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North West government has been paying the salaries of 37 000 public servants who cannot be accounted for. This revelation comes as the Premier of North West Supra Mahumapelo was briefing the standing committee on public accounts in Mahikeng yesterday. Mahumapelo says this emerged during a process to verify government employee in their salary payment system. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Dr Lydia Sebego, who is the Director General for the North West, the provincial government for details.

It is still not clear whether the troubled Roodepoort Primary School on Gauteng's East Rand will reopen soon. An independent mediation task team has finalised and submitted its report with recommendations to the Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, for consideration. The school has been in the spotlight with allegations of corruption and racism and was temporarily closed two weeks ago. Sakina speaks to the spokesperson for the Davidsonville Community Forum, Ronald Dyers

Public shaming on social media was recently cast into the spotlight after a teenage girl in Washington threw herself off a bridge days after her father cut her hair and posted the video online. A simple search of "child-shaming" on Youtube shows more than thirty-thousand results. In the wake of this our reporter Orrin Singh found out more about public shaming and the damage it could do to young minds

Market Analyst at 27Four investments Nadir Thokan looks at Mckinsey's report on South Africa and the US manufacuring PMI.

Stellenbosch University Rector and Vice Chancellor, Professor Wim de Villiers, has conceded that racism does exist on the university campus. He was briefing Parliament's portfolio committee on Higher Education and Training on allegations of racism levelled against the university. They're made in a video titled "Luister", made by a lobby group calling for transformation at Stellensbosch University. Zalene Merrington reports

Durban has been named as the host of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. SASCOC CEO, Tubby Reddy, part of the bid presentation team, says it has been a tough process. The announcement was made in Auckland, New Zeeland by outgoing Commonwealth Games President Prince Tunku Imran of Malaysia

Market analyst Clive Ramathibela talks about Asian stocks, US markets feel a lot of volatility and SA shows trade deficit in July has increased

Africa's richest man, Aliko Dangote of Nigeria is to invest in cement, power and coal mining in Zimbabwe. Dangote who was in Zimbabwe yesterday says his team will be in the country as early as next week for further exploration. The 58 year old multi billionaire is on an aggressive expansion drive across sub-saharan African. Last month, his company Dangote Group opened 450 million dollar cement plant in Zambia. Shingai Nyoka reports

Market Analyst at 27Four investments Nadir Thokan looks ArcelorMittal South Africa is planning to shut two mills and is reviewing operations at its largest plant, the mining agreement signed between government labour and business and China Factory PMI Falls to 47.3

South Africa is being denied the opportunity to send its best team to the Rugby World Cup 2015 due to political interference. This is according to the Freedom Front Plus who is now appealing to the British government to take urgent note of alleged political interference in sport in the country. Freedom Front Plus' parliamentary spokesperson on sport, Advocate Anton Alberts, says this type of interference on a racial basis has led to international sport boycotts against South Africa in the past.