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Commissioner Lindiwe Mokate, of the South African Human Rights Commission, says fighting racism in the country is still going to take a while. Speaking on the sidelines of Human Rights Day at Durban's Moses Mabhida stadium, Mokate says people should take comfort in the fact that there are avenues available to them if they feel their rights have been violated. Dries Liebenberg compiled this report.

Political analyst Somadoda Fikeni has described the ANC's decision to dismiss an open letter from party veterans as a missed opportunity. Bongi Gwala speaks to Policy and political analyst Prof Somdoda Fikeni from UNISA.

The ANC has strongly condemned any attempt by business conglomerates to capture the state and influence awarding of multi-billion rand government contracts. This emerged at the end of the governing party's three-day National Executive Committee meeting, which was held in Irene south of Pretoria. Presidential Correspondent Tshepo Ikaneng

South Africans are being urged to use this year's Human Rights Day to confront the demons of racism in the country. The day commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre in which police shot and killed 69 people on March 21st in 1960. President Jacob Zuma will address the main Human Rights Day commemoration at the Moses Mabhida stadium in Durban later this morning. Our Presidential Correspondent Ntebo Mokobo reports.

Cultural and traditional barriers were broken when the late former President Nelson Mandela's grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela went down the aisle with his Muslim wife, Rabie Clarke in Mvezo village near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape yesterday . Hundreds of invited well wishers in Islamic and isiXhosa traditional attires ululated and sang in celebration of their union, held privately in Madiba's birthplace. The media was not allowed to the wedding venue. Our reporter Nkululeko Nyembezi was outside the premises and filed this report

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President Jacob Zuma has denied being influenced by any external force including the Gupta family in the appointment of ministers and their deputies. He was responding to questions in the National Assembly . This was his first oral reply to the joint sitting of parliament for the year. The president has also rejected claims by former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor that she was offered a ministerial post by the Guptas while he was in the next room. Ntebo Mokobo reports

ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe says state capture by business is a threat to the party. He was speaking ahead of what is expected to be a heated National Executive Committee meeting that will discuss the issue. However, there is division over the Gupta family's influence on the governing party and the state. This comes amid revelations that the family offered ANC members cabinet posts and pressured ministers on key policy decisions to suit their business ventures. Senior Political reporter Angela Bolowana reports on the differing views within the ANC ahead of its highest decision making body's meeting between conferences-