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Q4 unemployment rate unchanged

Statistics South Africa has released the results of Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) 4th Quarter of 2019. According to the report, the number of people unemployed still remained at 26.1 % compared to the third quarter of 2019. On line is Acting Chief Director of Labour Statistics, Malerato Mosiane

11 Feb 2020 9AM 5 min

Green Peace Africa wants CR to unite Africa on climate

Green Peace Africa has called on incoming African Union Chair (AU) president Cyril Ramaphosa to seize the opportunity to unify the continent on climate change. The continent has been faced with devastating consequences of climate, with droughts and loss of lives. On line is Green Peace Africa Political Advisor, Happy…

11 Feb 2020 9AM 11 min

HRW wants CR to champion human rights

Human Rights Watch has asked president Cyril Ramaphosa to prioritise rights and accountability in his new role as chairperson of the Africa Union. The rights group want Rmaphosa to use the opportunity to focus on promoting human rights. On line is Africa Advocacy Director at Human Rights Watch, Carine Kaneza…

10 Feb 2020 9AM 8 min

CR criticises Trump's peace plan

President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised president Trump's Middle East Plan, comparing its contents to that of Bantustan system in apartheid South Africa. Ramaphosa was speaking at the AU summit in Ethiopia. And on line for analysis is Researcher at Afro Middle East Centre, Matshidiso Motsoneng.

10 Feb 2020 9AM 10 min

Media Hit Parade

We are back with our weekly media Hit Parade with Acumen Media Director, Tonya Khoury.

7 Feb 2020 10AM 15 min

Book Review: Letters Home

In 1961 Jolyon Nuttall was sent to New York for 12 months as a foreign correspondent for his South African newspaper. This Book is a detailed life of Jolyon in a strange city in a new world and his relations with Japanese woman Misa Ban. “Letters Home “ was first…

7 Feb 2020 10AM 11 min

Neil Aggett inquest

Testimony in the reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett has continued in the Johannesburg high court. Aggett was found hanged in his cell on February 5, 1982. An inquest later that year exonerated his interrogators and ruled his death was suicide. On line is activist…

7 Feb 2020 9AM 9 min

Middle East Report

This week marks the start of our Middle East report, we will begin with Arab League summit in Cairo at which Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestinian Authority was cutting security ties with both the US and Israel. The moves comes after Trump's announcement of the “deal of the century”…

6 Feb 2020 10AM 15 min

Weekly Africa Report

In this week's Africa report, Malawi opposition have hailed a unanimous ruling by the country's constitutional court for new presidential election after annulling last year's disputed vote. In Kenya, second president Daniel arap Moi has died aged 95. Moi came to power in 1979 following the death of Jomo Kenyatta…

5 Feb 2020 10AM 13 min

World Economic Report

In this week's economic report, we look at the corona virus and its impact to the global economy. An estimated 0.2 percent would be wiped out from the global economy as the disease rages on. So can China handle the economic turmoil of its viral outbreak.? On the continent, Kenya's…

4 Feb 2020 10AM 13 min

Stats SA conducts National Household Travel Survey 2020

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) is conducting the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS2020) and will visit 65, 000 dwellings across the country's 52 districts. The research, which is one of the country;s sample surveys, is funded by the Department of Transport. On line is Project Director at NHTS, Solly Molayi.

4 Feb 2020 9AM 8 min

SA women held in Syria want to come home

More than 20 widows of South African men who died in Syria fighting for international terror group Islamic State want to be repatriated back to South Africa. The women left the country to join their husbands who were fighting in Syria and other Middle East countries. On line is South…

4 Feb 2020 9AM 4 min

Middle East Peace Plan: annexation plan

As US president Donald Trump pushes on with Middle East Peace Plan, Palestinians will never be convinced a deal with Israel is worth making if annexation is packaged as peace. The deal, which does not meet the rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people, has been condemned by world leaders…

3 Feb 2020 10AM 9 min

Update: Coronavirus

What is the latest Coronavirus telling us about emerging new infections? It is estimated that 89 percent of one particular family of virus, known as RNA virus are zoonitic in origin. But to tell us more on them latest development is Director, Research Development and Principal Investigator, Molecular Biology and…

3 Feb 2020 9AM 8 min

Further public participation required to select WC Child Commissioner

The Parliamentary Committee on Social Development last week made public the names of 15 people who have been short listed to be interviewed for the role of the first ever Western Cape Commissioner for Children. On line is Director at Molo Songololo, Patric Solomon.

3 Feb 2020 9AM 12 min

Book Review: EB Koybie, a memoir of shenanigans between Durban and Mumbai

In this part memoir and part satire, Ebrahim Essa chronicles a quirky childhood growing up in the 1950s in an Indian township on the outskirts of the South African port city of Durban. About the author: Ebrahim Essa is a comic-book and Hindi film aficionado based in Durban. He taught…

31 Jan 2020 10AM 15 min

Is SA adequately prepared to handle coronavirus outbreak?

So news came through late last night that the World Health Organisation has declared the coronavirus as a global health emergency. Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million people where the virus emerged late last year, is now under effective lockdown. At least 213 people have died in China and…

31 Jan 2020 9AM 13 min

Media Review Network rejects Trump's “Scam of Century”

Media Review Network (MRN) , BDS South Africa and several civil organisations have joined millions of Palestinians in rejecting the immoral and indecent deal, labelled by Trump as “Deal of the Century.” The 'deal” unilaterally legalizes the annexation of Palestinian lands on which illegal structures have been built. On line…

30 Jan 2020 10AM 15 min

FAO warns of food security as locusts ravage Horn of Africa

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned that rising numbers of Desert Locusts present an extremely threat to food security and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa. According to latest update on the Locust upsurge, the current situation would further worsen with new breeding. On line from Kenya…

30 Jan 2020 9AM 5 min

Charter Institute conference

The inaugural Charter Cities Conference being hosted in Johannesburg is gearing towards emerging economies and nations that are undergoing rapid urbanisation on the African continent. Its estimated that Africa's population will grow from its 1.2 billion to 4.5 billion in the next 80 years. To explain this is Executive Director…

30 Jan 2020 9AM 8 min