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As South Africans mark Child Protection Week, learners from four different schools in Lavender Hill in Cape Town are appealing for help, saying they are afraid to go to school due to on-going gang violence in the area. The principal of one of the schools - Hillwood Primary School - says he is concerned about his students' safety as gangs run amok in the area. Although Police have been deployed to...

Maudi Lentsoane, group CEO at says the resignation by Thabo Dloti as CEO of South African insurer Liberty Holdings is a set back for transformation. Lentsoane says there is a need for 'Radical Executive Transformation' in South African businesses. Standard Bank corporate and investment banking CEO David Munro is taking over from Dloti.

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) has reiterated its call for the legalisation of sex work in South Africa. They say crimes against sex workers go unreported and unpunished as sex work still remains illegal in the country. Pearl Magubane reports

The family of an Eskom employee whose body was found at her place of work - thirteen days after having been reported missing - suspect it was an inside job. Thembisile Yende was found dead inside her locked office. Yende was an electrician working at an Eskom sub-station in Springs on Gauteng's Eastrand. Ditaba Tsotetsi and Candice Nolan compiled this report

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) wants South Africans to boycott all Zambian products. This in light of what they call authoritarianism and dictatorship of Zambian President Edgar Lungu. Last month the government of Lungu charged the leader of the opposition Hakainde Hichilema of treason for allegedly not giving way to a Presidential convoy. Six days ago DA Leader Mmusi M...

The motion of no confidence against President Jacob Zuma, the use of courts by the opposition when there's disagreements, gender based violence and the impasse on salary negotiations with Nehawu affiliated members are some of the issues which featured strongly during the debate on Parliament's budget vote. Lulama Matya reports.

George Glynos, Economist and Managing Director at ETM Analytics looks at; Growth in money supply and credit extension yesterday was soft, Trade balance data is scheduled for today and Chinese manufacturing seems to be holding up, good news for commodity economies

Judgment has been reserved in the Janus Walusz parole case. This after a procedural irregularity halted Justice minister Michael Masutha's appeal against parole granted to Chris Hanis' killer last year. Ishmael Modiba reports

ANC stalwarts and veterans are calling for the party's MP's to table their own motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma in Parliament. This comes after the party's NEC decided not to recall Zuma this past weekend. The stalwarts say 'no member of the ANC who falls prey to the dictates of commercial and self-interest must be allowed to remain in Government in the name of or act on behalf of t...

Police in KwaZulu-Natal have spent the night trying to rescue foreign shop owners near KwaMashu hostel and surrounding areas north of Durban. This comes after some locals allegedly stormed into the foreign owned shops and looted them. The incident is allegedly to have been prompted by reports of learners who were kidnapped at their schools in KwaMashu. However, police in KwaZulu-Natal have dismiss...

George Glynos, economist at ETM Analytics looks at what are the implications of the ANC’s inability to oust Zuma, Oil prices remaining subdued as US shale ramps up, some good news for the global economy and this week may bring more ratings news updates.

ANC NEC member Matthews Phosa has warned NEC members who are supporting President Jacob Zuma to stay in power that they are running a risk of people loosing confidence to the movement and the leadership. Delivering the O.R Tambo memorial Lecture at Sekakene village of Botlokwa outside Polokwane in Limpopo, Phosa reitereted calls for Zuma to resign. Phosa says NEC members who are supporting Zuma sh...

President Jacob Zuma is reported to have survived a motion of no-confidence in him at an ANC National Executive Committee meeting in Irene outside Pretoria. This is the second time he has survived the motion in six months. Zuma is facing mounting pressure within the ANC as well as from opposition parties and civil society to step down. This report by Tshepo Ikaneng was filed during the party's NEC...

More than 50 percent of children in South Africa experience violence at the hands of the people who should be caring for them. That's according to research conducted by the Institute for Security Studies into violence against women and children. As the country commemorates Child Protection Week we look at the state of children in our country. Thabile Mbhele reports

A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the murder of Hannah Cornelius, a student from the University of Stellenbosch, who was allegedly killed during a hijacking. The 21-year-old's body was found on the side of the road after the vehicle she was travelling in with a friend was hijacked. He was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Lynne Arendse reports

A week search for a 20 year-old woman with albinism has resulted in the gruesome discovery of her body. The body of Asanda Mbuyazi was found stripped naked in the bushes near her home at Ndlabeyilandula, in KwaMbonambi near Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal. Her body had multiple stab wounds. Mbuyazi was reported missing last Sunday and was found last night by police. She was last seen with her bo...

Minister for Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Maphisa-Nqakula says they are finding it increasingly difficult to fulfill their mandate because of continuous budget cuts. She says the budget of her departments has been decreasing by five percent per annum over the past 20 years. She says for them to achieve the goals set in the Defence Review, they need the budget to increase to at least two...

Plans are underway to reopen the Lily gold mine near Barberton in Mpumalanga. Vantage Goldfields, which owns the Lily Gold Mine, has merged with another mining company enhancing prospects of re-opening the mine. Lily Gold Mine remains shut, following a massive landfall that trapped three workers underground. Their bodies have not been recovered. Mthobisi Mkhaliphi attended a meeting between the fo...

The Economic Freedom Fighters Leader Julius Malema has once again called on Africans to take land from what he calls the colonisers. Malema was addressing his supporters at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg CBD, as the continent marked Africa Day yesterday. Mbali Sibanyoni reports....

African Union Chairperson, Mousa Mahamat, has expressed deep concern over the ongoing conflict in South Sudan citing "unspeakable suffering" on civilians in Africa's youngest nation. In a speech read on his behalf during celebrations to mark Africa day in Nairobi, Mahamat called on leaders from both sides of the conflict to stop the killings and establish inclusive dialogue. South Sudan has witnes...

Nadir Tokhan, Investment Analyst at 27-Four Investment Managers looks at the increase in Tiger brands earnings, Producer Price Index numbers came out yesterday and what to expect from the U.S GDP numbers coming out today?

A group of academics investigating reports of state capture believes a 'silent coup' has taken place in South Africa. The group, consisting of academics from various institutions of higher learning released a 72-page report yesterday at the Wits School of Governnance in Johannesburg. The report says that a power elite centred around President Jacob Zuma has managed to build a symbiotic relationshi...

Market Analyst, Maudi Lentsoane of Lehumo Investments looks at Asian Markets heading for a negative close for the week, Oil Prices continuing to fall as OPEC deal disappoints and the latest polls show Theresa May's Conservative Party's in the lead has narrowed ahead of the June 8 elections...

Eskom has been given a green light to switch off lights for owing municipalities. This follows yesteday's dismissal by the Pretoria High Court of an application by Afriforum preventing Eskom from interrupting power from non-paying municipalities. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Suzanne Daniels, the Head of Legal at Eskom

Opposition parties in Parliament have accused Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown of failing to exercise her oversight role on state-owned companies. Brown was delivering her department's budget vote. The debate was characterised by the saga surrounding Eskom CEO Brian Molefe's return to the power utility after taking "unpaid leave" and being sworn-in as an ANC MP. Lulama Matya reports