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Deputy President David Mabuza says South Africans and the ANC in particular should learn a lot from the late anti-apartheid struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. He was speaking at Mam Winnie's official memorial service held at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Wednesday. The service was attended by several Cabinet ministers and leaders of different political parties including the Azapo, the PAC, IFP and the EFF. Our Political Correspondent Ntebo Mokobo was there and filed this report.

Tributes continue to pour in for struggle veteran, former cabinet minister and Ambassador to the UK , Zola Skweyiya. Skweyiya died in a Pretoria hospital yesterday morning, at the age of 75. He served as Minister of Public Service and Administration in the Mandela administration. Skweyiya then served as Minister of Social Development during Thabo Mbeki's presidency. Skweyiya retired as a parliamentarian after the 2009 general elections, citing health reasons. Amos Phago reports

The Inter-Ministerial Committee on State Funerals led by the Minister in the Presidency, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says it's all systems go for today's memorial service of the late struggle icon, Winnie Madikizela Mandela. It is scheduled to take place at Orlando Stadium at 11 o'clock this morning. Dlamini Zuma says there are a number of "Heads of States" and deputies expected to attend the service. Abongile Dumako reports.

Families living in a partially-collapsed building where three children died when a wall collapsed on them this week, are refusing to be relocated to a safer area. This, is despite the building being declared unsafe for habitation. Some of the families say they are forced to live in such conditions because they cannot afford rentals, pleading poverty and unemployment. Sashin Naidoo re-visited the scene where the children died and filed this report...

Eight teachers from Freedom Park Secondary School, south of Johannesburg have been fired after being absent from school for 14 consecutive days. The eight were part of a group that had stopped going to work from the 4th of February this year. Instead they had been reporting to the District Office. They allege that they were being ill-treated by the school principal. Wisani Makhubele has more

As the national memorial service for the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is held at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto on Tuesday, the Economic Freedom Fighters will hold one of their own in Brandfort in the Free State. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi

UNICEF's Goodwill Ambassador and singer, Yvonne Chaka Chaka was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Laws. The singer has called on the Rhodes University to give the students activist who were expelled a second chance.

Rhodes University conferred a Honorary Doctorate to author, poet, and activist, Dr Sindiwe Magona. In a conversation, Tsepiso Makwetla had with Dr. Magona before she was bestowed with a Doctor of Letters - she said that, she hopes the honorary doctorate will make those in academia, publishers and young people see that there was something worthwhile in what she was doing....

Final dose of TRENDSWATCH where we take a look at news that dominated social media this week. Pm live producer Molebogeng Sebidi ...

The court case involving former president Jacob Zuma and his co-accused, a French arms supply company - has been postponed to June the eighth by the High Court in Durban. This after both the prosecution and the defence teams requested more time to allow Zuma's legal team to bring a review application against the NPA's decision to reinstate the charges against him. Zuma is facing 16 counts of fraud, money laundering and racketeering related to the multi-billion-rand arms deal. The French company is facing two charges. Scores of Zuma's supporters were inside and outside court to support the former President. Tsepiso Makwetla spoke to Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, Cathy Powell