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African unity is under the spotlight today (wednesday 25 May) as the continent celebrates 53 years since the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). A myriad of events are expected across the continent to commemorate Africa Day which represents the vision of the continent's founding fathers after having gained independence from their colonial masters. For some, it is a time for r...

Life in most parts of Vuwani in Limpopo where schools have been torched is yet to return to normal. Learners who are still not back at school find different ways of passing the time. Teachers in volatile areas such as Masokona and Vyeboom have not returned to work, after receiving threats. This is despite the delivery of mobile classrooms to their schools. Katlego Nyoni visited the area and compil...

Market Analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at Asian stocks rebounded from a seven-week low, The Indian operators of Domino’s Pizza Inc. and McDonald’s Corp. dropped after a local research agency said that burger and pizza bread sold at the fast-food outlets contained cancer-causing chemicals and Apple Could Hit Setback in Push to Open Retail Stores in India

Market Analyst at ETM Analytics Jana van Deventer looks at the South African Government Bonds which came under pressure in recent sessions, Pioneer foods, South Africa's second largest producer of staple foods says import tariff on wheat has increased from R 156 per ton to R 1224 per ton in the past twelve months and the USD dollar has rallied to its best levels in two months.

Retired deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke's work in the Constitutional Court, has been hailed and compared with many of his predecessors on the bench, who've given stature and credence to the judiciary. Many have praised him for keeping the highest standards and traditions of judicial excellence during his term in office, overseeing this country's journey to a worthy constitutional democracy....

Umzinto on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast came to a standstill during a community protest against the nomination of candidates for the Local Government in August. Yesterday, businesses and schools were closed due to security concerns. Residents barricaded roads with burning tyres and other debris. Police had to fire rubber bullets to disperse angry crowds. Meanwhile in Umlazi south of Durban, resid...

Former KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu says the ANC informed him last week of his possible redeployment. Mchunu resigned as premier yesterday. Reports surfaced over the weekend that Mchunu had been ordered by the party's provincial leadership to hand in his resignation this week. He lost his position as provincial chairperson to Sihle Zikalala last year. He will be replaced as KZN premier by Tr...

Three people died while several others were injured in various parts of Kenya during opposition protests called to push for the resignation of the country's electoral commission officials. In Kisumu, Homa Bay and Siaya towns in the West of the country, some of the opposition strongholds, the protests turned violent as police pushed to stop the protests, which they have termed illegal. The oppositi...

Amathole District Municipality mayor, Nomasikizi Konza, and seven others implicated in a fraud and money laundering case have been released on bail by the East London magistrate's court in the Eastern Cape. They are facing charges of fraud and money laundering to the tune of over two million rand. This report by Yanga Funani

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it has decided to approach the Supreme Court of Appeal, to apply for leave to appeal against President Jacob Zuma's so-called spy tapes judgement. Last month, the Pretoria High Court ruled that the decision to withdraw charges was irrational. The Executive Secretary at the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), Lawson Na...

The woman who accused Western Cape ANC Chairperson, Marius Fransman, of sexual harassment has expressed disappointed after the case was dropped. The NPA has confirmed that the Director of Public Prosecutions in the North West declined to prosecute due to lack of evidence. Chris Mabuya reports

Market Analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at the dollar which retreated against all of its major counterparts as traders weighed the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next month and the G-7 Shows Gaps on Currency Tactics as Leaders' Summit Looms.

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has denied abusing state resources to bring a Burundian woman into the country. A report in the Suday Times paper reported that she smuggled the 28-year-old into South Africa after flying from Waterkloof Air Force Base to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect her. The woman was reportedly arrested for falsifying travel documen...

South Africans are being urged to expose and isolate those who promote violence during elections. President Jacob Zuma and different faith leaders led a National Prayer Day for peaceful local government elections in Durban yesterday. They also prayed for rain as well as national unity and social cohesion following the recent spate of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals. Our Presidential Corres...

The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, has called for transparency in housing allocation lists. Malema was addressing EFF supporters in Port Elizabeth that is part of the hotly contested Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. He says the housing list should be made public to avoid corruption in the allocation of houses. Siphokazi Chutu reports

The Vice Chancellor of the University of the Free State, Professor Jonathan Jansen, and Professor Adam Habib, the Vice Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, have called for better leadership and more participation from communities in dealing with the violence that is threatening to characterise the education sector in the country. They were speaking at the Kingsmead Book Fair in Roseb...

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has denied abusing state resources to bring a Burundian woman into the country. A report in the Suday Times paper reported that she smuggled the 28-year-old into South Africa after flying from Waterkloof Air Force Base to the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect her. The woman was reportedly arrested for falsifying travel documen...

Today is the last day for voters wishing to participate in the upcoming Local Government Elections to either register or re-register in a new voting district or to update their registration details at their local IEC office. The local government elections are scheduled for the 3rd of August. A week ago, the IEC told parliament that preparations for the coming Local Government Elections have been t...

Jana van Deventer market Analyst from ETM Analytics looks at the main drivers behind the local currency's movements and Political risks that are lingering with the NPA expected to appeal the spy tapes ruling against President Zuma.

An innovative housing pilot project has been launched in Mamelodi, east of Pretoria. An environmentaly-friendly structure is erected over an existing shack ensuring that the shack-owner does not have to relocate while their shack is being converted into a house. Tshwane Executive Mayor, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, says the coverted shacks, dubbed "the Lighthouse", take only four weeks to complete. The d...

Mineral Resources Minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, has told management at Impala Platinum Mine that his ministry will leave no stone unturned in determining the cause of fatal accidents at the mine. Last Tuesday a rock fall incident left one miner dead, while the other one remains trapped underground. This is the second fatal accident in four months, following the January incident, in which four miners...

The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions is hosting its annual conference in Mbabane, Swaziland, this week. The two-day conference will see more than seventeen members of the union deliberate alternatives to changes brought about by Climate Change. The gathering comes amid a decrease in agricultural production due to the recent drought that has hit many countries in the SADC regio...

Co-operative Governance Minister, David van Rooyen, says more emphasis will be put into training councillors after the elections. Van Rooyen was speaking at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Special National Members Assembly in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. SALGA has developed a new Induction Manual to train councillors which is inline with the back-to-basics approach ad...

A South African rifleman was among 129 fallen UN peacekeepers honoured by the United Nations with the posthumous awarding of the Dag Hammarskjold medal for the fallen military, police and civilian personnel killed in 2015. SANDF soldiers Toto Tom Malashe was killed when his unit was ambushed while escorting a logistics convoy as part of their deployment with joint AU-UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. T...

Monday the students of Fort Hare went on protest action demanding that management address their 16 demands before the 100-years celebrations, this as the university prepares to celebrate its centenary. Some of their demands are that those accepted by NSFAS, be given their meal cards with immediate effect and that the residence fee increment reversed. Some of the students were quoted as saying the...