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Children living with autism in Soweto will now have easier access to schooling. This comes after the Gauteng Department of Education officially opened the Thulasizwe School for Autism, in Orlando West - Soweto yesterday. The school is one of eleven institutions that have been opened since the start of the year to cater for children with special intellectual needs. Thulasizwe School for Autism will accommodate 90 learners. Neliswa Mavundla reports...

Local government elections may possibly only take place in August. This is due to the Independent Electoral Commission still working on contingency plans to allocate thousands of voters in townships and rural areas with addresses. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to IEC spokesperson Kate Bapela

Herman Mashaba, the Founder of the hair-product Black Like Me, has been chosen as the Democratic Alliance's (DA's) Mayoral Candidate for the City of Johannesburg for the upcoming local government elections. Mashaba says, he can't watch the country move in the wrong direction. He says he is really intrigued that in South Africa today, he is still regarded as a black person. He joins us on the line now to elaborate

Markets analyst, Clive Ramathibela looks at Emerging-market stocks fell to the lowest level since 2009 as concern about faltering global economic growth and the slump in oil prices sapped risk appetite, Stocks across the Middle East tumbled as the easing of sanctions against Iran raised the prospect of a surge in oil supplies to a market already reeling from the lowest prices in more than a decade and India said it will set up a $1.5 billion fund to encourage start-up businesses and pledged to ease regulations for entrepreneurs.

Nerina Visser, Strategist at ETF SA looks at what 2016 for the markets and the economy, oil price would be around $30 a barrel! In the light of the weakness of the rand, this is probably something to be grateful for. What impact would this have on the domestic inflation and interest rate outlook and the global beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev listed on the JSE on Friday, does this mean that the transaction with SABMiller has now been finalised?

ANC supporters have pulled down the 'Zuma must fall' giant billboard which was mounted on a wall of an apartment building in Cape Town. Chaos ensued when one member of the crowd insulted President Jacob Zuma while ANC Dullah Omar Regional Chairperson Xolani Sotashe was addressing the protesters. Abongwe Kobokana reports.

Students aligned to the Fees Must Fall demonstrations in Cape Town have described the deployment of additional security officials to universities as intimidating. Security has been visibly beefed up on some campuses, amid the writing of deferred exams and ahead of the 2016 registration process. Thandiswa Mawu reports..

Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly talks about the combined value Apple, ExxonMobil and Google has been lost by the world’s struggling mining industry, which is at an 11-year low, another diamond mine is closing and mines are coming under the auction hammer around the world and Former President Kgalema Motlanthe is calling for an efficient, collective solution to the problems of South Africa’s battered mining industry.

The South African government has made a submission for an extension to explain to the International Criminal Court why they did not transfer Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to The Hague when he attended an EU summit in Johannesburg in June 2015. The ICC has an arrest warrant out against the president for his alleged involvement in the atrocities in Darfur in 2003 which left approximately 300 thousand people dead. South Africa's ministry for justice says the ICC must wait for details of what happened when President Al Bashir was in the country until after the issue has been processed in national courts.
Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela looks at U.S. Stocks Stem Global Sell off , Asian Stocks Rebound After U.S. Advance as Material Shares Rise and the weeks wrap after Oil slumped and the Rand played yoyo.