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About 18 children rescued from the Mancoba Family Church in Ngcobo Eastern Cape must go to school. Eastern Cape Social development MEC, Nancy Sihlwayi, and officials visited the Angel Ministries church on yesterday (Wednesday) to understand its practices. The children are found to have been living under extremely poor conditions. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the MEC of Social Development in the Eastern Cape, Nancy Sihlwayi...

Lily Gold Mine management near Barberton in Mpumalanga says it will take them 14 days to resume rescue operations underground. This after operation to find three trapped mine workers were stopped due to rock fall at the mine over the weekend. The workers are believed to be in a container which was used a their work station. The announcement was made last night at a joint media briefing with AMCU and the Minister of Mineral Resources. Motsebi wa Monareng reports

1. Inflation and Retail sales data released yesterday, both came in higher than expected. What does that say about local economic conditions?
2. High inflation and low growth - is this what is meant with the term 'stagflation'?
3. If we lose our sovereign credit rating, what alternatives do we have as a country, to source loans or capital inflows?

Lily Gold Mine management near Barberton in Mpumalanga says it will take them 14 days to resume rescue operations underground. This after operation to find three trapped mine workers were stopped due to rock fall at the mine over the weekend. The workers are believed to be in a container which was used a their work station. The announcement was made last night at a joint media briefing with AMCU and the Minister of Mineral Resources. Motsebi wa Monareng reports

Every Friday a social media specialist joins us as we look at what’s ‘trended’ this week in the social media space and we look at what to look forward to in the next week topically in the social media space.

Every Friday a social media specialist joins us as we look at what’s ‘trended’ this week in the social media space and we look at what to look forward to in the next week topically in the social media space.

The inquiry into the collapse of the temporary bridge over the M1 at Grayston Drive in Johannesburg will resume again in April. On Tuesday - stakeholders submitted administrative reports where it was revealed that there may have been bolts missing on the temporary scaffolding structure that collapsed onto the highway in October last year. Two people were killed and 19 injured. The inquiry has been established to find if someone should be held criminally responsible for the incident. Noma Bolani reports

1. Anglo American released very disappointing results yesterday. What does this mean for the organization and for jobs in South Africa?
2. SAA has requested an extension from parliament to table its annual report from February to March. How does this impact on parliamentary oversight?

A treatment to help the immune system fight cancer could soon be a reality. Scientists in the United States say they have found exceptional results with modified T-Cells for patients who would normally have just months to live. Researchers say they witnessed symptoms in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia disappear completely. Dr Carl Albrecht, Associate Researcher in the Biochemistry Department of Stellenbosch University, says he welcomes this breakthrough, but is concerned about the costs of treatment.

The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources, Sahlulele Luzipo, says he is satisfied with level of commitment by Lily Mine management on finding the three missing miners. Luzipo met with the mine management, families of the trapped mineworkers and the Department of Mineral Resources on site for an inspection yesterday. The three have been trapped underground since 5 February.