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WThe ANC in Johannesburg is uncertain that it will be able to retain the metro municipality ahead of the inaugural council meeting on Monday morning. It obtained 44% and needs the support of other smaller political parties or risk losing Johannesburg to the opposition. The ANC has blamed national issues such as the Nkandla saga and e-tolls for its reduced electoral support in the August 3rd municipal elections. Earlier we caught up with Professor at the Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management and authour of Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma Prof Susan Booysen
Tshepo Phagane reports....

The ANC Youth League has called for the ruling party to bring forward its national conference to elect new leadership. The call follows the results of the local government elections. The Youth League spokesperson, Mlondli Mkhize, says a national conference is due in December 2017. However, if it could be brought forward by at least six months it would give the party time to recover before the 2019 elections. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to the ANCYL's national spokesperson, Mlondli Mkhize.

The DA's Johannesburg mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba says he's willing to stand down if the party asks him to. He was reacting to the EFF leader Julius Malema's statement in which he expressed reservations about Mashaba's candidature. Malema has undertaken to support the DA mayoral candidate in the Tshwane Metro, Solly Msimanga. Mashaba says he finds the conditions that Malema has set strange and awkward. He says both the DA and the EFF campaigned to dislodge the ANC. Earlier we caught up with Mashaba and political scientist, Professor Mcebisi Ndletyana...

Police in Zimbabwe's capital have dispersed hundreds of protesters calling for the country's president, Robert Mugabe, to step down. They fired tear gas at the protestors who were carrying flowers and holding posters reading "mugabe must go". Protest leader, Promise Mkwananzi, says yesterday's protest was a build-up to a national shutdown at the end of August. We spoke to our correspondent in Zimbabwe, Shingai Nyoka...

The DA and the EFF will today separately announce progress on coaliton talks in hung municipalities across the country. The parties are expected to explain their decisions on how the big metros of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay will be governed. Talks started two weeks ago when results showed that no party will be able to garner an outright majority to govern alone. We are now joined on the line by Political and Policy analyst at UNISA Dr Somadoda Fikeni

Teachers and children at Tau-dia-rora Primary School in Proof Plaas in the Northern Cape are still shocked and traumatised by the brutal murder of six year old Kutlwano Garesape. The little boy died while trying to protect his mother from an attacker. Kgotaco Selao reports...

The Communications Committee in Parliament says it wants an extension of committee meetings, just to deal with the recent developments at the SABC. The committee met when Parliament resumed yesterday morning (tuesday 16 August) to map out its programme for the third quarter. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more............

A study by the global medical charity MSF, or Doctors without Borders, says one in four women have been raped in the mining town of Rustenburg in the North West. The study says this has resulted in extremely high levels of psychological problems among the victims. This emerged at the 1st South African National Conference on Violence, taking place in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg. The conference brings together researchers and policy makers to look at ways of reducing crime in the country. Sashin Naidoo reports...

A process of assessing and reviewing legislation that affects South Africans negatively, will be put under review from next year. This emerged during the first day of public hearings on matters involving poverty, unemployment and inequality held in East London. Former President, Kgalema Motlanthe is chairing the hearings. Yanga Funani has more on the story...

The annual Smile Week, where plastic surgeons assist children in need of facial and other reconstruction is underway at Port Elizabeth's Provincial Hospital in the Eastern Cape. The initiative which is sponsored by the Port Elizabeth International Airport is aimed at putting a smile on the faces of the children in South Africa. About 20 children from across the province will undergo surgery this week. Thandi Setokoe reports