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TimesLIVE - In The News

Podcasts and similar audio content from the Arena Holdings group, publishers of the Sunday Times, Business Day, The Times, Sowetan, etc.
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Keywords: podcast, multimedia, politics, entertainment, news and views, economy, South Africa
Daily English South Africa News · Daily News
1,663 Episodes
1560 – 1580

2019 Medium-term budget policy statement highlights

The medium-term budget policy statement delivered in parliament by Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, shows consolidated government expenditure will reach R6.3-trillion over the next three years. A staggering R796bn of this will be going towards servicing the country’s debt, which is now at R3-trillion and will balloon to R4.5-trillion in the…
30 Oct 2019 9AM 5 min

Police battle refugees during eviction of protesters in Cape Town

Police have arrested about 100 people in an altercation flowing from a court-ordered eviction to remove a group involved in a sit-in protest in Cape Town. About 300 refugees and asylum seekers have been occupying the Waldorf Arcade in St George's Mall, outside the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),…
30 Oct 2019 6AM 1 min

Excessive social media use is having an adverse effect on teen mental health

According to research published by American psychiatry journal, Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media are more likely to develop mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, feelings of self-consciousness and low self-esteem. In light of the research, Fourways-based non-profit Witkoppen Clinic has raised concerns…
28 Oct 2019 9AM 4 min

BOOK REVIEW | Yellow & Confused

Food blogger and activist Ming-Cheau Lin talks to Michele Magwood about her memoir Yellow & Confused, about growing up Chinese in Bloemfontein, and coming to terms with being a “Third Culture Kid”.
22 Oct 2019 5AM 21 min

Dros rapist sentenced to life imprisonment

Convicted rapist Nicholas Ninow's lawyer pleaded with the Pretoria high court to impose a lesser sentence than life imprisonment on Thursday. However, judge Papi Mosopa was not convinced by the mitigating circumstances that Ninow's defense presented, and found it fit to charge him to with life imprisonment.
17 Oct 2019 9AM 3 min

Dros rapist says the drugs and alcohol made him do it

Convicted Dros rapist Nicholas Ninow broke down in the dock of the Pretoria high court on Wednesday as he recalled his rape of a seven-year-old girl. Ninow says that he had been on a drug and alcohol binge for three days prior to the rape and that he recalled very…
16 Oct 2019 4AM 4 min

How the new demerit system for South African road users will effect you

The new demerit system for South African road users is now law. On 5 October, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said the official start date for the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences or AARTO law would soon be announced. He also added that the law will definitely be “in full…
11 Oct 2019 6AM 5 min

Duduzane's testimony day 2 - A victim of a “political storm”

Former president Jacob Zuma's son and Gupta business associate Duduzane Zuma says he is not corrupt, but is, instead, a victim of a “political storm” in SA. Zuma, who was being re-examined by his ownlegal representatives at the state capture inquiry on Tuesday, said he had suffered from the consequences…
8 Oct 2019 10AM 1 min

Duduzane's testimony day 1 - It never happened

It never happened. That was the gist of the testimony by a confident and elegantly dressed Duduzane Zuma who swanned into the state capture inquiry on Monday, ready with answers to a barrage of questions. Sunday Times political reporter Amil Umraw has been following the commission and provides us with…
7 Oct 2019 11AM 3 min

What impact will the Concourt ruling on spanking have on SA?

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court ruled that smacking a child is illegal, prompting reaction on all sides of South African society. The irreversible judgment has left some South African parents confused and conflicted about how best to raise well-behaved children. MultimediaLIVE spoke to the two opposing parties that argued the…
20 Sep 2019 2AM 5 min

Alan Paton award winning author Terry Kurgan

The 30th Alan Paton Award has been won by Terry Kurgan, for her moving family study Everyone Is Present. Michele Magwood spoke to her about photographs and memories.
19 Sep 2019 5AM 22 min

Nigerians leave SA after xenophobic violence

Busloads of Nigerians said their final goodbyes to South Africa on Wednesday morning. Despite staring poverty in the face, four busloads of people who had been confronted with violence in Johannesburg left from the Nigerian Consulate to begin the trip of approximately 7,000km to Nigeria. Ben Okoli from the Nigerian Citizen…
11 Sep 2019 6AM 2 min

SA torn over banning of apartheid-era flag

Gratuitous display of the apartheid-era flag demonstrates a total rejection of reconciliation and a clear intention to be hurtful and incite harm.This is according to Gauteng deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo.In an equality court matter on Wednesday, he found that displaying the old flag constituted prohibited hate speech, discrimination and…
22 Aug 2019 4AM 5 min

Audio leaves more questions on Sredojevic's exit from Pirates to Zamalek

Tiso Blackstar senior soccer reporter Marc Strydom in a telephonic conversation with former Orlando Pirates head coach Milutin Sredojevic. The Serbian coach quit his Pirates job in a huff on late night Friday August 16 2019. He cited personal reasons and said that he quit because he had to attend…
21 Aug 2019 6AM 1 min

Bracing for a robotic future

Not long ago, the idea was pure science fiction. But now the idea of mankind and robots combining to create super-intelligence is actually happening. But what does this mean for my job? That is the biggest concern for most people when they think of the encroachment of artificial intelligence in…
24 Jul 2019 11AM 25 min
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