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Parliament has had a tough time explaining its 11th hour application for a deadline extension. The Constitutional court had declared certain sections of the sexual offences act invalid to the extent that they criminalised consensual sexual conduct between children under the age of 16. Parliament was given 16 months to remedy the defect. Senior Constitutional Court Reporter, Candice Nolan has the details.... last minute proposals on the finalisation of the Sexual Offences Act.

The victims of recent xenophobic attacks in KwaZulu Natal have been left out in the cold without food and shelter. The tents and other infrastructure at Isipingo camp were removed over the weekend. This after the eThekwini municipality decided to shut down the camp. The camp housed around 200 foreign nationals, originally from Burundi, Congo and Rwanda. The Spokesperson for foreign nationals, Daniel Dunia says they cannot return to their countries since there is conflict

Speculation is rife that the troubled Nelson Mandela Bay municipality in the Eastern Cape might have a new mayor today. High ranking ANC officials including President Jacob Zuma and his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa are in a meeting in Port Elizabeth with the Cooperative Governance Minister, Pravin Gordhan and his counterpart in the province Fikile Xasa. The meeting, which will later be followed by another with the Provincial Executive Committee is expected to focus on sorting out the infighting within its branches and leadership squabbles. The ruling party disbanded its regional leadership in the metro and replaced it with an interim task team led by party veteran politician Charles Nqakula. our reporter in Port Elizabeth, Mcebisi Ngqina has the update

Speculation is rife that the troubled Nelson Mandela Bay municipality in the Eastern Cape might have a new mayor today. High ranking ANC officials including President Jacob Zuma and his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa are in a meeting in Port Elizabeth with the Cooperative Governance Minister, Pravin Gordhan and his counterpart in the province Fikile Xasa. The meeting, which will later be followed by another with the Provincial Executive Committee is expected to focus on sorting out the infighting within its branches and leadership squabbles. The ruling party disbanded its regional leadership in the metro and replaced it with an interim task team led by party veteran politician Charles Nqakula.

Two Kimberley pastors who narrowly escaped the Nepal earthquake have safely returned to South Africa. The two, who planned to summit Mount Everest in an effort to raise funds for a local charity have abandoned this mission and will not be returning to Nepal. Bongi Gwala spoke to one of the pastors, Andre Venter and started by asking how it feels to be back home

The Pretoria High Court has ruled that the doctor who assists 65 year old Robin Stransham-Ford to commit suicide may not be prosecuted. Stransham-Ford suffers from terminal prostate cancer that has spread to his lower spine and kidneys. He says he only has at most a few weeks to live and wants to die with dignity surrounded by his family. His wish has now been granted

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Preliminary findings indicate that one of the trains involved in the accident that claimed one life and left more than 200 injured drove past the danger signal. The accident occurred when one of the trains crashed into a stationery train at the Denver station in Johannesburg yesterday (Tuesday). PRASA says it will conduct its own investigations and cooperate with an independent safety regulator in a separate probe. Earlier on we spoke to CEO at the Railway Safety Regular, Nkululeko Poyo.

The police and national guard troops have enforced a new curfew on tuesday night in Baltimore in response to ONGIONG riots. The curfew is set to last for the whole week and all residents are expected to be indoors by 10:00pm to 5:00am. An exception will only be made to those who are going to work or are attending to medical emergency. So far rioters have set ablaze 19 buildings and 144 vehicles, with more than 250 arrested and 20 police officers arrested

21 striking workers at Eskom's Medupi power plant in Lephalale, Limpopo, who'd been taken in for questioning by police have been released. They were allegedly among the striking workers who were intimidating their non-striking colleagues. The workers earlier blockaded roads in the area. Thousands of workers are demanding to be paid ten-thousand rand bonuses for the completion of unit six of the station.