A faction of the Pan Africanist Congress led by Luthando Mbinda has threatened that there will be no local government elections without the PAC. This follows a decision by the Independent Electoral Commission that the party can not contest the elections because it had failed to comply with the requirements for its participation. We caught up with Luthando Mbinda for more details...

Patients' lives are being put at risk as exhausted junior doctors work an average of about 30 hours a day, sometimes without a break. That's according to a member of the medical profession and concerned citizen, Dr Jon Roos. He says the result is that fatigue and sleep deprivation may put the lives of patients at risk. We spoke to Dr Roos and Dr Terrence carter from the health department....

Forty years ago today, thousands of black learners revolted against the apartheid system of Bantu Education and Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. All hell broke loose when the police unleashed their dogs, tear-gas and bullets on students armed with stones, knives and fire. A week later, the official cost was over a thousand injuries, 900 arrests and 140 corpses - the first being that of teenager Hector Peterson in Soweto. He became the innocent symbol in the turning point for democracy. Twenty years later, in 1996, the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard testimony in Soweto about the student uprising. Angie Kapelianis was there and compiled this sound-scape with Danny Booysen.

Yesterday's Constitutional Court judgement has been widely welcomed - by the Independent Electoral Commission, goverment and political parties. The court has ruled that the IEC's failure to record all available voter addresses on the voter's roll is inconsistent with the rule of law obligations and is invalid. It has however suspended the invalidity order giving the IEC until June 2018 to furnish addresses for the voter's roll except in the case of Tlokwe where discrepencies must be corrected in time for the next by-elections. This allows the August 2016 local government elections to proceed. Senior Political reporter Busi Chimombe reports on reaction to the judgement..

The Pretoria High Court is set for more emotional testimony today (wednesday 15 June), when state advocate, Gerrie Nel, calls his last witness in aggravation of sentencing against Oscar Pistorius. It is understood that it will be a family member of Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius was found guilty of killing Steenkamp on 14 February 2013 at his luxury house in an estate east of Pretoria. Liela Magnus reports

The local government elections will go ahead on the third of August despite the Constitutional Court's ruling that the IEC did not capture the voter's addresses correctly on the voter's roll. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has given the Electoral Commission 18 months to get its systems in order. Previously the Electoral Court wanted that the IEC provide addresses of registered voters. To give a perspective on this, we are joined on the line by Grant Masterson- he is the Programme Manager at the Electoral Institute for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa (EISA).

As the impasse with 301 South African firefighters who went on strike demanding better pay while battling wildfires in Fort McMurray continues, the portfolio committee on environmental affairs says the department of environmental affairs has to account in the matter. The Committee says it will be engaging with the department to fully understand what happened in Canada to prevent any similar occurrence in future. For more on this we are joined on the line by Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs, Phillemon Mapulane.

The Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) has met with the SACP to strengthen their relation in dealing with the issues of the workers. The national officials of the two have affirmed in their statement the need to work closer in defending their unity and to develop it further. To hear more on this, we are joined on the line by the President of Cosatu, Sdumo Dlamini.

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Yesterday's Constitutional Court judgement has been widely welcomed - by the Independent Electoral Commission, goverment and political parties. The court has ruled that the IEC's failure to record all available voter addresses on the voter's roll is inconsistent with the rule of law obligations and is invalid. It has however suspended the invalidity order giving the IEC until June 2018 to furnish addresses for the voter's roll except in the case of Tlokwe where discrepencies must be corrected in time for the next by-elections. This allows the August 2016 local government elections to proceed. Senior Political reporter Busi Chimombe reports on reaction to the judgement