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The SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) says it won't allow any of its members to report for duty today because the Department of Basic Education has failed to meet the minimum requirements to ensure level 4 safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. School management teams (SMT) are expected to report for duty at schools across the country to prepare for the proposed return of grade 7 and 12 pupils on 1 June. We spoke to Nkosana Dolopi- Deputy General Secretary for SADTU

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The Glenzito Superdrive is designed to be fun, easy with a bit of va va voom.

#SNEAKERFRIDAY: We’ll speak to a Belgian company that’s turning old sneakers into face masks. We’re joined on the line from Belgium by Ruud Belmans, Designer of the masks and Creative Director at We Want More.

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ARTS INTERVIEW: Watcha TV is an online platform which enables artists and creatives to generate income from their live streams, store it and resell it. The platform will see artists sharing a 50/50 revenue split with the channel company. To speak to us more we have the founder of the platform WATCHA TV Founder Dr Sipho Sithole.

INTERVIEW: We’ll speak to the Traditional Healers Organisation about the World Health Organisation saying they recognize the role of traditional practitioners in Africa in the fight against Covid-19.

Business for SA (B4SA) called for an urgent reopening of SA's economy as it warned that as many as 4-million jobs could be lost due to the Covid-19 crisis, with economic activity taking three to five years before returning to pre-crisis levels. It estimates that between 1-million and 4-million could be lost, with economic activity only reaching pre-lockdown levels in three to five years' time. Even before the Covid-19 outbreak closed down most of the economy, SA was struggling with an unemployment rate of nearly 30%. We spoke to EFF Member of Parliament Dr. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, and Jordan Hill-Lewis, DA Shadow Minister of Finance

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says government does not want a fire sale of the assets of troubled national airline SAA nor for the carrier to be liquidated.

He told a parliamentary committee that the government was in talks with rescue specialists in charge of state-owned South African Airways (SAA) on how best to save the airline, which entered a form of bankruptcy protection in December. He says government will be meeting with the Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs) in the next two days on the restructuring of the airline. LINK: Gordhan has lauded the role played by South African Airways (SAA) staff in efforts to rescue the airline.
Gordhan says in discussions with trade unions, they have agreed to take salary cuts of up to 40% to ensure SAA's survival. The Minister briefed the joint Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises and the Select Committee on Public Enterprises and Communications during a virtual joint meeting yesterday evening. We spoke to Chartered accountant and Commentator, Khaya Sithole, SACCA President and Zazi Nsibanyoni-Mugambi

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