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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has fired his First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Information Minister SImon Khaya Moyo read a statement at a media briefing saying Mngangagwa has been disloyal, deceitful, disrespectful and unreliable. This ends weeks of speculation following a month-long fallout. Nthakoana Ngatane reports:

Investigators in the United States are scouring the background of the deceased gunman who opened fire inside a church in Texas killing 26 people and injuring 20 more. Police have since confirmed that the gunman - identified as a former member of the Air Force - as having died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside the vehicle he used to escape the scene of the attack. The gunman was reported t...

The ANC-SACP bilateral ended at the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg on Monday night with an agreement to have another meeting later this month. The meeting was called to discuss unity and the functioning of the alliance with the SACP now decided to independently contest 21 wards at the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the Free State This follows the Communist Party's call for President Jacob Zum...

Communication Workers Union (CWU) is denying allegations that collusion with SABC management could be the reason behind their decision to call off last week's workers strike. The claim came out during the interview we had with the President of BEMAWU, Hannes Du Buison, yesterday when I asked him the actual reasons for his union to call the strike off after 2 days. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to CWU pres...

Market analyst, Maudi Lentsoane looks at Asian Markets as the Major indexes are trading higher, the Nikkei 225 and Hang Seng Index leading gains, the YPO Global Pulse Confidence Index for Asia climbed 1.3 points to 62.8.and the JSE also touched a new record yesterday, traded above 60000 before closing marginally below that level.

Market Analyst, Nerina Visser looks at SA markets as oil market in the short term are up another 3+% yesterday, now sitting solidly above $64 a barre, the move by Firstrand announced yesterday ,to acquire the British bank Aldermore and the JSE again recorded an all-time high yesterday...

Botswana government has officially lodged a complain with South Africa's Ministry of International Relations after Premier Mahumapelo's convoy allegedly pushed Botswana's President Ian Khama vehicles off the road, in Botswana this past week. South Africa's diplomatic and bilateral relations with Botswana have been good over the years. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Mahumapelo's spokesperson Brian Setswa...

Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has accused vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa of wanting to stage a coup in the country. Addressing a multi-church gathering in Harare yesterday, the first lady said Mnangagwa wanted to wrestle power from President Robert Mugabe since the 1980s. Mnangagwa has been under pressure since reports suggested that a section of the ruling ZanuPF wants him to succeed Robe...

Members of the public are downloading a pirated, hacked version of Jacques Pauw's controversial new book despite the publishers' warning against this. 'The Presidents Keepers' quickly moved to international best seller lists and sold out within a matter of hours on Friday after the State Security Agency ordered NB Publishers to cease and desist from selling and or printing any more copies. The Rev...

The government of Botswana has officially lodged a complaint with South Africa's Department of International Relations after North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo's convoy allegedly pushed Botswana President Ian Khama's vehicles off the road, in Botswana this past week. Our reporter Lucas Mothibedi has compiled this report...

A 41-year-old woman who was allegedly raped by her former employer in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga claims that she is living in fear, almost three years later. She has also raised concerns in the manner in which the matter is handled. The victim also claims that a rape case was opened at a local police station immediately after the incident about three years ago but still the perpetrator has not been p...

President Jacob Zuma has committed to setting up a commission of inquiry into state capture within thirty days if former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's State Capture report is set aside. The president's lawyers made the assertion in their responding papers filed at the High Court in Pretoria YESTERDAY. Last week Zuma took Madonsela's recommendation that he establish a commission of inquiry int...

President Jacob Zuma has confirmed that he plans to institute an inquiry into state capture. He's indicated he would do so within 30 days of the High Court in Pretoria ruling on his review. Earlier today, the president's lawyers met the deadline to make their submission to the Court on the way forward with regards to the Public Protector's state of capture remedial action recommendations. Details...

-Triple murder accused Henri van Breda takes the stand at the Western Cape High Court. -American Actor and Producer Kevin Spacey is the latest celebrity to be embroiled in a sex scandal. American Talk show host Wendy Williams faints on LIVE TV.

A police task team in KwaZulu-Natal which is investigating taxi violence has taken over the investigation of a spate of recent killings in the province believed to be linked to taxi violence. In the last two weeks, eighteen people have died in incidents related to taxi violence. In the latest incident, the deputy chairperson of the Klipriver Taxi Association and his bodyguards were ambushed and ki...

EMT Analytics head, Jana Van Deventer looks at the final trading session for October saw the rand weakening slightly vs. the USD, release of trade and unemployment data and expectations on the latest manufacturing PMI numbers as well as vehicle sales data and US Federal Reserve bank’s latest decision on monetary policy.

Parliament on Tuesday heard how consultancy company Trillian Capital was paid hundreds of millions of rands by Eskom without a proper contract. A former executive of the company told parliament that one of the senior executives had made huge sums of money trading on knowledge that a minister of finance was going to be fired. This is some of the evidence led during the parliamentary inquiry into Es...

A police task team in KwaZulu-Natal which is investigating taxi violence has taken over the investigation of a spate of recent killings in the province believed to be linked to taxi violence. In the last two weeks, eighteen people have died in incidents related to taxi violence. In the latest incident, the deputy chairperson of the Klipriver Taxi Association and his bodyguards were ambushed and ki...

Four of the eight former police officers who were involved in the killing a Mozambican immigrant - Mido Macia - will be appealing their conviction in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Wednesday. Eight police officers were sentenced to fifteen years in prison after they dragged Macia for about five-hundred metres behind a police van in 2013. The SABC's Thabiso Radebe reports

The SABC has been issued with a strike notice from the two unions representing workers at the Public Broadcaster. In separate statements, the Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (BEMAWU) and the Communication Workers' Union, CWU, say the strike will start on Thursday morning. Both unions had earlier agreed to delay issuing of a strike notice to the SABC in order to afford the...

The South African Revenue Service has confirmed that its suspended second-in-command Jonas Makwakwa will return to work on Wednesday. In September 2016, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) submitted a report to SARS flagging payments made into Makwakwa and co-worker, Kelly-Ann Elskie's personal bank accounts. SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane subsequently suspended the pair pending a full investiga...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) will go on an open tender process to find suitable service providers to take over the distribution of social grants. This follows a progress report by the Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini on the payments of social grants in future. According to the Minister, the Post Office does not meet the requirements to fully take over the distri...

Things take a turn for the worst on Social media following the #BlackMonday Marches and Rapper Emtee flashes his followers on instagram.

EMT Analytics head, Jana Van Deventer looks at SARB Deputy Gov. Daniel Mminele opinion that the South African economy seeing signs of a modest recovery. • Moving on to today – focus is seen resting with the monthly trade data for September as well as the Q3 unemployment rate.

A former CEO of a Pretoria-based NGO has told the Esidimeni hearings how she continued withdrawing SASSA grants on behalf of some of the mentally-ill patients after they had died. Dorothy Franks says this was over and above receiving payment from the Gauteng Health Department. All of this happened after Franks' NGO, Anchor House, was shut down and she had quit as CEO. Like representatives of other...