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Former Executive Producer for Current Affairs at SABC News, Krivani Pillay speaks of her tenure at SABC

The joint meeting of Parliament's Police and Justice and Constitutional Development committees, has decided to recommend an ad hoc committee, as a means for the institution to look into issues of national security. This, after the Speaker of the National Assembly, Thoko Didiza, instructed these two portfolio committee, as well as the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence to consider, on an urge...

The electoral commission, IEC in Limpopo, is conducting by-election at ward 13, Seshego, near Polokwane. The provincial electoral officer, Nkaro Mateta, says the voting stations opened at seven in the morning and will close at nine in the evening. The ward became vacant after an EFF councillor was removed from the Polokwane municipal council due to misconduct. For the first time in the province, t...

From the crackle of the radio in quiet townships to the glare of breaking news on television screens, the South African Broadcasting Corporation has been there through it all. Starting from the days, when news was censored and re-broadcasts were ordered from the highest office in the land to a new era, when freedom sometimes felt overwhelming, the SABC has kept pace with the changing South African...

As the SABC celebrates its 75th year, another historical moment in our country's history was the Convention for a Democratic South Africa CODESA; a series of multi-party negotiations in South Africa from 1991 to 1993, aimed at ending apartheid and establishing a democratic government. It involved various political parties, including the African National Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP),...

Veteran Broadcaster Ike Phaahla joins us on the line by his reflection of the valuable time spent at SABC News

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) says  social grant reviews are being undertaken on targeted beneficiaries suspected of having additional sources of income that was not initially disclosed to the Agency. The agency says in April this year it announced ongoing scheduled payment delays to targeted social grants beneficiaries who need to visit local offices to confirm changes in...

Organisers of the  #HandsOffMkhwanazi march are demanding the protection of KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi.  Scores of residents, groups and some political parties are participating in the march in support of Mkhwanazi. Our reporter Simphiwe Makhanya earlier caught up with some of the individuals particiapating in the march. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, F...

 SABC News will celebrate its 75th anniversary on Thursday, 17 July. The public broadcaster aired its first bulletin on radio in 1950. As we take a journey through history to mark 75 years of news at the SABC, there's one person that might come to mind for many listeners of SAfm and that is John Perlman. He spent almost a decade with SAfm morning radio. Today veteran broadcaster, John Perlman...

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)'s  Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Themba Matlou, says  social grant reviews that are being undertaken on targeted beneficiaries suspected of having additional sources of income that was not initially disclosed to the Agency. Matlou says  In April this year, SASSA announced an ongoing scheduled payment delays to targeted social grants...

The community of Fleuhof, West of Johannesburg, continues to reel in shock following the court appearance of Jayden-Leff Meeks's mother at the Roorderpoort Magistrate's court. 31 year old Tiffany Nicole Meek is charged with the murder of his eleven year son. The boy was reported missing by his mother on Tuesday, May the 12th and he was found the next morning half-naked and unconscious on the stair...

The Randburg Magistrates Court has granted bail to the twelve SANDF Special Task Force members accused of the murder of HAWKS investigator Frans Mathipa. The twelve are also charged for the alleged kidnapping of Ethiopian national and alleged ISIS leader, Abdella Abadiga and his bodyguard in December 2022. Mathipa was reportedly investigating Abadiga's disappearance when he was gunned down in Augu...

 The case against embattled businessman, Vusi "Cat" Matlala and his 3 co-accused has been postponed to August 26. The postponement comes after Matlala's defence team asked for the state to furnish them with documents, including their client's cellphone records and bank statements. The four, including Matlala's wife, face multiple charges including the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend. Th...

MK Party leader Jacob Zuma is attending the trial of alleged July 2021 unrest instigator Bonginkosi Khanyile which is underway in the Durban Regional Court. Khanyile is facing charges of inciting violence and contravening Disaster Management Act. The court heard that in July 2021 just before the riots, Khanyile encouraged some people to go on the rampage until Zuma was released from prison. At tha...

United Nations body - UNAIDS and the South African National Aids Council are today launching  the Global AIDS Update Report 2025 titled: AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform' in Ekurhuleni. Studies show that New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa have been reduced by 56% and with the largest antiretroviral roll-out programme in the world. South Africa has contributed to the 54% decline i...

The Democratic Alliance says lying to parliament is a serious criminal offense and anyone found wanting should face the full might of the law. This as party deputy chief whip, Baxolile Nodada held a media briefing a short while ago outside the Cape Town police station ahead of laying criminal charges against Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu. Mchunu is alleged to have lied to parliament about knowing...

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has upheld a 2023 ruling that Caster Semenya's appeal to a Swiss Federal Tribunal against World Athletics regulations that barred her from competing, had not been properly heard. The two-time 800-metre Olympic Games gold medalist is appealing the regulation that female athletes with differences in sexual development, medically reduce their te...

There continues to be mixed reaction to the directive of the Office of the Judiciary that civil matters must first go through mediation before going to trial. This as an attempt to ease severe delays in the courts, which until now have caused new cases to be set down for trial in 2031. About 150-thousand cases are reportedly to have been settled in a year in the South Gauteng region alone. For mor...

Mass shootings have become common in Cape Town. The most recent mass shooting in Cape Town was on Saturday, 5 July, when three people were gunned down inside a shack in the Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni. To address this various  Police executives are today hosting Community Police Forums from accross the Western Cape. Affected areas include various areas of Mitchells Plain, Gugulethu,...

National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola has confirmed that he has not signed off on the closure of the high profile political killings task team investigating political killings in the country. This follows a media briefing on Sunday by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi who alleged that Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu had ordered the closure of the task team. The task team w...

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge says that when he communicated with Judges' Secretary Andiswa Mengo, he did so as a social being not as a senior court official. Evidence leader, Advocate Salome Scheepers is cross-examining the top Judge on his questions to Mengo, saying he sought to cross a personal boundary. Mbenenge is on the stand in the landmark probe into allegations of sexual har...

South Africa opened their Women's Africa Cup of Nations defence with a 2-nil win over Ghana. Coach Deseree Ellis says it was a taxing match in the heat. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC Sports News Anchor, Jon Gericke 

Scores of families have been left destitute after a fire broke-out during the early hours of the morning at Dakota Informal settlement in Isiphingo, South of Durban. For the latest into this incident, Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Fanele Mhlongo.

Johannesburg Public Safety MMC, Mgcini Tshwaku is leading a Crime Prevention and Bylaw Enforcement operation in Midrand, North of Johannesburg. This includes search and seizure raids together with the search and seizure of hijacked buildings. Tshwaku also intends on checking spaza shop compliance and the cleaning illegal dumping sites. He spoke to Sakina Kamwendo 

U.S. President Donald Trump has posted a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa on Truth Social informing him that starting August 1st, South Africa would be charged a tariff of 30% on any and all products sent into the United States. Trump also warned in the letter that were South Africa to raise tariffs on the United States, that this figure would be added on top of the 30%. Trump has again cited t...