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Residents of Sizanani informal settlement in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga have warned government officials to immediately attend to their demands of better services in their area. They are threatening not to go to the polls come this year's Local Government Elections in August should the Emhlalahleni Local Municipality not provide them with electricity, clean drinkable water and proper road infrastructu...

Mineworkers Union AMCU- has suspended its strike at Sibanye Platinum Mine formerly known as Aquarius in Kroondal near Rustenburg in the North West. The mine obtained a court interdict preventing the workers from continuing with the strike. Mineworkers downed tools last week Friday demanding the mine provides them with transport, as they were being attacked after working night shift. Zebilon Maine...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian markets in the positive, the JSE up despite losses in gold mines and financials and emerging market dream story may be over.

The KwaZulu-Natal Social Development Department has urged parents to be cautious and be on the look out for any behavioural changes in their children. This follows the discovery of a drug lab at Chatsworth south of Durban where drugs were produced that look similar to jelly babies sweets. It is suspected that these new drugs are aimed at primary school learners. Nonkululeko Hlophe report

Investment Analyst at 27Four Investment Managers Nadir Thokan talks about the unbundling of Bidvest food services and the Eurozone Economic Confidence has strengthened

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks whats happening in the Asian Markets and the yoan ¥ is hurting the Chinese economy

Investment Analyst from 27Four Investments Nadir Token looks at the impact on Gold prices of the of the US interest rates moves, the substantial 100-US dollar outflow from equity funds this year and talks about at Truworths investment?

The Presidency has denies reports that President Jacob Zuma refused to his jet Inkwazi. Speaking to Sakina Kamwendo on AMLive, the spokesperson for the President Dr Bongani Ngqulunga said Zuma had been invited to officiate at a Toyota event in Durban. He said requested the Department of Defence to provide him with a reliable aircraft.

Government has embarked on the annual Child Protection Week campaign which began yesterday and will continue until June the fifth. This year's theme is "Let Us All Protect Children To Move South Africa Forward". The campaign was launched at Braakspruit Farm, outside Klerksdorp in the North West Province. Issues of child labour and exploitation are common on farms. To chat to us about this, we spok...

The Democratic Alliance says it will go ahead with its plans to lodge a complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (icasa), stating that the SABC has allegedly refused to air its election advertisement. In a statement,the DA says the SABC had informed the party that it had no available slots for political advertisements. The DA said the SABC blamed its refusal to air i...

Earlier the trade union AMCU has vowed to continue with its strike at the Sibanye Platinum mine, despite the company's issuing of a court order declaring the strike unprotected, but has since suspended it. The biggest union in South Africa's platinum industry embarked on the strike at the mine last month. It's demanding transport and safety allowances as well as bonuses. Earlier we caught up with...

Sentencing proceedings are set to get under way today in the Western Cape High Court in the case of the woman convicted of kidnapping Zephany Nurse 19 years ago. The 51-year-old woman from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats was found guilty on three charges - kidnapping, fraud and contravening sections of the Childre ns Act. Zephany was kidnapped from Groote Schuur hospital when she was three-days-ol...

The Central Energy Fund says South Africa still has access to 90 days worth of crude oil reserves. This follows media reports suggesting that the country's strategic reserves have been drained to three hundred thousand barrels, enough for less than one day. The reports allege that the Central Energy Fund, the guardian of SA's strategic crude oil stocks, sold ten million barrels of crude without ob...

Jana van Deventer Market Analyst at ETM looks at how South Africa’s strategic fuel fund secretly sold off a staggering 10 million barrels of crude back in December, South Africa’s credit rating and the risk of sub-investment grade (or junk status) is a hot topic right now.

A study conducted by Stellenbosch University has revealed that over 50% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa do not understand what they read‚ while almost 30% are illiterate. Titled "Laying Firm Foundations: Getting Reading Right", the research investigated the causes of weak student performance in literacy and numeracy in the Foundation Phases. The study aslo focused on overcrowded classrooms, wi...

Eskom says it will not waive the electricity debt of the residents of Soweto, but it will only freeze the interest. This follows media reports that Eskom plans to waive the residents' debt on condition they convert to prepaid meters. The National Spokesperson of Eskom Khulu Phasiwe says reports are not true, as the only thing that Eskom is considering is to freeze the interest charged on the debt....

The South African Revenue Service has identified roughly 1,700 local citizens whose names appear in the offshore records contained in the Panama Papers. The executive of the revenue service's product oversight, legal and policy division, Vlok Symington, told Parliament the roles of those identified vary from shareholders, directors, beneficiaries. Here is what he had to say...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian stocks and Japan and China's millennials will work themselves death

More than one hundred bank accounts have been frozen by the South African Reserve Bank on suspicion of being illicit financial transactions. This was revealed by the South African Reserve Bank during a meeting of the joint sitting of three parliamentary committees. Lulama Matya reports.

Jana van Deventer Market Analyst at ETM Analytics talks about the Lewis Group which released its earnings results showing a 26.5% drop in profits, SA consumers under more pressure and a possible fuel hike on the cards.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has rejected claims that the ANC is buying votes with food parcels through the Social Development Department's relief programme. Ramaphosa spoke during his oral reply session in the National Assembly. Our parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more

Residents of Kgakala township near Leeudooringstaad in the North West are battling with high unemployment rates. This was key on a list of demands residents raised during their march against the Maqwassie Hills Municipality. The protest march turned violent and resulted in the arrest of nineteen people, after they looted shops belonging to foreign nationals. Mmaserole Molefe and Dyaell Gaetsewe co...

The Higher Education Minister says the country's University system is largely functional and blamed fringe element for protests and violence on campuses that he believes could be linked to a broader political agenda. Speaking exclusively to SABC News in New York on the sidelines of a series of meetings with North American universities and foundations, Dr Blade Nzimande urged law enforcement assist...

The department of environmental affairs says it is studying the Supreme Court of Appeals' ruling which legalises domestic rhino horn trade, dismissing the department's bid to keep a ban on domestic trade in place. Thousands of South African rhinos have been slain in recent years to meet demand for the horn in Asian countries. To look into the implications of the judgment we are joined on the line...

The community of Skampaneng in Hammanskraal north of Pretoria is expected to meet with government officials today to resolve the violence. Community members have been protesting the demolition of their shacks by the Red Ants. Two people have been killed and three busses torched. One of the community members, David Sebothoma, says the Themba Police Station Commander met with them yesterday and prom...