Update@Noon

Mohammed Nalla, analyst at Nedbank Capitals looks at 1.Lots of SA data yesterday somewhat upbeat ... 2.Rand supported after a brief foray weaker yesterday. What is the outlook 3.US GDP for 3rd quarter up by 3.5%

** ICBC ( Industrial and Commercial Bank of China ) Posts Biggest Jump in Bad Loans Since ’06 on Economy ** Zambia not at ease with Guy Scott as interim president for 3 months ** Thursday investment destination – India

The search for Bafana Bafana and Orlando Pirates captain Senzo Meyiwa's killers is continuing. Police are yet to arrest anyone for the murder that happened on Sunday evening. Yesterday police released a 3D identikit of two of the three suspects.

In Nigeria, Stallion Motors unveiled one of its locally assembled Hyundai models at another interactive session with automobile media in Lagos. The Ethiopian Electric Power headed by Engineer Azeb Asnake signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a US-based company Green Technology Africa Inc. (GTA) to generate 300MW of solar energy.

** The Federal Reserve has officially announced an end to its quantitative easing bond-buying program ** Expectations for PPI, unemployment and SA budget data all out today ...

On the Forum@8 this morning we look at the gender agenda. Where are women placed in the structures of our society? Are they just mothers, domestic workers and PA's or are we seeing them as leaders? The progress of women towards decision making positions in business, government, and academia continues to provoke debate. What will it take for us as South Africa to drive the gender agenda? Is it enou...

Small business development minister Lindiwe Zulu, addressed the summit and expressed concern over the statistics showing that almost 80 percent of small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) fail in their first year.

The Road Accident Fund says it has paid out well over over R22 billion to road accident survivors in the 2013/14 financial year and also reports that the number of people arrested for defrauding the Fund rose from 290 to 478 in the 2013/14 financial year.

The ANC has denied assertions made by NUMSA, that the country's poor and working class had lost faith in the party.

** Patchy US data yesterday doesn't seem to be scaring markets yet. ** Eyes on US Federal reserve today as they look to end quantitative easing and hint to "policy normalization' time frame ** Sasol's R8 billion investments into a US plant roughly the size of Secunda

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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 State will appeal both the conviction and the sentence in the Oscar Pistorius trial. Judge Thokozile Masipa, sentenced Pistorius to five years in prison last week, for culpable homicide. The paralympian admitted to shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, after mistaking her for an intruder. Steenkamp died on Valentine morning last year. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to National Prosecuting Authority...

Clive Ramathibela , Managing Member at Inkunzi Investments looks at: 1. Asian markets struggle to keep up momentum as worse than expected U.S data disappoints investors 2. Japan’s retail sales increase most in four months providing signs of recovery following the sales tax increment 3. China’s fake invoicing evidence increasing putting a dark cloud over transparency in reported trade data

Mohammed Nalla from Nedbank Capitals looks at: 1. Twitter falls 10% as user growth slows 2. Oil glut may help support global economy 3. Eyes on SA unemplpoyment today

The Department of Trade and Industry has announced the release of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Act No. 46 of 2013. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says the operation of the Act is necessary in order to enable the department to perform some of the functions embedded in the Act. He says that it is also imperative for the development of subordinate legislatio...

Clive Ramathibela, managing member at Inkunzi investments looks at : 1. Asian markets raise as optimism is raised by financial health test in Eurozone 2. Mario Draghi sets stimulus pace for the ECB 3. Chinese mix economic data are starting to affect investor confidence

Police are offering a 150-thousand-rand reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the killers of Bafana Bafana captain Senzo Meyiwa. The 27-year-old goalkeeper was shot last night during a burglary at a house in Vosloorus, south of Johannesburg. They say three men entered the house and one of them demanded Meyiwa's phone. There was an altercation and a shot was fired. sakina Kamwendo...

Senzo Robert Meyiwa born on the 24 of September 1987 in the township of Umlazi on the south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. He joined the Orlando Pirates reserve side also known Yebo Yes at the age of 13 and was promoted to the first team on the first of July in 2005. During his nine year spell in the Premier Soccer League, Meyiwa had represented Pirates 157 times including last night's 4-1 win over A...

The public protector Thuli Madonsela, has decided to take on review, part of the judgement by Judge Asthon Schippers in the Western Cape High Court on Friday last week, with regard to the constitutional powers of the Public Protector. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo speaks to spokesperson for the office of the Public Protector Oupa Segalwe and conditional law expert Pier de Vos on the powers of the o...

Mohammed Nalla , analyst at Nedbank Capitals looks at: 1. European bank stress tets results better than expeccted. 2. Brazilian election win for Rouseff 3. US reporting season thus far quite upbeat

In 1994 South Africa became a democracy; the African National Congress has been at the helm of the country's government and wields much political power. We have since talked about the shift of the economic power which still sits in the hands of the minority to the majority through radical economic transformation … We can see traces of the previous administration of the apartheid government through...

Clive Ramathibela, managing member at Inkunzi investments looks at: 1. Green, Green, Green, Asian markets follow strong US markets as they rally regaining some of the losses from last week 2. A weekend of protesting around the world, South Africa – e Tolling, UK – Government Employees, Italy – Illegal Immigrants, France – Gay rights activists, Hong Kong, China – Democratic rights 3. Japan’s Minist...

Police say an ongoing investigation into mall robberies has revealed that there are several groups involved. The police say they have already linked four people previously arrested in separate incidents to eight other cases. Most recently, on Friday, seven people were arrested in connection with two separate incidents whereby a Telkom store at Irene Mall was robbed, and a shoot-out took place betw...

Reeva Steenkamp's father, Barry, has said they are glad they only have to wait until tomorrow, to find out what will happen to their daughter's killer. Judge Thokozile Masipa will sentence the former international icon, Oscar Pistorius, found guilty of culpable homicide after shooting four bullets through a locked toilet door and killing Steenkamp. He was also convicted for the reckless and neglig...