One of South Africa's biggest asset managers Futuregrowth says it plans to only do business with state-owned enterprises with credible management which is acting in the best interest of the companies they run. Futuregrowth yesterday announced that it will stop lending money to six of the country's largest state-owned companies temporarily. The company says it wants to get a better understanding of the management in government-owned companies. We caught with associate professor of law at Wits university professor Tshepo Mongalo for more on this...

Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, says there was nothing controversial about the Pretoria Girls High School hair policy. Leaners at the school staged a protest over thE hair policy saying it was racist and infringed on their rights. The protests made headlines this week. Mpho Lepedi reports...

Both the Democratic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters have asked the presiding officers of Parliament to investigate the validity of Parliamentary membership of ANC MP Peace Mabe. In the run-up to the August 3rd municipal elections, Mabe was the mayoral candidate of Mogale City in Gauteng. She was also reportedly sworn in as a councillor, but lost the race to become mayor to the DA. Now she has resumed her Parliamentary duties and some opposition parties are questioning her membership. They are adamant that she has not been sworn-in back at Parliament after the election. Lulama Matya reports.....

Violence linked to the lack of tuition at Sandi High School outside Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape has flared up. Homes rented by learners in the village were attacked last night (monday 29 August). A number of classrooms were vandalised or set alight on Monday, apparently out of frustration over inaction by the authorities. As Mbasa Khwaza reports, there's been no teaching at the school since February..

Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications has commenced public hearings on the Films and Publications Amendment Bill. The proposed bill could lead to revenge porn being criminalised in South Africa. For more on this we are joined on the line by Film and Publication Board Legal Officer Tholoana Ncheke

The Department of Basic Education says the legislation on schools' conduct will be reviewed to ensure that discriminatory policies are not put in place. This comes after incidents of racism were reported at several schools. Learners at Pretoria High School for Girls staged a protest accusing the school of mistreating pupils with natural black hair or dreadlocks and braids as well as instructing them not to speak in their mother-tongues. Learning at Lawson Brown High School in Port Elizabeth was also disrupted after pupils demanded that the code of conduct regarding hair restrictions be amended. We caught up with social activist on cultural diversity and unity Bathandwa Mcuba for more on this...

Nerina Visser, strategist at etf SA looks at the uncertainties coming from global markets, US economy is assumed to be on a more sustainable growth path, what does that mean for the demand for commodity prices, and there is an increasing number of private sector corporate governance breaches in the news lately, with British American Tobacco and Arcelor Mittal.
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Heads of State attending the SADC summit in the kingdom of Swaziland were present at this year's Umhlanga Reed Dance ceremony. Among them are presidents Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Filipe Nyusi of Mozambique. The annual reed dance is the kingdom's biggest cultural event. Motsebi wa Monareng reports.....

More that 50 Thusi Coal Mine workers who staged an underground sit-in in Ermelo in Mpumalanga, are now calling for government's intervention. They started the sit-in last week claiming that the mine management had failed to pay them their salaries for the past three months. Most of them are affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). Mthobisi Mkhaliphi reports....

Black learners at Pretoria Girls High School say they have to face racial abuse on a daily basis.The learners met with Gauteng MEC Panyaza Lesufi after a protest that sparked a countrywide condemnation of racism at the school. Lesufi and Tshwane Executive Mayor Solly Msimanga went to the school to hear the concerns of both sides. Neo Makwiting reports.....