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Lily Gold Mine management near Barberton in Mpumalanga says it will take them 14 days to resume rescue operations underground. This after operation to find three trapped mine workers were stopped due to rock fall at the mine over the weekend. The workers are believed to be in a container which was used a their work station. The announcement was made last night at a joint media briefing with AMCU a...

1. Inflation and Retail sales data released yesterday, both came in higher than expected. What does that say about local economic conditions? 2. High inflation and low growth - is this what is meant with the term 'stagflation'? 3. If we lose our sovereign credit rating, what alternatives do we have as a country, to source loans or capital inflows?

Lily Gold Mine management near Barberton in Mpumalanga says it will take them 14 days to resume rescue operations underground. This after operation to find three trapped mine workers were stopped due to rock fall at the mine over the weekend. The workers are believed to be in a container which was used a their work station. The announcement was made last night at a joint media briefing with AMCU a...

The inquiry into the collapse of the temporary bridge over the M1 at Grayston Drive in Johannesburg will resume again in April. On Tuesday - stakeholders submitted administrative reports where it was revealed that there may have been bolts missing on the temporary scaffolding structure that collapsed onto the highway in October last year. Two people were killed and 19 injured. The inquiry has been...

1. Anglo American released very disappointing results yesterday. What does this mean for the organization and for jobs in South Africa? 2. SAA has requested an extension from parliament to table its annual report from February to March. How does this impact on parliamentary oversight?

A treatment to help the immune system fight cancer could soon be a reality. Scientists in the United States say they have found exceptional results with modified T-Cells for patients who would normally have just months to live. Researchers say they witnessed symptoms in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia disappear completely. Dr Carl Albrecht, Associate Researcher in the Biochemistry Depa...

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources, Sahlulele Luzipo, says he is satisfied with level of commitment by Lily Mine management on finding the three missing miners. Luzipo met with the mine management, families of the trapped mineworkers and the Department of Mineral Resources on site for an inspection yesterday. The three have been trapped underground since 5 February.

1. Rating's agency Moody's was back in the news yesterday when they announced that they have further downgraded the expected GDP growth of South Africa. Is this a surprise? 2. Yesterday we spoke about oversupply in commodity markets as being one of the major driving forces of lower prices. The agreement between Russia and Saudi Arabia on capping oil output, will this boost oil prices? 3. Also maki...

Opposition parties have torn into President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address. They were taking part in a debate in Parliament on the State of the Nation Address which President Zuma delivered last week. They've expressed concern about government's handling of the economy. Zalene Merrington reports.

One person has been arrested following violent clashes between police and protesting University of Cape Town students last night. Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of students on the main campus. Police were called in, to help a private company demolish a shack erected by members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Lyndon Khan reports from the university..

Zimbabwe police say its still assessing the matter of a dead body found in a compartment on a South African bound cargo plane. The U.S based private plane was enroute from Germany to South Africa when a technical fault forced it to land in Zimbabwe. Blood was seen coming from a crevice on a side of the plane and the body of man was found. The plane was hired by the South African Reserve Bank to ca...

Afribusiness says President Jacob Zuma is creating more investment uncertainty with his land reform plan outlined in last Thursday's State of the Nation Address. Afribusiness says this undermines the constitutional right to own property and they will fight this all the way to the Constitutional Court. Sakina kamwendo spoke to the spokesperson for AfriBusiness, Stefan Pieterse...

Parliament has confirmed that both EFF and COPE MPs will take part this afternoon in the debate of President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address. This is despite both parties disrupting the president's address last week. Members of these two parties were ordered by the presiding officers to leave the chamber after continuously disrupting the address. Lulama Matya reports

KwaZulu-Natal police say investigations are underway in the case of a woman allegedly found in possession of boxes containing anti-retroviral medication. Last week, forty-year-old Nomvuso Gloria Sithole, briefly appeared in the eMpangeni magistrate's court in northern KwaZulu-Natal, on a charge of theft and illegal possession of a schedule 4 prescribed drug. Nonkululeko Hlophe reports

1. The market rallied very strongly for the second day in a row yesterday. What was behind this latest move? 2. Late yesterday we received news that Anglo American has been cut to so-called junk status by rating's agency Moody's, yet this has been one of the best performing shares year-to-date, so why the downgrade? 3. So it all comes back to commodity prices once again. But is this all just due t...

The inter ministerial task team has had a series of meetings getting first hand information and also assessing the situation at Lily Gold Mine near Barberton, Mpumalanga. The team arrived at the mine this week following another collapse of two rocks into the shaft, in which the three mine staff members are still trapped under ground. The mine management described the weekend incident as the ongoin...

The lawfulness of a disciplinary process against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe will be argued in the Supreme Court of Appeal today. The case is being brought by Constitutional Court Justices, Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta. The two were initially meant to be the principal witnesses against Hlophe at a Judicial Tribunal hearing. They have since lost their arguments at the tribunal and in...

The City of Cape Town's Environmental Management spokesperson, Gregg Oelofse, says there's no specific reason why whales have been beaching along the Cape coastline in the past three months. This comes after the carcass of a six metre long Southern Right whale calf was found on the rocks at Bantry Bay, Sea Point along the Atlantic Seabord yesterday. Corbin August reports..

Democratic Alliance Federal Council that met in Cape Town over the weekend is fully backing DA MP and former Prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach who is facing criminal charges for contravening the NPA Act and defeating the ends of Justice. The NPA says it has a winnable case to successfully prosecute Breytenbach who appear in the Pretoria Magistrates Court today. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercede...

The Johannesburg Central police Station is calling for members of the community who are keen to help fight crime, to join them as informers. Warrant Officer Xoli Mbele says accepted applicants will undergo training and be incentivised.

President Jacob Zuma has assigned various Ministers to urgently assist families of miners who are still trapped at Lily Farm in Barberton. Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, the Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women,Susan Shabangu and the Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini are expected to put their heads together and provide support to the affected familie...

Lily Mine rescue efforts for three trapped miners have been suspended following another collapse at the mine on yesterday afternoon. Additional Mine engineers have arrived at the Lily gold mine between Louws Creek and Barberton to conduct assessments at the mine. The miners were trapped when a container serving as a lamp room collapsed into a large sinkhole at the mine shaft a week ago. Vusi Twala...

1. Last week continued to be extremely volatile on global markets, but at least we managed to finish the week of on a very strong note. Do you think the bounce that we've seen is sustainable? 2. Chinese markets were closed for the whole week for the Chinese New Year - should we expect them to be in catch-up mode this week, or will they lead the action once again? 3. Coming back home - last week we...

A church in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape has raised eyebrows after allegations that it has violated children's rights surfaced. Community members have called for law enforcement agencies to intervene. It is believed that more than 20 children at the church are not allowed to go to school while parents who are members of the church are forced to resign from work. Nkululeko Nyembezi reports

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