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Impala Platinum Mine near Rustenburg says chances of finding the missing miner still alive are getting slim. The mine revealed overnight that they found a body of one miner in an area with extremely unstable ground. The two miners were trapped underground on Tuesday following a rock fall. Mine spokesperson Johan Theron says they are continuing the search...

South Africa's most celebrated Deputy Chief Justice is set to retire, after serving 15 years on the bench. Justice Dikgang Moseneke helped steer South Africa's highest court - the Constitutional Court - over a tumultuous period shaping our laws in notable ways. With dogged determination, Moseneke faced off with politicians, both inside and outside the court, speaking truth to power. Some say that...

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 community leader from Chibok in north eastern Nigeria says almost all the girls kidnapped over two years ago by Boko Haram are being held in the Sambisa forest. The leader was quoting a girl who has been rescued from the outskirts of the forest. Amina Ali Nkeki was found carrying a baby by an army-backed vigilante group in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. Over 200 girls rem...

In less than three months, South Africans will vote in the 2016 local government elections. However, in the build up to the vote, we've seen a number of community protests in the country. According to local government data and intelligence organisation, Municipal IQ, 2016 is set to be a record year for protest action. The organisation says this year has seen 70 protests compared to a total of 164...

The South African Communist Party has accused the head of the Hawks, Lieutenant-Genera Berning Ntlemeza of pursuing a political agenda. The party claims that Ntlemeza was overheard saying his 'new mandate' was to harass Communists and the next in line was Madoda Sambatha of North West. The SACP says the conduct of the Hawks under Ntlemeza's stewardship leaves much to be desired. We also caught up...

Students from the Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape resumed their violent protests last night with cars on the Alice campus being pelted with stones and tyres set alight. The protesting students are demanding that those accepted by NSFAS, be given their meal cards with immediate effect. They also want the residence fee increment reversed. Students broke into various buildings and looted tab...

The National African Chamber of Commerce (Nafcoc) says any decision to increase the minimum drinking age to 21 years will be challenge in court. The President of NAFCOC, Lawrence Mavundla says the proposed bill doesn't make sense at all and that as soon as the revised version is made public, they will engage it. We caught up with him for more on this story...

President Jacob Zuma says he did not lie to Parliament and the nation when he said he had a loan on his Nkandla home in northern Kwa Zulu-Natal. He was replying to to questions in the National Assembly. Earlier DA leader Mmusi Maimane claimed the president had misled the nation after the Public Protector and the Constitutional Court ruled his family had unduly benefited from non-security upgrades...

There were chaotic scenes in the National Assembly again yesterday afternoon. This, after EFF MPS tried again to prevent President Jacob Zuma from responding to oral questions in the house. After they refused to leave the House when ordered to do so by the Speaker Baleka Mbete, they were forcibly ejected out of the National Assembly by members of parliament's protection servces. Lulama Matya repor...

The National Council of Provinces has passed the Expropriation Bill with the support of all provinces except the Western Cape. One of the objectives of the bill is to give the Public Works Minister the power to expropriate property on behalf on an organ of state if it is deemed in the Public interest. Just and equitable compensation will be key, before any property can be expropriated. Our Parliam...

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

The University of Johannesburg has vowed to have the arsonists responsible for burning its main auditorium apprehended and brought to justice. It is believed that arsonists fire bombed Kingsway campus' main thousand seater auditorium and computer laboratories. The damage is estimated at 100 million rand. Some students have blamed campus security for the fire. We earlier spoke to a student at the U...

Schools in Vuwani are reported to have started on a slow pace yesterday with a low turnout and students left stranded without classes to attend to. Limpopo government says it has expected less that 50 percent turnout on the first day and that numbers to pick up as time goes on. More than 20 schools were burned down during violence, which led to a complete shutdown of schools for two weeks. Sakina...

President Jacob Zuma's oral reply session and a snap debate on the crisis facing Vuwani in Limpopo are expected to take centre stage in Parliament today. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent looks at what is expected to happen in Parliament today and she filed this report...

Gauteng government has condemned what it calls the "rowdy behaviour" of a group of meter taxi operators. This after MEC for Roads and Transport in Gauteng, Ishmael Vadi was intimidated following an announcement that his department is to start issuing licenses to Uber drivers and regulate them like metered taxis in the province. The move has angered some operators who wants Uber drivers not to be a...

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

The recent gang violence in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth, has attracted the attention of DA leader Mmusi Maimane. He paid a visit to the Ruiters family whose two-year-old daughter was killed when a stray bullet hit her in their yard in Helenvale. It happened in December during a gang war that is continuing in the area. Veronica Fourie reports ..

The EFF leader, Julius Malema, says if his party wins the Cape Town Metro, it will expropriate land without compensation. He was addressing party members in a packed Gugulethu Sport Complex on the Cape Flats. Malema says they are willing to test the Constitution in court regarding the land issue. He says that taking over Cape Town after the Local Government elections in August, is his party's prio...

Schooling is today ( Monday 16/05/16) expected to resume in over one hundred schools in Vuwani and surrounding villages in Limpopo. Residents have been protesting against the inclusion of their areas into a new municipality. The violent protest action has left twenty schools gutted and vandalised. Sakina Kwamwendo speaks to our reporter in Vuwani Witness Tiva

The Presidency has dismissed reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan faces an imminent arrest. The Sunday Times newspaper has reported that the Hawks want Gordhan to be charged of "espionage" in a case related to the activities of the SA Revenue Service's so-called "rogue unit". For more on this we are joined on the line by Associate Editor at Daily Waverick, Ranjeni Munusamy...

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