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Mineral Resources Minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, has told management at Impala Platinum Mine that his ministry will leave no stone unturned in determining the cause of fatal accidents at the mine. Last Tuesday a rock fall incident left one miner dead, while the other one remains trapped underground. This is the second fatal accident in four months, following the January incident, in which four miners died when a fire broke out in another shaft. Lucas Mothibedi compiled this report...

The Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions is hosting its annual conference in Mbabane, Swaziland, this week. The two-day conference will see more than seventeen members of the union deliberate alternatives to changes brought about by Climate Change. The gathering comes amid a decrease in agricultural production due to the recent drought that has hit many countries in the SADC region. Farmers are now expected to seek solutions to this and many other challenges facing the agricultural sector. Abongile Dumako reports

Co-operative Governance Minister, David van Rooyen, says more emphasis will be put into training councillors after the elections. Van Rooyen was speaking at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Special National Members Assembly in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. SALGA has developed a new Induction Manual to train councillors which is inline with the back-to-basics approach adopted by the department. Mcebisi Ngqina reports...

A South African rifleman was among 129 fallen UN peacekeepers honoured by the United Nations with the posthumous awarding of the Dag Hammarskjold medal for the fallen military, police and civilian personnel killed in 2015. SANDF soldiers Toto Tom Malashe was killed when his unit was ambushed while escorting a logistics convoy as part of their deployment with joint AU-UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. This was the 12th time in the last 13 years that the UN has honoured the passing of more than 100 blue helmets who lost their lives in the line of duty. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

Monday the students of Fort Hare went on protest action demanding that management address their 16 demands before the 100-years celebrations, this as the university prepares to celebrate its centenary. Some of their demands are that those accepted by NSFAS, be given their meal cards with immediate effect and that the residence fee increment reversed. Some of the students were quoted as saying the celebrations won't go ahead until their demands are addressed by President Jacob Zuma.

Impala Platinum Mine near Rustenburg says chances of finding the missing miner still alive are getting slim. The mine revealed overnight that they found a body of one miner in an area with extremely unstable ground. The two miners were trapped underground on Tuesday following a rock fall. Mine spokesperson Johan Theron says they are continuing the search...

South Africa's most celebrated Deputy Chief Justice is set to retire, after serving 15 years on the bench. Justice Dikgang Moseneke helped steer South Africa's highest court - the Constitutional Court - over a tumultuous period shaping our laws in notable ways. With dogged determination, Moseneke faced off with politicians, both inside and outside the court, speaking truth to power. Some say that this cost him a promotion to become the Chief Justice. Senior Constitutional Court reporter, Candice Nolan sat down with Moseneke and filed this report

Co-operative Governance Minister, David van Rooyen, says more emphasis will be put into training councillors after the elections. Van Rooyen was speaking at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Special National Members Assembly in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. SALGA has developed a new Induction Manual to train councillors which is inline with the back-to-basics approach adopted by the department. Mcebisi Ngqina reports

A community leader from Chibok in north eastern Nigeria says almost all the girls kidnapped over two years ago by Boko Haram are being held in the Sambisa forest. The leader was quoting a girl who has been rescued from the outskirts of the forest. Amina Ali Nkeki was found carrying a baby by an army-backed vigilante group in the Sambisa Forest, close to the border with Cameroon. Over 200 girls remain missing after their abduction from a secondary school in April 2014. The girls were taken by militants from Boko Haram. We caught up with a Member of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign Rotimi Olawole for more details...

In less than three months, South Africans will vote in the 2016 local government elections. However, in the build up to the vote, we've seen a number of community protests in the country. According to local government data and intelligence organisation, Municipal IQ, 2016 is set to be a record year for protest action. The organisation says this year has seen 70 protests compared to a total of 164 for 2015‚ and 191 for 2014. Commentators say the protests are an indication that people are growing impatient and are calling for government to take their demands seriously. GUESTS: Des van Rooyen, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs: Koketso Moeti, Local Government Action, National Co-ordinator and Nomfundo Mogapi , Executive Director at the Centre For The Study Of Violence And Reconciliation