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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.

Market Analyst Clive 'ntozabantu Ramathibela

1. Asian shares rose, rebounding from the steepest selloff in global stocks since January

2. Emerging-Market Stock Selloff Abates as Currencies Hold Declines

3. Nigeria Central Bank to Announce New Currency Policy

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

Mohammed Nalla Head of Strategic Research at Nedbank CIB looks at South Africa current account deficit which has weakened further, Chinese stocks still excluded from MSCI index for a third time and what to expect from SA retails sales data today and the Fed after SA close

Despite government's interventions reports are that teaching has not resumed at Vuwani in Limpopo. About two thousand Grade 12 leaners have already missed their midyear examinations. In the wake of this the South African Human Rights Commission is hosting a three day hearings on the impact that protests have on education. The hearings will bring together different organs of state and civil society to assist the commission to ensure that the right to learning is not violated. For more on this we caught up with both to Elijia Mhlanga, whos is the department's spokesperson and by the Head of Advocacy & Communications at the SAHRC, Gail Smith.

Twenty-one-year-old Henri van Breda is expected to appear in the Stellenbosch Magistrates Court today in connection with the murders of three members of the Van Breda family more than a year ago. Van Breda handed himself over to police earlier. Our reporter Jacques Steenkamp was in studio for further details

We now get the latest developments on the National Health Insurance (NHI) process. The NHI was introduced as a system that aims to unite public and private healthcare resources to ensure that everyone living in the country has access to the same standard of health care. Government's White Paper on NHI proposes a single, compulsory medical scheme for all. Critics though have pointed out that the NHI system would not work. John Kane-Berman a policy fellow at the South African Institute of Race Relations recently wrote that the system is not sustainable. We are now joined on the line by Minister of Health Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi.

Youth Centres across the country play an important role in the rehabilitation of young street children. It is often the need to escape from poor circumstances at home, that drove them onto the streets in the first place. As the country commemorates Youth Month, Port Elizabeth is home to a youth centre where boys aged between six and 18 are placed by the court. Veronica Fourie paid a visit to the Khayalethu Youth Centre

A representative of a charity organization will today testify on behalf of the convicted Paralympian, Oscar Pistorius. The testimony will be Pistorius' last bid to convince the court to deviate from the prescribed minimum sentence of 15 years for murder. Pistorius is back in the Pretoria High Court after the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his culpable homicide conviction last year, finding him guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Phanuel Shuma reports