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The Municipal Demarcation Board is set to delimit metropolitan municipalities, local municipalities and wards. The board has completed its public consultative process on the ward delimitations for the 2016 local elections. It will soon be publishing the first set of its delimitations in the Provincial Gazettes. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the Municipal Demarcation Board chairperson, Jane Thupana

A listener sent us a message this morning asking about the trains that were torched last night at Germiston Train station. Sfiso wanted to know if communters are safe . To get the details Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the Metrorail spokesperson Lillian Mofokeng

Efforts by the nine unions to try to debate the return of Numsa at Cosatu special congress was unsuccessful. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Numsa's Deputy General Secretary Karl Cloete to give us his reaction to what transpired at the congress

Two doctors and a nurse from KwaZulu-Natal state hospitals, north of Durban, have been suspended after a critically injured patient died because they were allegedly bickering over which hospital should treat him. MEC S'bongiseni Dhlomo is to report the incident to professional bodies, which will be able to determine if they acted negligently. Meanwhile, a private ambulance service operating in Ver...

South Africa is looking to China to address problems in its state-owned-enterprises. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is on an official visit to China. Ramaphosa is being accompanied by two cabinet ministers and four deputy ministers. Most of China's state-owned enterprises are partially publicly listed with interests in real estate, the financial sector and rail. Ramaphosa says government is also...

1. D-DAY FOR GREEK PARLIAMENT 2. STARBUCKS COMING TO SA ... 3. CHINA GROWTH BEATS ESTIMATES AS STIMULUS KICKS IN

A police station that should have cost 52 million rand, is costing taxpayers an additional 54 million rand! The Diepsloot police station, north of Johannesburg was expected to take 3 years to build. However, 8 years later, it is yet to open it's doors to the public. Diepsloot has one of the highest crime rates in Gauteng and residents had hoped the new police station will help increase police visi...

1. Asian stocks rose a fourth day amid relief over Greece's debt deal 2. U.S. stocks rose, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index posting its best three-day rally this year 3. China bigger worry for SA than Greece

Fighting in Burundi is intensifying. According to reports, Burundi's army has killed more than 30 rebels and 170 others have been captured in the north of the country. This comes amid increased political unrest following President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid to run for a third term. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Dr Yolande Bouka, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies based in Nairobi

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COSATU unions sympathetic to expelled general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi and NUMSA suffered massive defeats at the COSATU special national Congress. In the end it all came down to numbers - and they lost in the votes on the credentials and agenda. They pushed hard - forcing the debate to come to a vote. It was a dramatic day with the media kicked out of the congress during the heated debates - an u...

China has offered to develop South Africa's skills capacity in nuclear technology with no conditions. This emerged during the South Africa-China bilateral talks held in Beijing. China and Russia have surfaced as the leading bidders for our nine thousand six hundred megawatt nuclear power project. According to the deputy minister of Trade and Industry Mzwandile Masina the offer is not conditional....

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni will be in Burundi's capital on Tuesday to try to bridge a political impasse that has seen two United Nations-appointed mediators fail before him. Skirmishes between the army and armed groups near the border with Rwanda, increased grenade attacks in the capital and the continued outflow of refugees to neighbouring countries has confirmed the UN view that the coun...

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1. GREEK PRIME MINISTER ALEXIS TSIPRAS SEEMINGLY CAPITULATED TO SEAL A DEAL. BUT WILL IT PASS GREEK PARLIAMENT ? 2. IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL APPEARS IMMINENT 3. MACRO FOCUS TO SHIFT TO FED CHAIR JANET YELLEN'S TESTIMONY LATER THIS WEEK

Cosatu President Sdumo Dlamini says they've put up measures to deal with possible disruptions at their two-day Special National Congress starting this morning at Midrand's Gallagher Estate. The meeting is convened at the request of a third of the labour federation's affiliates who say they are unhappy at the current leadership and its inability to implement programmes agreed to at the last ordinar...

Resident market analyst Clive Ramathibela talks about Asian stocks advance as investors weigh progress in Greece talks, China's exports rise in another sign of stabilizing economy and Australia's Prime Minister Abbott, Bans fund from wind farm investment

A young white initiate has just graduated from boyhood to manhood at Centane in the Eastern Cape. Seventeen year-old Estiaan Swanepoel says despite criticism over the initiation ritual, he chose to be a man by going through the Xhosa ritual. He was welcomed by locals and parents in a ceremony held at Centane. Nkululeko Nyembezi reports

Market update with Mohammed Nalla looks at Greece - no resolution over the weekend, China trade data better but stocks still volatile and Iranians may close a deal with major powers

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Taxi services were halted yesterday after National Taxi Alliance announced that more than 50 impounded taxis would be released and fines scrapped. The taxis were impounded during Operation Fiela following days of violence in which four people were wounded and some Autopax passenger buses stoned. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to a taxi operator in Mamelodi Phuti Tlhwaele...

Lewis Stores and Monarch Insurance are in hot water for allegedly selling loss-of-employment insurance cover to pensioners and self-employed consumers. The National Credit Regulator (NCR) has taken up the matter with National Consumer Tribunal for further investigation. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the National Credit Regulator's Secretary Lesiba Mashapa...

Divisions within the ANC-led tripartite alliance over e-tolls have played themselves out at the SACP's special national congress in Soweto. Labour federation Cosatu remains adamant that either the system be scrapped, or that government uses the fuel levy to maintain the roads. However deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that a higher fuel levy will have consequences for workers who largely...

Earlier this week on the forum@8 we discussed botched circumcisions and how do we curb it...Now, the Deputy minister of Traditional Affairs Deputy Minister Obed Bapela is in the Eastern Cape. Where a young man has lost his manhood and four others critically in hospital. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the Deputy minister Obed Bapela...

1. With all the focus on Greece and Chinese markets this week, we haven't really spoken about indicators in the US. What is latest from the Fed and their plan to increase interest rates in the US? 2. At the last local MPC meeting, governor Kganyago gave a stern warning that we should expect local rates to increase sooner rather than later. Do you think that events of the last few weeks may change...