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Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian markets low as the US dollar strengthens following US Federal Reserve Chair, Janet Yellen, BRICS nations in India have consolidated efforts against terrorism and have welcomed the new UN general Secretary, António Guterres and Naspers polishes off Allegro for over 3 billion dollar

The SAGA around Finance Minister continues as political risks remain top of local agenda, Fed Char Janet Yellend's comments on Friday abot the possibility to let inflation rung higher and keep rates lower for longer and CPI data to be released on Wednesday locally as well as Chinese GDP numbers which will be the focus for the week.

Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian markets which traded narrowly mixed this morning, hinese September exports affect emerging markets including SA and S&P Africa head warns that it is not business as usual in South Africa ...

Gold worth more than seven billion rands is stolen and smuggled out of the country every year. This was revealed by Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Godfrey Oliphant who was addressing the NCOP during a debate on illegal mining in the country. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more...........

Public Protector Thuli Madonsela is weighing her legal options after President Jacob Zuma applied for an interdict in a last-minute attempt to stop her from releasing a preliminary report on alleged state capture. Madonsela is due to hold a news conference today (14/10/16) on the day that she steps down. Zuma wants to stop Madonsela from releasing details that the Gupta family allegedly used their...

The EFF has vowed to intensify it's campaign for free education and against the Gupta family and president Jacob Zuma. The party has announced plans to support the ongoing students protests - insisting that the country has the means to make free education possible. The EFF has also once again called for the immediate resignation of president Zuma and says that prosecution boss Shaun Abrahams must...

Classes have been suspended at the Westville campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Police have used teargas and rubber bullets to disperse protesting students. Meanwhile, only four out of eleven people being prosecuted after the Fees Must Fall protests in Pietermaritzburg, have been granted bail. Seven students will remain behind bars until the end of their trial.. Fanele Mhlongo compiled thi...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian markets as they were mixed following Chinese markets shrug of weak China trade data, PSG Group to invest in private universities and the S&P 500 coming to SA...

The situation remains tense at the University of KwaZulu-Natal as some students continue boycotting classes while non-striking students try by all means to attend their classes. There has been another fire at one of the residences on the Pietermaritzburg campus. Parts of the council chamber offices were torched and a small portion of the television room at the Malherbe residence was also set aligh...

Barely a day after serving fraud charges against Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan , National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams says he won't hesitate to review the charges should Gorhan himself make an application review for such determination. Fending off the barrage of questions from members of the portfolio committee on justice in parliament, Abrahams was at pain telling MPs that it...

A man who is alleged to have shot dead three people at Pretoria East security estate has killed himself. The man was found dead in his Meadows estate in Moreleta Park, Pretoria after he held hostage two police officers and three security guards. The motive for his shooting spree is still unknown. Phumzile Mlangeni reports.

The situation remains tense at the University of KwaZulu-Natal as some students continue boycotting classes while non-striking students try by all means to attend their classes. There has been another fire at one of the residences on the Pietermaritzburg campus. Parts of the council chamber offices were torched and a small portion of the television room at the Malherbe residence was also set aligh...

A noble cause initiated by university students has turned into chaos through the destruction of property during their protests. However, at one point in time students were united in song at Wit's University's Solomon Mahlangu Hall...have a listen...

The Commission investigating the commercialisation of religion has found that many South African churches are selling religion to desperate and vulnerable people. It says the majority of churches do not abide by the country's laws. The Commission has recommended that all religious institutions be registered and affiliated to some regulatory body to be established immediately. Senior journalist Tha...

Outgoing Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela and President Jacob Zuma appear to be locked in a standoff over the probe into allegations of State Capture by the Gupta family. Madonsela is probing the alleged involvement of the family in the dismissal and appointment of cabinet ministers and State Owned Enterprise Board of directors. The family is suspected of using its proximity to the president to i...

The news of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan recieving summons to appear in court rattled the markets. The rand weakened by three percent to the US Dollar, with the financial stocks the hardest hit following the news. Gordhan was about to deliver a keynote speech at a conference of the Gauteng provincial government in Johannesburg when he learned that a summons had been delivered at his house today...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not above the law and he ought to humble himself by facing all allegations against him in the courts of law. This is the majority view held by political parties represented in parliament. Their mixed reactions were responses to what they described as shocking charges against Gordhan. While they sympathised and have confident on the innocence of the minister, memb...

Strategist at ETF SA Nerina Visser breaks downs the implications of the market-moving story of the day was the summons issued to finance minister Pravin Ghordan on fraud charges.

Market Analyst, Nerina Visser, Strategist & Advisor at ETF looks at one of the big movers yesterday, oil price which moved in a direction that we don't particularly like, which is up and the Chinese market which was closed for the entire week last week for the so-called Golden Week Holiday and all eyes were on their currency, the yuan...

It is not clear whether academic programme will resume at Wits university this morning. This after clashes broke out between police and the students at the main campus in Braamfontein before setting alight a bus on the streets of Braamfontein. Police are yet to give the exact number of students arrested. However the students have vowed to shut down the university until their demand for free higher...

The council of Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape has taken a decision to re-open the university on Wednesday to continue with the academic programme. The special council meeting was convened to discuss all problems besieging the university including the demands of the students. The management shut the university after students boycotted classes for more than three weeks. Makhaya Komisa repo...

President Jacob Zuma arrives in Kenya on Monday for a three-day state visit. During his visit, Zuma will hold talks with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta on a wide range of bilateral issues and also attend a joint South Africa - Kenya business summit. Our reporter in Kenya Sarah Kimani spoke to Dr Bongani Ngqulunga - President Zuma's spokesperson - ahead of the visit.

Chaos broke out at Wits University's main campus where students clashed with the police and private security yesterday. Protesting students disrupted the academic programme and vowed to shut down the university until their demand for free quality higher education is met. By evening the protest had spilled over into surrounding areas outside the Braamfontein campus. A group of protesters pelted a s...

Market analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian Markets

A total of sixty-six police officers who have been involved in crime have been dismissed. The Gauteng police say forty two of those officers were involved in among other things, housebreaking, theft and possession of stolen motor vehicles. To get a reaction on this we spoke to the Deputy President of South African Police Union, Tumi Mogodiseng -