Radio 2000 Mixes

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela joins us on the line

1. U.S. stocks declined, tracking a selloff in equity markets around the world, on renewed worries about the prospects for global growth

2. Rand Drop Pushes South African Assets Abroad at Record Pace

3. Why SMME's continue to register despite the tough economic conditions

Nerina Vissar, Strategist at ETF SA looks at Anglo suspending dividends until end of 2016, South African Reserve Bank bulletin confirms basis for credit downgrades and how the drought is affecting the country.

Calls by Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump that Muslims be banned from entering the country is receiving push back from the White House to his fellow candidates. Trump made the call after attack on St Bernardino,California in which two suspects sympathetic to ISS killed 14 people and injured 21. The White House says Trumps remarks disqualified him to be president. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports....

1. China exports fell for fifth month and a slump in imports expanded to 13 months
2. Emerging ,markets stocks continue to struggle as the rout in oil prices worsens
3. Iron ore prices tumbled to 30 dollars as miners prices approach break even cost

Ministers from almost 200 countries are in Paris for COP21 to hammer out a new global climate deal. A draft negotiating text was agreed at the weekend. However financing, which would help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change, has been a key sticking point at the conference. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Penny-Jane Cooke, an Environmental justice activist at Greenpeace.

About a hundred members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and community members have embarked on a peaceful march to Bongani Hospital in Welkom in the northern Free State in demand of better health care services. The march was led by TAC in the Free State, and their demands include a meeting with the provincial Health Department to discuss what they've termed ongoing problems at Bongani hospital. Konelo Lekhafola reports ...

Almost 80 boys have been rescued from illegal initiation schools across Gauteng. Co-operative governance and traditional affairs department spokesperson, Motsamai Motlhaolwa, says since November 30th, a total of 59 initiates aged between 10 and 23 have been rescued from illegal initiation schools in Orange Farm, Sebokeng and Fochville. Meanwhile, in the Eastern Cape, a reported 13 initiates have died this summer initiation season. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the deputy chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders and the head of the National Initiation Task Team, Nkosi, Sipho Mahlangu...

The National Prosecuting Authority will call for a minimum sentence of 15 years for Oscar Pistorius when he appears in the High Court in Pretoria this morning. The paralympian is currently on parole after being jailed for culpable homicide, but the judgement was changed to murder last week at the Supreme Court of Appeal. NPA spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaku says Pistorius's brief appearance could see a bail application as well as a date being set...

Victims of women abuse believe that 16 Days of No Violence against Women and Children campaign has no effect in the rural villages of the Eastern Cape. This emerged during a recent Imbizo held in Bityi oustside Mthatha organised by various departments. They say abuse cases continue unabated in far flung rural areas. They believe the solution lies in concrete partnership between law enforcement agencies and the communities to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book. Our reporter Nkululeko Nyembezi visited the area and filed this report...

1. The market was generally strong yesterday, although it did decline into the close. But it seems the oil price is on a slippery slope - what caused the latest slump towards $40?
2. The slowdown in China has been one of the major factors driving commodity prices lower this year, but the other factor has been the strength in the US dollar. How much longer must SA, and other emerging markets, endure this double whammy - will it ever turn around?
3. One of the big company stories was that Steinhoff has moved its primary listing from the JSE to Frankfurt yesterday - is this good or bad news for SA investors?