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Members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), who were on an underground strike for better salaries at the Kimberley Ekapa Mining Joint Venture (KEM JV), have now agreed to come out. By last night it was not clear exactly when the miners will surface. According to NUM's Kimberley Regional Organiser, Orapeleng Moraladi, a total 158 of their members initially went on an underground hunger stri...

In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, United States President Donald Trump has threatened to totally destroy North Korea while calling on righteous countries to confront the wicked few. In a highly anticipated address, Trump also called the Iran Nuclear real reached by six entities including the EU, China and Russia an embarrassment to the United States while complaining abou...

We look at Asian Markets mixed ahead of the central banks policy meetings. and BitCoin recovers from Friday’s sharp sell off Lehumo Investments CEO Maudi Lehumo also explains what BitCoin is.

we look at the World Bank lowering South Africa’s GDP forecasts for the coming three years and CPI data with MT Analystics , Finacial markets head, Jana Van Deventer.

WARNING: The following story contains graphic description which may upset sensitive listeners including children. The provision of quality health care in the North West is again under the spotlight with another woman claiming to have suffered the indignity of giving birth unattended at the Jouberton Community Health centre, near Klerksdorp last week. The woman alleges she was forced to give birth...

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she does not fear international scrutiny on her government's handling of the growing Rohingya crisis. In her first national address on the violence in northern Rakhine state that has seen more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims cross into Bangladesh, Suu Kyi added hat most Muslims had not fled the state and that violence had ceased...

Suspicions have once more been raised following a second fire of its kind that destroyed a wing of the Mthatha Magistrate's Court in the Eastern Cape yesterday afternoon. This follows a similar fire at another court building in the nearby town of Mnqanduli where its believed court documents and computer hardware were destroyed. Police spokesperson, Mzukisi Fatyela says all prisoners who were makin...

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs says it expects Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize to brief it soon on her decision to suspend her director-general, Mkhuseli Apleni. Apleni says he will challenge his suspension. He was placed on precautionary suspenson for failing to arrange a meeting between Mkhize, and her staff. Aplenis' lawyer, Sandile July, earlier said his client received a notice of...

Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni has been suspended. In a statement, the Home Affairs Minister, Professor Hlengiwe Mkhize stated that Apleni has been placed on precautionary suspension with immediate effective. Reasons for his suspension have so far not been provided. We speak to Apleni's Attorney, Sandile July.

Out of all the companies that have been implicated in the Gupta Leaks on bribery and theft, KPMG has been labelled more destructive. This is according to the Chief Executive of Pan-African Investment and Research Services, Dr Iraj Abedian. Abedian adds that the Auditing firm corrupted the very underpinning of corporate governance and the reputational reliability of the external audit function. He...

The western cape Transport Minister, Donald grant instructs officials to get a mediator with a legal background to continue with the taxi industry talks, SARS Commissioner defends the SARS rogue unit report compiled by KPMG saying Sars paid for it and thus it still stands and Video of assault on mentally ill teenager emerges.

We look at Asian Markets mixed ahead of the central banks policy meetings, Egypt knocking South Africa from its long-standing top spot regarding investments in Africa and BitCoin recovers from Friday’s sharp sell off.

we look at the main drivers of the recent ZAR weakness and how oil markets have rallied in recent weeks with ETM Analytics , Head of Financial Markets Jana Van Deventer.

Aphiwe Honono takes us through today's trending topics: Awards season has started in the states and #Emmys are trending, SABC 1 airs - Kalushi- Solomon Mahlangu story and American comedian Kevin Hart under fire after confessing to cheating on his wife.

Awards season has started in the states and #Emmys are trending, SABC 1 airs - Kalushi- Solomon Mahlangu story and American comedian Kevin Hart under fire after confessing to cheating on his wife.

We look at Asian Markets opening the week in the positive territory following a record close on Wall Street and Central banks will be in the spotlight this week, with the South African Reserve Bank; the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan releasing policy statement with Lehumo investments CEO, Maudi Lentsoane.

Outspoken ANC MP Makhosi Khoza's disciplinary hearing by the ANC in KZN was yesterday postponed for a second time after she and her representative failed to attend the hearing. Khoza had released a statement over the weekend saying the disciplinary process initiated against her is illegitimate and cannot proceed following the Pietermartizburg High Court's decision that declared the eighth ANC prov...

Commuters have been left stranded in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats where both taxis and buses are not operating. A number of Golden Arrow buses in the area have been stoned. We speak to Golden Arrorows bus service Spokesperson, Bronwyn Dyke-Beyer and SABC reporter Phumzile Mlangeni on the situation in Pretoria.

we look at Brent crude has rallies significantly in recent weeks and is trading at its best levels since mid-April and main events to keep an eye out for in the week ahead?

Thousands of commuters in both City of Tshwane and Cape Town may be left stranded due to strike action this morning. This as taxi drivers plan to march to the Union Buildings demanding that their traffic fines be scrapped. The planned strike is expected to affect commuters in Soshanguve, Mabopane , Ga-Rankuwa, Atteredgville and Mamelodi. Taxi owners are however against the planned strike and have...

280 workers, who were fired 23 years ago, by the then Midrand Council, will now be employed by the City of Johannesburg. The dismissals, effected in 1994, followed a strike by municipal workers against corruption and nepotism within the council. The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), in collaboration with the City, believes that this historic bargain will vindicate the honest worker...

Human Rights Foundation - iLungelo Lakho - with the support of the SACP and its Youth League, will picket outside the Johannesburg High Court this morning against evictions and illegal house dispossession. The group, which represents evictees from across Gauteng, says they have been evicted from properties they had occupied for decades under apartheid where black people were denied freehold tittle...

Rapper Emtee releases new album titled Manando and Bonang Matheba relaunches her book -Form AtoB.

We look at Asian markets after North Korea’s missile launch and Impala Plat has warned of possible job cuts with investment analyst, Lungile Malinga.

We look at our current account deficit widening from 2% to 2,4 % of GDP in the second quarter of 2017. The Rand losing further grounds against the dollar and the pound yesterday and Aspen Shares jumping to 8.5% after company released impressive sets of results with Lehumo Investments CEO, Maudi Lentsoane