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Growth in credit demand slowed to six-point-seven-eight per cent year-on-year in July, down from a revised seven-point-two-three percent in June. That's according to the latest central bank data. The data shows that credit uptake by households is slowing as consumers face high interest rates and tighter credit conditions. Liabo Setho and Tshepo Mongoai compiled this report...

Top management of the Western Cape police say vigilante killings in Khayelitsha (on the Cape Flats) have seen a marked decrease in the past two years. The South African Police Services says it has implemented almost all of the recommendations made by the Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry. The SAPS and the Department of Community safety briefed the Western Cape Provincial Parliament Standing Commit...

Since 2007 High Court Judge Nkola Motata has been placed on special leave but he is still receiving his salary. In than year, Judge Motata was found guilty of drunken driving. He crashed into a wall allegedly because he was drunk. The Judicial Service Commissioner C P Fourie says the case against Judge Motata is taking long because to the challenges in application...

One of South Africa's biggest asset managers Futuregrowth says it plans to only do business with state-owned enterprises with credible management which is acting in the best interest of the companies they run. Futuregrowth yesterday announced that it will stop lending money to six of the country's largest state-owned companies temporarily. The company says it wants to get a better understanding of...

Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, says there was nothing controversial about the Pretoria Girls High School hair policy. Leaners at the school staged a protest over thE hair policy saying it was racist and infringed on their rights. The protests made headlines this week. Mpho Lepedi reports...

Both the Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters have asked the presiding officers of Parliament to investigate the validity of Parliamentary membership of ANC MP Peace Mabe. In the run-up to the August 3rd municipal elections, Mabe was the mayoral candidate of Mogale City in Gauteng. She was also reportedly sworn in as a councillor, but lost the race to become mayor to the DA. Now she h...

Violence linked to the lack of tuition at Sandi High School outside Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape has flared up. Homes rented by learners in the village were attacked last night (monday 29 August). A number of classrooms were vandalised or set alight on Monday, apparently out of frustration over inaction by the authorities. As Mbasa Khwaza reports, there's been no teaching at the school since Febru...

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications has commenced public hearings on the Films and Publications Amendment Bill. The proposed bill could lead to revenge porn being criminalised in South Africa. For more on this we are joined on the line by Film and Publication Board Legal Officer Tholoana Ncheke

The Department of Basic Education says the legislation on schools' conduct will be reviewed to ensure that discriminatory policies are not put in place. This comes after incidents of racism were reported at several schools. Learners at Pretoria High School for Girls staged a protest accusing the school of mistreating pupils with natural black hair or dreadlocks and braids as well as instructing th...

Nerina Visser, strategist at etf SA looks at the uncertainties coming from global markets, US economy is assumed to be on a more sustainable growth path, what does that mean for the demand for commodity prices, and there is an increasing number of private sector corporate governance breaches in the news lately, with British American Tobacco and Arcelor Mittal. .

Heads of State attending the SADC summit in the kingdom of Swaziland were present at this year's Umhlanga Reed Dance ceremony. Among them are presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique. The annual reed dance is the kingdom's biggest cultural event. Motsebi wa Monareng reports.....

More that 50 Thusi Coal Mine workers who staged an underground sit-in in Ermelo in Mpumalanga, are now calling for government's intervention. They started the sit-in last week claiming that the mine management had failed to pay them their salaries for the past three months. Most of them are affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). Mthobisi Mkhaliphi reports....

Black learners at Pretoria Girls High School say they have to face racial abuse on a daily basis. The learners met with Gauteng MEC Panyaza Lesufi after a protest that sparked a countrywide condemnation of racism at the school. Lesufi and Tshwane Executive Mayor Solly Msimanga went to the school to hear the concerns of both sides. Neo Makwiting reports.....

Police in the North West have concluded the process of opening cases against parents, guardians and those responsible for impregnating over three thousand under-age girls. The Ministry of Social Development made the shocking discovery in the rural Ratlou Municipalit on Sunday. Some of the mothers are as young as 11 years old. They are believed to have been impregnated by older men. Police says arr...

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela looks Asian shares which have bounced this morning, the European commission which is to hand Apple an Irish tax bill of over 1 billion euros and Alphabet executive David Drummond who has stepped down from Uber board amid growing competition....

Democratic Alliance leader, Mmusi Maimane has demanded a progress report from Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, who is investigating allegations of state capture by the Gupta family. This comes after the Guptas announced over the weekend that they will sell all their South African business interests. The Public Protector launched an investigation into this matter at the DA's request some months a...

SAA spokesperson, Tlali Tlali says the national carrier is awaiting the response of the National Treasury regarding the government guarantee for over five billion rand, which is being held back by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan until the group elects a new board. This as the entity looks for for a sixteen Billion Rand loan to help meet its working expenditures and to deal with debt.....

An impeachment trial against suspended Brazilian President, Dilma Rousseff has begun. She's facing charges of alleged fiscal mismanagement. After her testimony yesterday, today and tomorrow she'll face a vote in the 81-member Senate. If two-thirds of the members vote against her, interim president Michel Temer, will be sworn in as president. We spoke to former ambassador and international expert,...

Scores of former UDF activists have come together in Cape Town to mark 33 years of its formation. Most of those who spoke looked back with pride at what became arguably the most influential political force in the country in the 1980's. The meeting was also a reflection on what has gone wrong with the ANC leading up to a slide in the recent municipal elections. Joseph Mosia reports

President Jacob Zuma says the just concluded the 6th Tokyo International Conference on African Development will lead to increased investment in Africa. Speaking to the SABC, the president said with Japanese and African companies having signed more than 70 agreements, the summit provides a win win situation for both Africa and Japan. Sarah Kimani reports.

South African Traditional Music Awards has honoured SABC COO by establishing a category after Hlaudi Mostoeneng. And Motsoeneng was awarded with an award for his role in promoting traditional music. The honour was bestowed at the SATMA function in Durban. SATMA founder Dumisani Goba says they decided to honour Motsoeneng for promoting traditional music. Goba says even other categories will be chan...

ANC's Parks Tau says they are planning to launch a civil case against newly elected City of Johannesburg mayor DA's Herman Mashaba over remarks that he allegedly made about ANC women in senior executive positions in the City of Johannesburg. He was speaking at the funeral of a councillor in the city- Nonhlanhla Mthembu, in Naturena south of Johannesburg. Mthembu died on Monday after collapsing at...

The MEC for education in Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi is to meet with the school governing body of the Pretoria girls High School after he was petitioned by learners at the school who say they have been asked to relaxed their hair and are not allowed to speak any other language but English on the school's premises. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to MEC Panyaza Lesufi

Gujwa Magagula, Equity sales analyst at Avior Capital Markets looks at the probability of Federal Reserve rate hike which has now increased and Political risk in South Africa increases imminent downgrade by ratings agencies and Global Monetary Easing.

Businessman and Academic Professor Sipho Pityana hit out at the ANC and President Zuma at the funela of former sports minister and premier of the Eastern Cape Reverend Makhenkesi Stofile. Professor Pityana, called on President Jacob Zuma to step down. Meanwhile, Sports minister Fikile Mbalula acknowledged calls for the ANC to do some introspection following elections...