Point of View with Phemelo Motene
Point of View with Phemelo Motene, delves into the day’s current affairs, touching on real issues and sharing expert advice on the audience questions between 8pm to 10pm Mondays to Thursdays.
Former NLC Secretary responds to corruption and maladministration allegations
Former National Lotteries Commission Secretary Adv Nompumelelo Nene responds to allegations of corruption and maladministration levelled against her by the NLC following her precautionary suspension on the 18th of November 2022 and her subsequent resignation on the 24th of January 2025.
Music Feature: Famous songwriting duos
In this week’s music feature Musicologist, Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal discusses famous songwriting duos.
What to Watch
In this week’s feature of What to Watch, Leroy Marc reviews The Residence and Go! Which are both on Netflix, The Parenting on HBO Max and much more.
ActionSA in Joburg Rejects Anti-Poor Adjustment Budget
ActionSA says it rejects, with reservations, what it’s described as an anti-poor adjustment budget tabled in Johannesburg Council today. It says whilst the budget has many positives that would help develop our communities, their main concern is the R230 electricity surcharge that residents have been subjected to since 2024. Phemelo…
Minister responds to scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault
A group of scientists due to work together for months at a remote Antarctic research station has been rocked after a member of the team was accused of physical assault. A team of nine researchers were due to spend the Antarctic winter at the South African-run base, which sits about…
Organisations welcome partial reopening of Johannesburg Library
The Johannesburg Heritage Foundation and the Johannesburg Crisis Alliance have welcomed the news that the Johannesburg Library will be partly reopened on Friday. They said they were eagerly awaiting the full reopening of the library in central Johannesburg towards the middle of the year. Phemelo speaks to Chairperson of the…
City of Ekurhuleni condemns strike by EMPD officers
An Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department's (EMPD) strike on Wednesday morning caused major traffic disruptions. City spokesperson Zweli Dlamini said several routes, including the R24 westbound and N3 northbound, were affected. The city has strongly condemned the protest. It’s understood workers are calling for the city to increase their salaries and…
Legal Matters
In this week’s Legal Matters, we discuss Lawyers duties to not pursue cases they deem useless and the rights of stepparents in relation to children.
Congolese, Rwandan leaders meet in Qatar, call for ceasefire in eastern DRC
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame have held direct talks for the first time since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels seized two major cities in eastern DRC. In a joint statement issued with Qatar, whose emir mediated the talks in Doha, the countries called…
Ministers brief Parliament on illegal mining in Stilfontein and ownerless mine
Police say they've already spent over R30 million in the Stilfontein operation. That's according to North West police commissioner, Patrick Asaneng. He briefed a joint sitting of Parliament's portfolio committees of police and minerals and Petroleum resources on illegal mining earlier. Since August 2024, more than 1,500 illegal miners surfaced…
Gauteng budget reax
Political parties have raised objections to Gauteng's annual budget. The 170-billion rand spending plan was presented to the provincial Legislature by Finance MEC Lebogang Maile. In a briefing earlier Finance MEC Lebogang Maile confirmed he had consulted with all parties on the budget except for the DA which has opposed…
Why has Israel bombed Gaza and what next for ceasefire deal?
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January. Since the start of the war, Netanyahu has faced duelling, possibly…
City Power puts plan in place to turn around ailing entity after R5bn loss
The Auditor General (AG) says senior management of City Power failed to monitor internal financial controls resulting in irregular and wasteful expenditure amounting to about R5 billion. The power utility has received an unqualified audit opinion for the 2023/2024 financial year. The AG’s report paints a picture of financial mismanagement…
Book Feature: The Lions’ Den
The Lions’ Den was listed as one of the top 100 books to read in Time Magazine. A debut novel that soars with passion and humanity, the book is a moving story of prejudice, corruption, injustice, courage and solidarity. It shows us that no cause is ever a lost one…
Is homework a great concept but so middle class?
Homework is a middle-class concept. It does not work, I discovered, in working-class schools where I spent my mornings over the past year, says Distinguished Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University, Jonathan Jansen. He says Like so many “common sense” ideas about schooling the world over, the routine issuing of…
CrazyBikeGuy and Son to Pedal 40 Days in Europe for good cause.
Grant Cameron-Smith dubbed ‘the CrazyBikeGuy’ together with his 15-year-old son Julian, is embarking on an incredible 40-day cycling journey across Central Europe to support and amplify the voices of intellectually disabled adults. From the 30th of March, the father and son duo will be pedalling from Warsaw to Milan to…
Persona non grata’ – US expels SA ambassador Ebrahim Rasool
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared on Friday, 14 March, that South Africa’s ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool was “no longer welcome” in the US, accusing him of being a “race-baiting politician who hates America”. Rasool was expelled barely two months after he arrived in Washington. It was…
At least 1.5m SASSA beneficiaries still need to switch to Postbank black cards
At least 1.5 million SASSA beneficiaries still need to migrate from their gold cards to Postbank black cards before Thursday's deadline. Postbank currently serves 2.6 million grant recipients, but only 1.1 million have switched to the new black cards since the migration drive began. The deadline was originally set for…
Music Feature: Musicians transitioning from auto-tune to AI
In this weeks music feature musicologist Dr Sheldon Rocha Leal discusses how we have moved from auto-tune, to stand in vocalists and now AI and the copyright implications of all of this on the music business.
Gauteng Legislature holds public hearings on Petitions Amendment Bill of 2024.
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature is holding public hearings on the Gauteng Petitions Amendment Bill of 2024. Phemelo speaks to the Chairperson of the Petitions Committee, Vuyiswa Jentile.