[TOP STORY] Barbara Creecy: ‘Safety is my number one concern’ amid aviation turmoil

On the show today: Calls for police officers who embarked on an illegal strike in Ekurhuleni to be jailed. The timing behind the SADC’s decision to pull soldiers from war-torn DRC, and climate change organisations welcome a historic ruling set to protect the African Penguin and small-scale fisherman.

As Ebrahim Rasool returns to home soil after being booted from the USA, we ask if the ambassador overstepped diplomatic boundaries? The potential impact of a rate cut on the property industry. And new research suggests that Rooibos could protect petrol attendants from harmful petrochemical exposure.

‘There are masterful insights that can be used to be able to identify a perpetrator and that's what this initiative was about, leveraging the access to information we all have,’ says Nischal Mewalall, CEO of the South African Banking Risk Information Centre.

A new report shows shifting consumer behaviour in a cautiously optimistic economic landscape. Will a R460m off-season maintenance plan give the sugar industry a much-needed boost? And growing concerns around municipal negligence in flood-stricken KZN.

‘One can concede that the ground was certainly not fertile for the kinds of comments that were made because already there were issues that were bubbling on the surface that needed to be addressed,’ says presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.