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Limpopo's Co-operative Governance MEC, Makoma Makhurupetje, says preparations are well underway for the new municipality in the Vhembe District. Makhurupetje says the seat of the new municipality will be in Malamulele until the municipal council takes a decision on its permanent seat. This comes amid rumours that offices will be built in Vuwani, where some residents do not want their area to be in...

Close to ten thousand Zimbabweans have marched through the streets of Harare in support of President Robert Mugabe. The veteran leader has been under increasing public pressure to step down. Marchers, led by his party's youth league, say they won't tolerate protests against him. Shingai Nyoka reports

The independent electoral commission has expressed great concern over the on-going violence ahead of the August 3rd local government elections. As many as ten ANC members including councillor candidates have been killed in politically related violence in KwaZulu Natal alone. The commission has called for maximum restraint saying its powers to deal with the violence are limited. The electoral body...

The International Monetary Fund- IMF says that the political uncertainty in the country and concerns around governance matters continue to shake investor confidence. The institution says high levels of corruption in the country are also impeding economic growth.. MorafeTabane reports

New York businessman, Donald Trump is officially the nominee for the Republican Party after he officially accepts the nomination tomorrow. This report by Sherwin Bryce-Pease in Cleveland, Ohio.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says it believes the spate of killings in the province is a ploy to intimidate and demoralise their candidates and volunteers ahead of the local government elections. More than ten ANC members including candidates for the coming local government elections have been killed this year. On Monday, two of the party's ward candidates were gunned down in separate incidents. Mbuso...

Eskom says the increase in backyard dwellers in some parts of the country and illegal electricity connections are adding pressure to the electricity network. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Eskom Group Chief Executive Brian Molefe who says this is the main reason why electricity trips sometimes, causing blackouts in some areas.

South Africa's Dr. Nkosozana Dlamini-Zuma will continue as chairperson of the African Union Commission until January next year when elections to replace her will be held. The elections were suspended after all three candidates failed to receive the required two thirds of the votes cast. The deputy chairperson Erastus Mwencha as well commissioners who were due for retirement, will remain in office....

Economist and head of ETM Analytic, Jana van Deventer looks at what the failed military coup in Turkey means for emerging markets and how investors view these countries as investment destinations and oil markets having not done well since the beginning of July, will this impacts the average South African.

Another ANC ward candidate has been shot dead, this time at Harding in southern KwaZulu-Natal. Bongani Skhosana was transporting scholars in his mini bus when unknown gunmen opened fire, killing him in full view of the children. Skhosana is the fifth ANC candidate to be killed during the election period. Meanwhile, the party's offices at Richmond in the midlands have been set on fire by unknown pe...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian shares slipping as the decline in crude oil curbed the enthusiasm on Wall Street, Oil prices falling on concerns of oversupply despite cuts in Shale production and three U.S states planning lawsuits over Volkswagen diesel pollution even after they announced settlements in June....

Trade union solidarity is going to be representing the journalists at the labour court on Thursday. We are now joined on the line by one of the lawyers under trade union Solidarity representing the SABC journalists, Anton van der Bilj

Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Chairperson of Media Freedom Sub Commitee at South Africa's National Editor's Forum, Sam Mkhokheli who journalists should challenge decisions that are made by the corporations. Mkhokheli was responding to the public broadcasters decision to dismiss four of the eight journalists who have taken the corporation to court.

Another ANC ward candidate has been shot dead, this time at Harding in southern KwaZulu-Natal. Bongani Skhosana was transporting scholars in his mini bus when unknown gunmen opened fire, killing him in full view of the children. Skhosana is the fifth ANC candidate to be killed during the election period. Meanwhile, the party's offices at Richmond in the midlands have been set on fire by unknown pe...

Hopes of an imminent cure for HIV/Aids are diminishing following statements by leading researchers at the International Aids Conference in Durban. Some scientists at the conference say there has been progress regarding treatment and if used properly it can dramatically increase life expectancy. We caught up with general secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, Anele Yawa for more deails

South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has expressed concern about what it says is government's waning commitment to international law and human rights. The organisation has written a letter to International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, cautioning against reported plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court and questioning voting decisions at the United Nations. Fo...

Head Strategic Research at Nedbank CIB, Mohammed Nalla speaks South Africa mining remaining in decline over the year, BOE surprising markets with no rate cut and Chinese GDP beating the market expectation.....

The Constitutional Court will this morning hand down its much-anticipated decision in an affirmative action case lodged, for the first time ever, by a previously disadvantaged group. A group of coloured employees say they were unfairly overlooked for promotion within the Western Cape Department of Correctional Services because of the colour of their skin. The case concerns the Department's Employm...

African Union Heads of State will decide this week whether to expand the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in South Sudan. Rwanda's Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo says the latest fighting in South Sudan - the world's newest nation - will be given priority when African Presidents meet in Kigali. The mandate of United Nations Mission for South Sudan will expire at the end...

The Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce has again called for the decriminalisation of sex work. Various organisations including SWEAT and the Women's Legal Centre met in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss problems in the sex industry ahead of the 21st International Aids Conference in Durban next week. Chris Mabuya reports....

The Constitutional Court will hand down judgment on Thursday on whether the Extension of Security of Tenure Act or ESTA covers the spouse of a farm worker. A rural woman has asked that the court recognise her right of occupation as independent from her husband. Elsie Klaase says she has lived on the farm all her life and has nowhere else to go. She was ordered to move out after her husband was fir...

Illegal initiation school operators could begin to feel the full might of the law from next year. Co-operative Governance Deputy Minister Obed Bapela has committed to ensuring that government passes a law to criminalise illegal schools, abductions and initiating boys under the age of 18. Bapela was speaking in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, where he was responding to a call by three parents w...

Government employees and members of the public will now have the opportunity to access affordable housing finance following a R10.5 billion investment in SA Home Loans (SAHL). Government Employees Pension Fund says the initiative is part of plans to provide cheaper mortgages and build more houses. The Home Loans be available to its 1.2 million active members who qualify for credit and will also yi...

Eight people have been killed in a fire which broke out at an orphanage at Parlock near Durban early this morning. KwaZulu-Natal Emergency Medical Services's spokesperson Robert MacKenzie has the details...

Armscor, has assembled a team of "cyber experts" to analyse the extent of a breach of its computer systems. This comes after sensitive tender information was stolen from its computers. Armsco's computers system was hacked by hacktivist group, Anonymous. It is understood that 63 megabytes of secret information was leaked. To help us look at the motivations behind these hacking, we are joined on the...