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4:28

Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega disagrees with some...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/27

National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega strongly disagrees with some of the findings of the Marikana report released by President Jacob Zuma last month. Phiyega has released a detailed statement in reaction to the findings and recommendations of the report. She says the insinuation that police management went to work on August 16, 2012 with murderous intent has no substance. For more on this we are joined on the line by Police spokesperson Lieutenant-General Solomon Makgale....

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3:00

@HononoAphiwe & @ Nkh3nsi a timeline into Bobbi...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/27

Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston, has died six months after suffering brain damage in an incident at her home. Aphiwe Honono and Nkensani Hlangwane filed this report.

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6:41

AMCU Pres Joseph Mathunjwa responds to Lonmin job cuts

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2015/07/24

Lonmin is set to shed six-thousand jobs, including contractors, as it's planning to close or mothball several mine shafts in South Africa. The platinum producer is reported to have told a union in a letter that four-thousand-500 members of the Lonmin workforce could be laid off. The union hasn't been named. Lonmin shares on the London Stock Exchange have fallen by more than seven percent to an all time low after the news. Lonmin and other platinum miners have been hit by rising costs and a plunge in

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Lonmins Spokesperson Sue Vey on job cuts

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2015/07/24

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11:44

Dr Mostoaledi Vs South African Medical Association...

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2015/07/22

The Department of Health recently suspended two doctors after they performed a Caesarean section on a teenager in a general ward at Evander Hospital in Mpumalanga. Ordinarily, this would have been performed in a theatre. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi opened a criminal case against the two doctors, saying they had "a tendency to disregard instructions with impunity". However, health union the South African Medical Association says the Ministers suggesions that the two face criminal charges before

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14:33

Adhoc committee on Nkandla Cedric Frolick & Prof...

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2015/07/22

Chairperson of the Nkandla ad hoc committee Cedrick Frolick has acknowledged that the much talked about "firepool" at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home is also a recreational facility. He made the remark after inspecting Zuma's private home. He quickly added that it could also be utilised to fight fires. Government has been at pains to explain why the firepool should be seen as a security feature meant to extinguish fires. Frolick has described today's visit by parliamentarians to Nkandla as an

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5:45

@sherwiebp on e re-establishment of diplomatic ties...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/20

A national flag bearing the colours blue, white and red will be raised in Washington later today and it's not the American flag. Cuba's 'standard' will for the first time in 54 years again fly outside the country's stately embassy in the U.S. capital to formally reflect the re-establishment of diplomatic ties between Havana and Washington. Some 500 guests including South Africa's Ambassador have been invited to Monday's event that will be followed by a historic joint press conference between the

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4:49

It's all systems go for tomorrow's controversial...

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2015/07/20

It's all systems go for tomorrow's controversial presidential elections in Burundi. Opposition politicians have accused President Pierre Nkurunziza of violating the constitution by running for a third term and are boycotting the vote. Last minute peace talks called to solve Burundi's political crisis were derailed yesterday following a boycott by the Burundi government. Dozens of people have already died in protests.

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9:14

RSR CEO Nkululeko Poyo preliminary report on Booysens...

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2015/07/20

The Railway Safety Regulator has just released its preliminary report into Friday's train accident in Booysens this afternoon. About 200 people were injured in that crash. The regulator has raised concern about the lack of maintance of ageing equipment. Metrorail is also expected to release details about it's investigation into the accident.

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10:04

Our reporter Witness Tiva & Vuwani Chief Masia on...

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2015/07/20

Protesting residents of Vuwani in Limpopo have handed a memorandum of their demands to the MEC for Health Dr Phophi Ramathuba in the area today. Ramathuba received the memorandum on behalf of premier Stan Mathabatha. Residents blockaded main roads demanding that the Municipal Demarcation Board reverse its decision to merge their area with Malamulele to form a new municipality.Ramathuba promised that she will deliver the petition to Mathabatha and the demarcation board.

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6:07

JHB EMS Spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi on the...

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2015/07/20

The City of Johannesburg's Emergency Services says striking fire-fighters are not affecting their services. The fire-fighters have vowed to continue clocking in at 8am and knocking off at 4pm, leaving stations understaffed for three hours until management takes their overtime grievances seriously. Joburg EMS's spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi, says they are using reservists to cover the three hours per day during which their fire-fighters are striking.

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6:31

#ArtsandCulture: @TsepisoMakwetla speaks to hous #43...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/15

In our Arts and Culture section this week.....Number 43, Trelawney Park, a modest house in a suburb of Manzini, Swaziland, was for many years a vital base of operations for the ANC. Told in the first person, Elias Masilela's book puts a tragic, and in some ways nostalgic, human face life in exile during the apartheid years. The book tells the stories of the ANC and PAC cadres who passed through Number 43, revealing their hopes and fears, and highlighting the high price that was paid for

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3:22

@TsepisoMakwetla chats to Cosatu Pres Sdumo Dlamini...

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2015/07/14

Numsa says Cosatu unions opposed to the expulsion of Numsa and former general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi are meeting today to chart a way forward after suffering massive losses at the Cosatu special national congress currently underway in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. They failed to push for the agenda of congress to include debate on the expulsions

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10:31

@TsepisoMakwetla speaks to POPCRU Pres Zimamele...

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2015/07/14

COSATU president Sdumo Dlamini says expelled affiliate NUMSA wants to destroy the federation. Dlamini called on affiliates supporting NUMSA to come back to the Central Executive Committee - they have been boycotting since NUMSA was booted out in November last year. But disgruntled unions also hit back during the open debate

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4:40

Gift of the Givers Imtiaz Sulliman on SA'ns arrested...

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2015/07/14

Negotiations are continuing between the embassies of South Africa and Britain and Chinese authorities over the arrests of 20 people - ten of them South Africans - in Inner Mongolia. Chinese authorities have accused them of having links to a terror organisation, but have since released eleven people. Five South Africans remain under arrest. According to the Gift of the Givers group the group was on a 47-day tour of ancient China when they were arrested.

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9:29

Dr Zweli Mkhize, Terry Bell and Steven Friedman on...

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2015/07/13

Cosatu's Special National Congress is expected go to vote on whether newly formed metalworkers union LIMUSA and Second Deputy President Zingiswa Losi stay in the Congress. It is understood that unions sympathetic to expelled NUMSA and general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi would not accept the credentials until LIMUSA and Losi are excluded. The Congress was discussing credentials behind closed doors after the media was asked to temporarily leave.

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4:29

young man lose manhood after botched circumcision

First Take SA ·

2015/07/09

Deputy minister of Traditional Affairs Deputy Minister Obed Bapela in the Eastern Cape after a a young man lost his manhood and four others critically in hospital following a botched circumcision

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3:37

14 000 illegal firearms destroyed in Vereeniging in...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/09

More than 14-thousand illegal firearms have been destroyed in Vereeniging in the Vaal Triangle. It's the second time a stash of guns has been destroyed by police this year. The initiative is aimed at making South Africa safer. Sashin Naidoo reports

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2:57

President Jacob Zuma has recommitted South Africa to...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/09

President Jacob Zuma has recommitted South Africa to the BRICS member states and undertaken to continue supporting businesses operating in South Africa by those from member states. He was speaking at the 7th BRICS summit in the city of Ufa in Russia.

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9:46

Vavi will not be an agenda item at Cosatu special...

First Take SA ·

2015/07/09

COSATU says it has it on good authority that there are plans to disrupt the much awaited Special National Congress next week. However it says all is in place to ensure it goes ahead as planned. PM Live host Tšepiso Makwetla speaks to COSATU President, Sdumo Dlamini.

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