Radio 2000 Mixes

Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe turned 92 years old yesterday. He spent the day with close family, ahead of a huge public bash said to cost eight hundrend thousand dollars or 12 million rand. The bash is planned for the coming weekend. This year's birthday is significant in more ways than one as Shingai Nyoka reports

Market Analist looks at Asian stocks as they fell, after the biggest weekly rally in four years, as oil held declines and a stronger yen weighed on Japanese shares, Emerging-market stocks extended a weekly advance as oil rebounded and investors speculated that the new head of China's securities regulator will take measures to bolster the world's second-largest equity market and previews the State of the Province Address by Gauteng Premier David Makhura

University of Pretoria students are planning a mass protest action outside the Pretoria Magistrate's court, this morning. The march is in support of the arrested student who are to appear before the court. Last week Pretoria University students went on a rampage forcing the university to suspend classes and 27 students were arrested. Sakina Kamwendo Nobungcwele Mbem who is the member of the SRC at the University of Pretoria

Management of the Lily Gold Mine near Barberton in Mpumalanga has stressed that the search for its three staff members remains a rescue operation. Meanwhile, drilling operations at the mine are still suspended. Efforts to create an alternative exit route started on Saturday. The staff members have been trapped underground for more than two weeks. The mine's spokesperson Coetzee Zietsman says Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane believes the search should not yet be classified as a recovery operation because of its sensitivity.

At least a 12 people= have been killed by lightning in KwaZulu-Natal in less than two weeks. In the latest incidents two teenagers were struck by lightning at Umhlabuyalingana while a 26 year old man suffered the same fate in Umzimkhulu. More than 80 households have been destroyed by the storm at Umzimkhulu area. Fanele Mhlongo reports

Mohammed Nalla from Nedbank Capital looks at Pravin Gordhan's crucial budget speech this week, US inflation rises more than expected in January, will this influence rates domestically and Business leaders warn a British exit from the European Union would deter investment in the UK and threaten jobs

Master T Rox - Classiq House Mix

AgriSA Deputy Executive Director, Christo van der Rheede, and his colleagues have come up with a plan to save cattle from starvation. Van der Rheede is calling for people to donate their cut grass to their initiative called Hope Grass Project. He says if we don't help farmers save their cattle's the country will face high red meat prices. South Africa's worst drought in decades has caused acute water shortages and devastated crops and grazing.

1. China has foreign exchange reserves that most other countries can only dream about, but it has declined quite a lot in recent times. Is this just due to capital outflows?
2. Staying in China, their latest consumer inflation was reported to be one of the highest numbers in recent times. Is this a good or a bad thing?
3. So with all this volatility and uncertainty around the Chinese economy and Chinese capital markets, does this mean that investment in Chinese equities should be avoided?

Vote counting is underway in Uganda. Thousands of voters filled polling stations for the presidential and parliamentary elections. Seven candidates are attempting to remove President Yoweri Musevini who has been in power for thirty years. Leon Ssenyange reports from Kampala in Uganda.