Aviation authorities are continuing their investigations into yesterday's Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. The Boeing 737 Max-8 - en route from Addis Ababa to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi crashed six minutes after take-off, killing all 157 people on board.

Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi addressed teachers, learners and parents at Crystal Park High following a video footage depicting some girl learners assaulting another girl learner. The video went viral on social media.

The government of the Bahamas has agreed to release the body of 29-year-old South African woman who died in the country. Nobuhle Bhengu from Umlazi south of Durban, was working on a cruise ship when she fell ill and was admitted to a hospital in the Bahamas. The government has been refusing to release her body since she died in February and planned to cremate it over concerns that her unexplained illness could be contagious.

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:There is victory for people in same sex relationships and are members of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria this morning overturned the church's decision not to recognise same-sex unions within the church. Same sex marriages have been legal in South Africa since 2006. We spoke to Laurie Gaum who is a Minister of the Dutch Reformed Church working in the field of gender equity and reconciliation...

Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha approved the parole of Ferdinand Barnard with effect from April 2, this year. Barnard was sentenced to life imprisonment in June 1998 after being convicted on numerous charges including, murder, attempted murder, defeating the ends of justice and unlawful possession of firearms.
One of the two murder charges was in connection with the killing of anti-apartheid activists and Wits University academic Dr David Webster in 1989. Webster was shot and killed at the behest of the apartheid police's security branch, the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB).

In reaching the decision to grant parole, Minister Masutha says that Mr Barnard has met all requirements for parole

Protest action by students at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) in the Eastern Cape, continues today. Students are protesting over registration and accommodation problems at the institution. Students have barricaded various entrances to North and South campuses of the institution. Classes for the day have been postponed until further notice.

Meanwhile Academic activities also remain suspended at the Tshwane University of Technology. The university resolved yesterday to close all academic programmes for students with immediate effect, until further notice. Student are protesting over unpaid meal allowances and insufficient residences. TUT has instructed students at all nine campuses to clear their residences as soon as possible, for their own safety.

There is a new SASSA scam, preying and ripping off pensioners of their garnts. A 77 year Hleziphi Thwala has allegedly been defrauded of her SASSA money for about three months. She alleges that when she went to withdraw at the end of January, there was no money.

EFF leader Julius Malema has accused eNCA journalist Karima Brown of being a state security spy. This after Brown accidentally wrote an editorial note on the EFF's WhatsApp media group last night which was directed to her media house. In it, Brown directs the group to monitor Malema's event on the East Rand where he met with the elderly to hear their grievances ahead of the May 8 polls. The EFF leader says Brown is out to destroy the political party.