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[TOP STORY] Calm descends on Cape Town taxi strike

‘It has been said since Friday, if we can see peace, we’re happy to negotiate and hopefully today we can start to put that back on the table,’ says Western Cape Premier, Alan Winde.

8 Aug 2023 6AM 8 min

Samwu denies taking part in wildcat Tshwane strike

A roundup of news, including an interview with the Western Cape Premier on the taxi strike in Cape Town. A look at warnings from the Banking Ombudsman on the rise in digital fraud, and SAMWU on the dismissal of municipal workers in the City of Tshwane.

8 Aug 2023 3AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Eskom whistleblower fears for her life

‘I do feel that danger is imminent in that the hitman had personal information of mine. He knows where I live,’ says former forensic manager at Eskom, Dorothy Mmushi.

7 Aug 2023 5AM 8 min

Western Cape taxi strike escalates

A round up of news including the latest on the taxi strike in the Western Cape. A look at prospects for coalition governments ahead of next year’s elections, a former Eskom forensic investigator on widespread corruption at the power utility and the dangers of doing the job.

7 Aug 2023 3AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Grave concern for free and fair Zimbabwean elections

‘Traditional chiefs were going to commandeer people under them to do what they call command voting, where the traditional leader in that area will frogmarch people under them to a polling station and watch over them as they cast their vote,’ says Human Rights Watch senior researcher, Idriss Nassah.

4 Aug 2023 3AM 6 min

Employee burnout is a ticking timebomb

A roundup of news, including why rights organisations are concerned about Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections. A look at a new virtual tool launched to track political party funding, the impact of burnout on the workforce and a glimpse at Rugby coach Rassie Erasmus's new book.

4 Aug 2023 2AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] UIF: 115 Ters fraud cases still under investigation

‘So I think for us, this is us sending a message to all and sundry who might want to defraud any state institution, not only UIF, that the law of this country will catch up with you,’ says UIF Commissioner, Teboho Maruping.

3 Aug 2023 8AM 7 min

Women's football desperately needs sponsors

A round-up of news updates, including an update on work being done to punish those implicated in defrauding the UIF Ters. A look at more initiatives by the business sector to support government and how much legal trouble is Donald Trump in?

3 Aug 2023 3AM 31 min

Zama zamas are terrorists – Lesufi

‘We just need a combination of all the law enforcement agencies and go down there, flush out those people, let the last man stand, so that we can be in a position to close down those mines and reuse them either for housing, sporting facilities and community facilities,’ says Gauteng…

2 Aug 2023 6AM 12 min

Stubbornly low growth impeding NDP's success

A roundup of news updates, including a conversation with Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi on Gauteng’s jobs initiative. A look at whether South Africa is on track to achieving its National Development Plan goals and why the City of Tshwane is asking residents to avoid burning waste.

2 Aug 2023 3AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] The 'fly in the ointment' in government's Energy Action Plan

‘What should have happened between last July and today, Gwede Mantashe’s department should have invited another bid round, bid round seven, but they should have dealt with the problems that they experienced in bid round six,’ says energy analyst Hilton Trollip.

1 Aug 2023 6AM 7 min

Eskom using technology to fight cable theft

A round up of news updates, including a look at the latest Sweep South report on domestic workers' working conditions. A look at what's behind the surge in cable theft and the Public Protector’s Phala Phala report to be challenged in court.

1 Aug 2023 3AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] Limpopo liquor traders prepare to oppose midnight ban

‘To punish liquor traders and take two hours as a means of fighting crime, in the absence of any scientific evidence that points to the fact that if you remove two hours from trading per day, then we're going to fight crime, then it's a questionable proposition,’ says National Liquor…

31 Jul 2023 6AM 6 min

‘Litigation will hinder political party fundraising’

A roundup of news updates, including a look at the impact of Limpopo’s proposal to ban alcohol sales after midnight. Insights on why Action SA is opposing some political party funding, how local laws could impact Agoa, and the EFF's 10-year anniversary function raises concerns over attendees' conflict of interest.

31 Jul 2023 3AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] Is the Just Energy Transition at the expense of an entire province?

‘Looking at the economics of it all, if you are taking away an industry that basically employs 90 000 direct workers and then you have a multiplier effect also, what are you going to replace it with,’ says independent energy economist, Lungile Mashele.

28 Jul 2023 5AM 6 min

‘Putin using Russia-Africa summit to facilitate his own interests’

A roundup of news updates, including a look at the ANC’s failure to maintain independence between party and state. A look at whether South Africa’s energy transition is just and on World Nature Conservation Day we take a look at the impact of waste management on the environment.

28 Jul 2023 3AM 33 min

[TOP STORY] Rising trend in solar panel theft

‘It's high on the theft list and we see an increase in these incidents. I don't think it's going to become less; I think it's just going to become more,’ says Wynand van Vuuren, client experience partner at King Price Insurance.

27 Jul 2023 6AM 6 min

Current tobacco bill will cripple informal traders' livelihoods

A roundup of news updates, including a look at what's behind the increase in solar panel theft in SA. City of Tshwane municipal workers continue their fight for higher wages and the impact of truck attacks on the citrus sector.

27 Jul 2023 3AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] E-tolls: Calls for business and society to stop paying

‘They cannot blacklist, they cannot withhold your driver's licence, vehicle licences, they tried all of those threats, even criminal records. We fought every single one of those and showed the public that they are misleading the public,’ says OUTA CEO, Wayne Duvenage.

26 Jul 2023 6AM 7 min

‘Twitter unlikely to lose users over rebrand’

A roundup of news updates, including a look at how much longer motorists will have to pay e-tolls despite the ANC announcing they would be scrapped.

26 Jul 2023 3AM 33 min