Drivetime

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The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

9 Dec 2014 10AM 8 min

CIA detention and interrogation program report

The CIA is bracing for what could be one of the most damaging moments in its history: a public airing of its post-9/11 embrace of torture. The Senate intelligence committee is poised to release a landmark inquiry into torture as early as Tuesday, after the Obama administration made a last-ditch…

9 Dec 2014 10AM 17 min

Gift of the Givers

Yolande Korkie visualised embracing her husband Pierre on his return from Yemen, but instead felt intense pain as his remains arrived in the country this morning. She addressed the press in Johannesburg today and said that although the family has lost Pierre, they do not regret anything that happens because…

9 Dec 2014 9AM 7 min

Oscar Pistorius appeal

Today marks the 49th day of Oscar Pistorius’s prison sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and court has reconvened to decide whether his conviction and jail term can be appealed. The prosecutions aim is to argue "on a point of law" that the disgraced Paralympic athlete should not have…

9 Dec 2014 9AM 10 min

Inside Kenya's Death Squads

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has shed light on the mysterious extrajudicial killings that have been witnessed in the country. Speaking exclusively to Al Jazeera, officers from four units of Kenya’s counter-terrorism strategy admitted the police assassinate suspects on government orders. Today, Kenya’s police squads have admitted for the first time…

8 Dec 2014 10AM 15 min

Eskom

Earlier today, Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona briefed media on the power system and a forecast for the festive season.He apologized to the nation for the inconvenience of the past few weeks due to load shedding. Eskom has communicated for an extended period to South Africa that the power system is…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 4 min

The botched rescue mission

UK-born US journalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie have been killed by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen during a failed rescue bid. Saturday's operation was carried out by joint US and Yemeni special forces in the southern Shabwa region. US President Barack Obama condemned the "barbaric murder" of…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 12 min

Dewani a free man

Shrien Dewani is a free man after the Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of his application to be discharged of killing his wife Anni Hindocha. Dewani's lawyers brought the application last month in terms of Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act. This opened the way for a…

8 Dec 2014 9AM 11 min

What's trending

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

5 Dec 2014 10AM 6 min

Dr Sayyed Muhamed Shuaib

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

5 Dec 2014 10AM 20 min

Zwarte Piet

The Dutch festival of Sinterklaas on December 5th, the country’s most important children’s holiday, is turning into an annual slugfest of racial politics. The problem is the figure of Zwarte Piet, an impish clown with a black face who accompanies the bearded St Nicholas (“Sinterklaas”) on his rounds, distributing presents…

5 Dec 2014 9AM 8 min

One Mid-life Crisis and a Speedo

The midlife crisis syndrome is something every man and woman of a certain age recognises very well. When Darrel Bristor-Bovey realises that he’s going through the crisis, it leads to a bucket list of crazy things he wants to do – only problem is that he’s old and lazy. It’s…

5 Dec 2014 9AM 13 min

Mandela remembered: one year on

Today marks the first anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela’s death. Commemorations including blasting vuvuzelas are in full swing as they serve as reminders of his enormous legacy as an anti-apartheid icon and global beacon of hope

5 Dec 2014 9AM 6 min

US passes Israeli partnership bill

US lawmakers voted unanimously yesterday to pass legislation making Israel a “major strategic partner” of the United States, deepening a bilateral bond that has recently shown signs of strain. In a voice vote, the House approved the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014, which expands cooperation in defense and…

4 Dec 2014 10AM 18 min

Protests in US over chokehold death case

Yesterday, a Staten Island grand jury ended the criminal case against a white New York police officer whose chokehold on an unarmed black man led to the man’s death, a decision that drew condemnation from elected officials and touched off a wave of protests. The fatal encounter in July was…

4 Dec 2014 9AM 11 min

Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art sees double in 2014

The 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art exhibition is being showcased at Iziko Museums of South Africa and features Unrest, by twenty-eight-year-old twin brothers, Hasan and Husain Essop. The Essop twins’ series of work highlights a multi-cultural clash between religion and popular culture. They explore the dominating…

4 Dec 2014 9AM 8 min

Zuma to decide on Tshabalala suspension

It will be up to President Jacob Zuma to decide whether or not to suspend South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board chairperson, Ellen Tshabalala, who is been found guilty of misrepresenting her qualifications and lying about them under oath. Parliament’s Communications Portfolio committee finally concluded its inquiry into Tshabalala after…

4 Dec 2014 9AM 8 min

What's trending

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

3 Dec 2014 5PM 6 min

What's trending

The 4-6 pm current affairs Drivetime Show is hosted by veteran journalist Shafiq Morton, winner of two Vodacom Awards, and an AfriCAN author’s award. Analytical and thought-provoking, Morton brings his decades of experience as a photo-journalist, historian and broadcaster to the show, added with his unique brand of humour and…

3 Dec 2014 10AM 8 min

National Key Points to be made public

Police Minister Nkosinathi Nhleko has been given 30 days to hand over the national key points list to the Right2Know Campaign and SA History Archive. Judge Roland Sutherland said Nhleko’s refusal to release the list was unlawful and unconstitutional, and ordered the ministry to pay the legal costs of R2K…

3 Dec 2014 9AM 7 min