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President Jacob Zuma has assured the media that whatever laws are passed that may affect the sector will not contravene the rights to freedom of expression and speech enshrined in the constitution. Zuma yesterday hosted Editors and Senior Journalists from a cross section of the media in an event to commemorate Press Freedom Day today. However the President's assurances have not convinced all as Se...

A family from rural KwaMaphumulo north of Durban has been left traumatised after they spent a day driving around with the body of an unknown person in a coffin due to a case of mistaken identity. The government mortuary refused to take the body back once the mistake was discovered. Nhlanhla Nxele reports

Publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly Martin Creamer give us this week’s update on our weekly feature, The Coal-Face. Business Leadership South Africa this week called for the jailing of pension fund trustees who have failed to pay ex-mineworkers their pensions, Wescoal this week put up its hand up as the flag-bearer of black junior coal mining in South Africa and Sibanye this we...

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A Western Cape farm manager has contradicted allegations that a family has been rendered homeless by their eviction. This is contained in a response to a Constitutional Court petition for the Snyders family to be returned to the workers cottage on the farm. The manager says their return is impractical, as there is already someone else living there. Senior Constitutional Court reporter, Candice Nol...

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says his department is to consider a proposal to regulate tertiary education fees. He was speaking on the sidelines of the Higher Education Transformation Summit in Durban. For more Sakina Kamwendo spoke to President of the South African Students Congress Ntuthuko Makhombothi on students protest outside summit

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande says his department is to consider a proposal to regulate tertiary education fees. He was speaking on the sidelines of the Higher Education Transformation Summit in Durban. The recent ANC National General Council tasked the department with developing a regulatory framework to curb massive increases of fees at tertiary institutions. Meanwhile, f...

The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) says it's dealing with bureaucratic hurdles that are hampering plans for the construction of the world's largest hydro-power dam. The Grand Inga Dam is seen as key to resolving the continent's power shortages as it has the potential to provide electricity for most of Africa. This multi-billion project that has long been on the cards. The fra...

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More police have been deployed at Vrygrond near Cape Town due to the on going taxi violence. A local community centre was also set alight. Chris Mabuya reports

The four children of a taxi driver who died in a bridge collapse in the Sandton area, north of Johannesburg, now face an uncertain future. Twenty-seven year-old Siyabonga Myeni, is one of the two people who died when a pedestrian bridge under construction on the Grayston Drive off-ramp collapsed on Wednesday afternoon. Twenty other people were injured, three of them critically. Both sides of the M...

We now get an update on what has been happening at Wits University .... yesterday the university's main campus in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, came to a standstill as students protested against what they maintain are exorbitant tuition and residence fee increases for 2016. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Wits University Spokesperson, Shirona Patel

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At least two people are confirmed to have died after a temporary scaffolding structure collapsed in Sandton yesterday. The structure was used as a bridge for cyclists and pedestrians over the busy M1 highway. The collapse of the bridge comes as the City of Johannesburg is promoting the Ecomobility World Festival which encouraged motorists to park their cars, cycle, walk and use public transport to...

National Police Commissioner, General Riah Phiyega, has been suspended with immediate effect. Her suspension follows recommendations by a Board of Inquiry into allegations of misconduct, her fitness to hold office and her capacity to execute official duties efficiently. Phiyega has been under fire for the police shooting of 34 miners at Marikana in 2012. Let's take a look back to the 15 June 2012...

ANC in the Northern Cape says they will have a Provincial Executive Committee meeting tomorrow, to map out the way forward regarding the future of the party's chairperson John Block. Block, together with the director of Trifecta, Christo Scholtz, were found guilty of fraud, corruption and money laundering by the Kimberley High Court. The ANC's Deputy Secretary Alvin Botes was acquitted of all char...

Judgment has been reserved in the case brought by the DA to have the appointment of Hlaudi Motsoeneng as the permanent COO of the SABC declared irrational. Judge Dennis Davis says he will take some time to rule on the matter. The DA says Communications Minister Faith Muthambi acted illegally in appointing Motsoeneng, despite the findings of the Public Protector that he had lied about his qualifica...

The National Police Commissioner, General Riah Phiyega, has been suspended with immediate effect. Her suspension follows recommendations by a Board of Inquiry into allegations of misconduct, her fitness to hold office and her capacity to execute official duties efficiently. Phiyega has been under fire for the police shooting of 34 miners at Marikana in 2012. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Marikana Defen...

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Motorist and commuters are urged to avoid the M1 this morning as the highway is closed. This comes after the collapse of a bridge on the M1/Grayston interchange. At least two people are confirmed dead and 20 injured. Sakina speaks to Murry & Roberts CEO Henry Laas

Two weeks after he was kicked out of his home, a Western Cape farm labourer, will know this morning if he and his family can go back to the farm on which he had lived for 23 years. The Constitutional Court will deliver judgement in an interim relief application. Karel Snyders approached the highest court in the land on an urgent basis after he and his family were evicted on the first of this month...

Cape Town High Court Judge Dennis Davis has questioned how Communications Minister Faith Muthambi could appoint Hlaudi Motsoeneng as permanent SABC COO even though he admitted to being dishonest. Davis is hearing the case brought by the DA to declare Muthambi's appointment of Motsoeneng irrational. Joseph Mosia reports...

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To get a reaction from the Commission for Gender Equality, Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Javu Baloyi, Spokesperson for the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE).

A new controversial painting by Artist, Ayanda Mabulu has set tongues wagging. In it, Mabulu depicts President Jacob Zuma and a young woman in a fallacious position. Its further shows the woman in another sexual position at the same time with a man dressed in old colonial garb. For the artist, the work defines our current political situation. It's a metaphor for his opinion that the country is bei...