1. Asian market stocks go up as the Japanese Stocks looks strong
2. Abinomics lost ground on five economic fronts
3. Concern raised as Euro bond issued to Africa

Financial secrecy by multi-national companies helps strip Africa of about 50-billion US dollars each year. Prominent social activists and anti-corruption watchdogs, that include Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Corruption Watch, and Transparency International, are jointly calling for the leaders of the Group of 20 biggest economies to stop that corruption. In an open letter to the leaders heading to Brisbane for the G20 Summit, the activists stress governments must make corruption by multi-national companies a priority. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Corruption Watch Executive director David Lewis

Metal workers at the various car manufacturing plants in the Eastern Cape want NUMSA to fight for a return to the COSATU-fold. NUMSA has instructed its members to continue attending COSATU shop steward council meetings, despite its expulsion from the trade federation. Our reporter, Mzukisi Solani has more...

Numsa says they don't believe that they will get a fair hearing from today's meeting. NUMSA President, Andrew Chirwa says as the workers, they have a right to be in COSATU. Cosatu on tthe othe hands says the Metalworkers' union should not pre-empt the results of today's Central Executive meeting. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Both Numsa and Cosatu President Andrew Chirwa and S'dumo Dlamini...

On the Coal-Face feature today Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly looks at New technology has slashed the use of electricity at Glencore’s giant chrome beatification plant, New technology will next year unlock a ton of gold that cannot be mined conventionally and New technology is recovering gold from process waste that normally ends up on the trash heap...

Deputy Agriculture Minister, Bheki Cele says communities have a responsibility to make sure that criminals never have peace wherever they are. He was addressing Vosloorus residents, who packed the local community hall to discuss crime yesterday (Tuesday). This follows the murder of Bafana Bafana Captain, Senzo Meyiwa who was gunned down in the township over a week ago. The meeting, organised by the ANCYL in Gauteng, aims to highlight the need for the community to get involved in the fight against crime. Wisani Makhubele has more

Nedlac constituencies to the Presidential Labour Relations Indaba, have reached an in-priciple agreement on a national minimu wage. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who presided over the Conference says a task team made up of representatives of business, government, labour and the community will work out a framwork for a final agreement by July next year. The central issue to be tackled is the model of a national minimum wage for South Africa. Frank Nxumalo compiled this report and presented by Sisanda Jonas...

Yesterday, Eskom has started rolling blackouts across the country, due to the loss of 1 800 Mega Watts at the Majuba power station. The power Utility has implemented rotational load shedding, to deal with damages that were caused by the collapse of its coal storage silo at the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga.Residents in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town have experienced power cuts. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Eskom spokesperson Andrew Etzinger.

NADIR THOKAN , ANALYST FROM 27 FOUR INVESTMENTS LOOKS AT:

1. Increase in volatility on the JSE over the last three months and what has caused this?
2. Central banks diverging monetary policy strategies with particular reference to the FED and bank of Japan
3. Finally ..Corporate governance at SA companies and the issues at HCI and PPC

South Africans should brace themselves for yet another series of power cuts by Eskom. The power utility says in a statement the load shedding would start at 8 a.m. and run till 10 p.m. It says it has lost one-thousand-800 megawatts at the Majuba power station that was now operating at a reduced capacity of one-thousand-300 megawatt. Eskom spokesperson, Andrew Etzinger....