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Daily English South Africa News · Daily News
1,663 Episodes
1552 – 1572

A matric certificate is not your only option

While SA celebrates its increased matric pass rate, a proportion of the country's youth will not get a matric certificate or be accepted into a university.Which raises the question: what next?Jan Badenhorst is the CEO of Skills Academy, which offers distance learning courses to people who did not complete matric…
8 Jan 2020 7AM 4 min

ENERGY EXPERT - Prepare to start producing your own power

Eskom is failing - and a successful South Africa depends on moving on to other power suppliers. This is the view of energy experts, as the embattled power utility announced on Monday evening that stage 6 load-shedding would be implemented for the first time - meaning longer and more frequent…
11 Dec 2019 7AM 5 min

Zozibini Tunzi message to SA after being crowned Miss Universe

There was jubilation, tears, shouts of joy and excitement as Miss South Africa 2019, Zozibini Tunzi, was crowned Miss Universe at the Tyler Perry Studios is Atlanta last night. It’s a huge leap for the humble girl from Tsolo who grew up amid great poverty in a rural part of…
9 Dec 2019 1AM 1 min

NPA is confident it will get a conviction against Julius Malema for firearm incident

EFF leader Julius Malema allegedly discharged a firearm in public during his party's fifth anniversary celebrations in July last year. The incident took place at the Sisa Dukashe Stadium in the Eastern Cape.The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said in a statement that Malema faced five counts, including the unlawful possession…
29 Nov 2019 5AM 2 min

Extreme weather could put SA's food and water security at risk, says climatologist

The Wits Global Change Institute’s Prof Francois Engelbrecht warns that global warming is having a visibly devastating affect on the African continent. He stresses that, as carbon dioxide concentrations increase globally, SA will need to prepare for more frequent and intense droughts that may put the country's food and water…
25 Nov 2019 6AM 4 min

"It's a waste of time" - Julius Malema on assault charges

EFF leader Julius Malema said on Wednesday that a common assault case against him and party spokesperson Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi was “useless” and a waste of time. Malema and Ndlozi are accused of assaulting a police officer at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral in April 2018.
19 Nov 2019 1AM 4 min

Global banks were 'complicit' in aiding state capture - Peter Hain

International banks were "complicit" in helping the state capture project by the Gupta family. And they cannot claim ignorance of their role in enabling state capture under former president Jacob Zuma. This is according to Lord Peter Hain who on Monday testified at the commission of inquiry into state capture…
18 Nov 2019 9AM 2 min

AfriForum to help catch Senzo Meyiwa's killer

Private prosecutor Gerrie Nel has agreed to assist in the unsolved murder case of Orlando Pirates and Bafana Bafana player, Senzo Meyiwa. The renowned advocate's involvement was announced on Tuesday by AfriForum's Kallie Kriel, who said they took on the case following a request from the Meyiwa family. Speaking alongside…
5 Nov 2019 5AM 3 min

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
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