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A Judicial Conduct Tribunal against Western Cape Judge President, John Hlophe can now go ahead some eight years after a complaint was lodged by justices of the Constitutional Court. This was after the Court refused to reconsider its previous decision not to hear an appeal by two of their colleagues. Justices Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta, the chief complainants, raised technical procedural points related to the Tribunal. Senior Constitutional Court Reporter, Candice Nolan has the details

Earlier this year, on the 16th of May 2016 to be exact, EFF leader Julius Malema predicted that Pravin Gordhan would be arrested. Speaking during a tour in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town‚ Malema said Gordhan was a better devil

The State Security analyst and former Director for the Country Information Management Unit at the Home Affairs Department, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been recommended as the next Public Protector. This comes after three hours of deliberations to identify the best candidate. The four other candidates Judge Siraj Desai, Judge Erica Weiner, Advocate Muvhango Lukhamaine and Professor Bongani Majola were eliminated. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more

Beverage manufacturers are up against the proposed sugar tax. They say it's discriminatory and will impact negatively on the industry. The Beverages Association of South Africa says the move could reduce the industry's contribution to GDP by 14 billion rand. Tshepo Mongoai reports..

The Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Kebby Maphatsoe, has unreservedly apologized to the former Intelligence Minister, Ronnie Kasrils, for calling him a "traitor", "counter revolutionary" and an "enemy of the people". He has also retracted statements he made alleging that Kasrils was behind a conspiracy to discredit President Jacob Zuma by fabricating the rape case against him. This came after Maphatsoe and the MK Military Veterans Association settled a libel suit Kasrils brought against them, by agreement, in the Pretoria High Court. Liela Magnus reports .....

Academic activities have been disrupted at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth after students embarked on a fees must fall protest. Sasco provincial leadership has called for a provincial shut down, to persuade the Department of Higher Education to agree to a national demand for free education. As Olwethu Matsipane reports, the SRC tried to persuade students not to engage in the action...

Markets reacted with shock with the rand plunging to three weeks lows after reports that Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan had been ordered to report to the Hawks by the end of the week. In October of last year when then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene was fired, economists said the move cost the country billions of rands. What are the economic implications of this probe into the Finance minister? To answer that question and more. We are now joined on the line by Economist Dr Iraj Abidian

Finance minister, Pravin Gordhan is expected to report to the Hawks tomorrow (thursday) regarding the investigation into a rogue unit at SARS. The unit was set up while Gordhan was still its head. Treasury's spokesperson, Phumza Macanda has confirmed that Gordhan was summoned. However, Hawks spokesperson, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi says he has no knowledge of this. Earlier we caught up with both the journalist who broke the story, the Daily Maverick's Mariaane Thamm and political analyst, Professor Somadoda Fikeni...

ANC MP's have vowed that there will be no parliamentary inquiry into what is happening at the SABC. This follows calls from the DA that the situation in the public broadcaster needs to be investigated. The ANC says following the explanation from both the Communications Minister Faith Muthambi and the SABC, there is no need for an inquiry. Joseph Mosia reports

The DA has accused ANC members of the Portfolio Committee on Communications of having backtracked on their support of a proposed parliamentary inquiry into the SABC. DA MP Phumzile van Damme says it is clear that ANC MPs were pressured by Luthuli House. She says in so doing, they turned a blind eye to the rapidly degenerating state of affairs at the public broadcaster. Joining us on the line to discuss this further is the chairperson for the portfolio committee on Communications, Humprey Maxegwana