26 May - Extraordinary Thursday with Bsc graduate and domestic worker Zanele Sibiya

Alternative Tuesday with a psychic

Inspirational Wednesday with the Loeries Chairperson Neo Mashigo about Creativity in Africa

Government has embarked on the annual Child Protection Week campaign which began yesterday and will continue until June the fifth. This year's theme is "Let Us All Protect Children To Move South Africa Forward". The campaign was launched at Braakspruit Farm, outside Klerksdorp in the North West Province. Issues of child labour and exploitation are common on farms. To chat to us about this, we spoke to the DDG of well fare services at the the department of Soial Development, Connie Nxumalo

The Democratic Alliance says it will go ahead with its plans to lodge a complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (icasa), stating that the SABC has allegedly refused to air its election advertisement. In a statement,the DA says the SABC had informed the party that it had no available slots for political advertisements. The DA said the SABC blamed its refusal to air its adverts on delays in the IEC's work with respect to the elections. Earlier we spoke to DA Leader Mmusi Maimane and SABC's spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago...

Earlier the trade union AMCU has vowed to continue with its strike at the Sibanye Platinum mine, despite the company's issuing of a court order declaring the strike unprotected, but has since suspended it. The biggest union in South Africa's platinum industry embarked on the strike at the mine last month. It's demanding transport and safety allowances as well as bonuses. Earlier we caught up with AMCU president, Joseph Mathunjwa..

Sentencing proceedings are set to get under way today in the Western Cape High Court in the case of the woman convicted of kidnapping Zephany Nurse 19 years ago. The 51-year-old woman from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats was found guilty on three charges - kidnapping, fraud and contravening sections of the Childre ns Act. Zephany was kidnapped from Groote Schuur hospital when she was three-days-old. She is expected to testify in aggravation of sentence, when the State puts its case forward. Berenice Moss reports

The Central Energy Fund says South Africa still has access to 90 days worth of crude oil reserves. This follows media reports suggesting that the country's strategic reserves have been drained to three hundred thousand barrels, enough for less than one day. The reports allege that the Central Energy Fund, the guardian of SA's strategic crude oil stocks, sold ten million barrels of crude without obtaining permission from the Treasury. We are now joined on the line by Tseliso Maqubela who is Energy Department Deputy Director- General responsible for Petroleum Regulation and Central Energy Fund board member

Jana van Deventer Market Analyst at ETM looks at how South Africa’s strategic fuel fund secretly sold off a staggering 10 million barrels of crude back in December, South Africa’s credit rating and the risk of sub-investment grade (or junk status) is a hot topic right now.

A study conducted by Stellenbosch University has revealed that over 50% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa do not understand what they read‚ while almost 30% are illiterate. Titled "Laying Firm Foundations: Getting Reading Right", the research investigated the causes of weak student performance in literacy and numeracy in the Foundation Phases. The study aslo focused on overcrowded classrooms, with the Eastern Cape and Limpopo coming up as two provinces that have more than 60 learners in classrooms between Grades 1 and 4. For more on this we are joined on the line by Dr Nick Spaull who is a research fellow at the University of Johannesburg and the University of Cape Town