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Alan Paton award winning author Terry Kurgan

The 30th Alan Paton Award has been won by Terry Kurgan, for her moving family study Everyone Is Present. Michele Magwood spoke to her about photographs and memories.

19 Sep 2019 5AM 22 min

Nigerians leave SA after xenophobic violence

Busloads of Nigerians said their final goodbyes to South Africa on Wednesday morning. Despite staring poverty in the face, four busloads of people who had been confronted with violence in Johannesburg left from the Nigerian Consulate to begin the trip of approximately 7,000km to Nigeria. Ben Okoli from the Nigerian Citizen…

11 Sep 2019 6AM 2 min

2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu has won the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for her novel The Theory of Flight. She tells Michele Magwood about her inspiration for the book and the writers that have influenced her.

9 Sep 2019 9AM 22 min

What Police Minister General Bheki Cele plans to do about violent looting in Gauteng

Businesses in the township of Alexandra and throughout Gauteng have been under siege since Monday night as residents attacked and looted stores in the area.  MultimediaLIVE spoke to Police Ministry Spokesperson Lirandzu Themba about what the minister plans to do about the ongoing violence.

3 Sep 2019 5AM 4 min

SA torn over banning of apartheid-era flag

Gratuitous display of the apartheid-era flag demonstrates a total rejection of reconciliation and a clear intention to be hurtful and incite harm.This is according to Gauteng deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo.In an equality court matter on Wednesday, he found that displaying the old flag constituted prohibited hate speech, discrimination and…

22 Aug 2019 4AM 5 min

Audio leaves more questions on Sredojevic's exit from Pirates to Zamalek

Tiso Blackstar senior soccer reporter Marc Strydom in a telephonic conversation with former Orlando Pirates head coach Milutin Sredojevic. The Serbian coach quit his Pirates job in a huff on late night Friday August 16 2019. He cited personal reasons and said that he quit because he had to attend…

21 Aug 2019 6AM 1 min

Slain soccer legend Marc Batchelor professes "unconditional love” and financial support for fiancee

South African soccer legend Marc Batchelor is heard on a voice note talking about what he's willing to do to get his fiancée, Cheré Gray, back. He commits to giving her R50,000 monthly, among other things.

3 Aug 2019 9AM 4 min

Bracing for a robotic future

Not long ago, the idea was pure science fiction. But now the idea of mankind and robots combining to create super-intelligence is actually happening. But what does this mean for my job? That is the biggest concern for most people when they think of the encroachment of artificial intelligence in…

24 Jul 2019 11AM 25 min

BLF vs FF+ a battle of political will

Black First Land First (BLF) has been deregistered as a political party. The Electoral Commission announced on Monday that it had found in favour of an appeal lodged against the registration of the organisation Black First Land First (BLF) by the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) on the grounds that the…

17 Jul 2019 8AM 5 min

Day 2 - Zuma's great denial

"I don't know chair", "I can't remember chair" were Jacob Zuma's responses to most questions put to him by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo at the state capture inquiry in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Sunday Times politics reporter on the ground Amil Umraw sums up everything you need to know about…

17 Jul 2019 2AM 1 min

Day 1 - Zuma's conspiracy theory

Former president Jacob Zuma on Monday attempted to discredit a former minister who testified against him at the judicial commission of inquiry into state capture, by accusing him of being a spy. Ngoaka Ramatholdi, a former mineral resources minister, public service and administration minister and deputy correctional services minister, immediately…

15 Jul 2019 10AM 1 min

BLF leader banned from entering the Zondo Commission

BLF leader Andile Mngxitama has been barred from entering the Zondo Commission of Inquiry, allegedly owing to his dawning of BLF party regalia.

15 Jul 2019 3AM 1 min

'Being a historian is a sacred profession' - Simon Sebag Montefiore

Historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore talks to Hamilton Wende about the perversion of history, truth and politics and why he was not cut out to be a journalist

23 Jun 2019 2AM 31 min

The June 2019 Sona in 5 minutes

On the 20 June president Cyril Ramaphosa gave his 3rd Sona address to Parliament. Sunday Times Political Reporter Qaanitah Hunter was at the event, and gives us a succinct run down of the addresses most note worthy moments.

21 Jun 2019 2AM 4 min

President Ramaphosa has a dream

On the evening of the 20 June, newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his third State of the Nation address to parliament. During the address he outlined his dream for the construction of South Africa's very first smart city.

20 Jun 2019 2PM 2 min

The State of the Nation address in full

On the evening of the 20 June, newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his third State of the Nation address to parliament. The president put special emphasis on issues of youth unemployment, economic growth, the security of Eskom, the progress of his investment drive and land redistribution. Issues he stated,…

20 Jun 2019 2PM 1 hr 16 min

Smaller parties suspect fraud

Tensions are running high at the IEC’s Results Operation Centre in Pretoria today, as the plethora of smaller parties broke out into song, and band together to make several of their concerns known.

10 May 2019 11AM 7 min

BLF states white monopoly capital will benefit from vote fixing

Live from the IEC's Results Operations Centre in Pretoria, the topic of the day is without a doubt the occurrence of double voting during this year’s national elections. With wide spread concern being shared among various parties, Black First Land First or the BLF national spokesperson Lindsay Maasdorp states that,…

9 May 2019 11AM 3 min

VF+ rips the rug out from under the DA

As polling results begin to trickle in at the IEC’s Results Operation Centre, VF+ has already began to see significant growth in it national numbers. In 2014 the party held 0.9% of the national vote. Just 32% into the current national results counting, the party now holds 3.11% of the…

9 May 2019 6AM 2 min

Fee free education is an empty promise

South Africa’s young registered voters feel that promises to deliver a fee free reliable education system is little more then political grandstanding.

7 May 2019 9AM 3 min