's Cullinan Care and Rahabilitation Centre in Pretoria has told the Life Esidimeni hearings that they were overwhelmed as they were forced to take in more patients than they could care for. They included adults who fell outside the category of patients Cullian looked after. The centre's mandate was to admit patients between the ages of three and 21. Cullinan then had to rap...

EMT Analytics head, Jana Van Deventer looks at market response to National Treasury offering a record amount at its weekly vanilla bond auction as borrowing requirements have increased after the medium term budget ,TransUnion releasing its consumer credit index for South Africa the third quarter and the September retail sales data.

Zimbabwe's military has detained Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo after taking over the streets of Harare. The army says this is not a coup but they're targeting criminals around President Robert Mugabe. Chombo was a leading member of the so-called 'G40' faction of the ruling ZANU-PF party, led by Mugabe's wife Grace, that had been vying to succeed the 93-year-old president. Sakina Kamwendo spoke...

Former President of the South African Society of Psychiatrists or SASOP- Mvuyiso Talatala says the Gauteng Health Department lied in court when it successfully fought off a legal battle to stop the transfer of mentally ill patients. SASOP took the department to court in March last year to stop the transfer of about 50 patients from Life Esidimeni to the Takalani NGO in Soweto. Talatala has been te...

-Former Deputy Minister of higher education Mduduzi Manana sentenced to 12 months in prison or to R100‚000 fine and 500 hours of community service, He will also compensate the women women he assaulted. -EFF rejects the recommendations of the Fees Commission's report. - ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe confirms that he has NOT been suspended from the ANC.

Former Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande, says he is still of the view that all poor and working class students should be provided with free education at tertiary level. His comments come after President Jacob Zuma released the Fees Commission Report yesterday. It recommends that students be funded through a cost-sharing model of government guaranteed loans from commercial banks. The repor...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NASFAS) is adamant that the Fees Commission Report's recommendation that the scheme should be replaced would not work. The report which President Jacob Zuma released yesterday, recommends that students be funded through a cost-sharing model of government guaranteed loans from commercial banks. However, NASFAS chairperson Sizwe Nxasana says such a recommen...

Former President of the South African Society of Psychiatrists or SASOP- Mvuyiso Talatala says the Gauteng Health Department lied in court when it successfully fought off a legal battle to stop the transfer of mentally ill patients. SASOP took the department to court in March last year to stop the transfer of about 50 patients from Life Esidimeni to the Takalani NGO in Soweto. Talatala has been te...