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1. Asian stocks fell after U.S. shares declined amid mixed company earnings 2. The underlying issue of the "fees must fall" campaign and is there a solution - Twitter 3. What to expect from the midterm budget speech

Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande and various stakeholders have agreed to look into a fee increase not higher than the inflation rate of 6% for the 2016 academic year. Nzimande, various representatives of university vice chancellors and student representatives, met in Cape Town yesterday to find solutions to the increase in tertiary education fees. Our Parliamentary Corresponde...

Students' organisation, COSAS, will embark on a national protest in support of the 'Fees Must Fall Campaign' in tertiary institutions. The student union says hundreds of young people will march to the Department of Higher Education in Pretoria to demand free education. For more we are now joined on the line by COSAS Secretary-general, Khulekani Skosana

1. Today is mini-budget day, and as we focus on parliament and Min. Nene this afternoon, the latest domestic economic indicators point to a possible technical recession. What is your view - are we in a recession? 2. A few months ago it was announced that agreement had been reached between South Africa and the US around the poultry market, and how it affects AGOA, the African Growth and Opportunity...

Moscow is hosting a meeting of industry ministers of BRICS countries for the first time. The issued discussed include ways to strengthen co-operation between members as well as assistance to deal with common challenges. SABC's Julia Lyubova has more from the Russian capital.

Students from Wits University have rejected the agreement that tuition fee increases at tertiary institutions be capped at 6 percent. Higher Education Minister, Blade Nzimande made the announcement after a meeting with representatives of various universities in Cape Town yesterday. Wits students begun protesting last Wednesday over the proposed tuition increases of 10,5 percent at the institution....

Academic activities remain suspended at a number of universities due to rolling protests over proposed tuition fees increases. The affected institutions include the Universities of Cape Town, Wits, Rhodes, Stellenbosch and Fort Hare. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande held a meeting with the representatives of various universities in Cape Town yesterday (tuesday 20 October) to discuss the is...

Higher Education Minster Blade Nzimande will meet with representatives of various universities in Cape Town today to discuss tuition fee increases. The minister addressed the media in Pretoria yesterday about protests at a number of institutions over the proposed fee increases. Nzimande has appealed to the students to give efforts aimed at resolving their grievances a chance. He also says governme...

Minister of International Relations, Maite Nkoana- Mashabane says South Africa is working closely with the UK on a range of issues from security threats to scientific breakthroughs. Nkoana-Mashabane has been meeting with the UK's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in London for the bilateral forum between the two countries. UK correspondent Dan Whitehead reports

The ANC says South Africa will raise the plight of the Palestinians in all international forums as part of a letter of intent signed with HAMAS in Johannesburg yesterday. The leadership of Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS led by Khaled Meshaal met with the ANC on the invitation of the ruling party. The ANC says it will co-operate with the party to struggle against the oppression and occupation of...

Classes at Wits University have been suspended once again after violent protests erupted over a proposed increase in tuition fees. Angry students overturned a car that allegedly tried to run over some of the protesters and beat up the driver. They then blockaded Empire Road in Parktown after the university's Executive Council failed to meet with them. Students have been protesting at the campus si...

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The clock is ticking for a Western Cape farm manager after the Constitutional Court ordered that she take all necessary steps to help the Snyders family return to their home on the Voorbaat farm. The family complained that they were evicted without notice two weeks ago and have been forced to live in a drafty warehouse. The highest court in the land ordered that they be allowed to return, pending...

The City of Cape Town is expected to serve notices on various top police officials today to appear in court for breaching the Regulation of Gatherings Act. Mayoral Committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says a crime imbizo held by Police Minister Nathi Nhleko in Khayelitsha over the weekend was illegal. The meeting was called to discuss the implementation of recommendations of the Kha...

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...