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Multichoice has announced that it will not be renewing its contract with news channel ANN7 when it expires in August this year. The announcement follows ICASA's confirmation that it is conducting an investigation into alleged payments made by Multichoice to the SABC and ANN7. The pay-TV provider faced criticism for questionable payments to the tune of 141-million rand annually to ANN7. Naledi Ngcobo reports

Eskom head of generation Matshela Koko says he's determined to clear his name. He's taken to Twitter, to confirm his suspension after receiving a letter with fresh charges last night. Last Friday Koko won a Labour Court application preventing Eskom from firing him. Since the new board took over about two weeks ago, several Eskom executives have resigned or are being suspended. Yesterday, Chief Information Officer, Sean Maritz, was suspended pending an investigation into his dealings with consulting firm McKinsey.

Communication Workers' Union (CWU), general-secretary Aubrey Tshabalala says pay TV giant MultiChoice's decision to dump ANN7 has a negative impact on staff of the 24-hour television news channel. MultiChoice announced yesterday that it would not renew ANN7's contract when it expired in August. The CWU, which represents more than half the employees at the channel formerly owned by the controversial Guptas, says there's anxiety among ANN7 employees. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to CWU general secretary, Aubrey Tshabalala

President Jacob Zuma's lawyers have confirmed that their client has met the National Prosecuting Authority's deadline and submitted representations on why he should not be prosecuted for fraud and corruption. They say the representations were made late last night. The representations were initially supposed to be submitted in November 2017, but National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams extended the deadline to January the 31st, 2018. A ruling of the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the application of Zuma and the NPA to appeal a high court ruling that the decision of the then NPA boss Mokotedi Mpshe to drop the corruption charges against him was irrational. Abraham has given prosecutors two weeks in which to consider Zuma's representations. Thereafter he will decide whether to proceed with charging Zuma or not.

ETM Analytics Chief Economist, George Glynos looks at a R15.7bn surplus for Dec and record R80.6bn surplus for the year, the Fed left rates unchanged, NAAMSA vehicle sales and the Barclays Manufacturing PMI and Venezuela appears to be in the midst of another unfolding crisis, SA should pay attention to a good example of how NOT to manage an economy?

- Pres Jacob Zuma submitting representations on why he should not be prosecuted for fraud and corruption.
- Multichoice announces they will remove the ANN7 TV channel from the DStv bouquet.
-Marvel superhero movie #BlackPanther, which has been dubbed as one of the most anticipated movies of 2018, Premiers in Los Angeles.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described the deaths of 144 mentally ill patients in the Life Esidimeni tragedy as one of the the most painful events in postapartheid South Africa. Motsoaledi was overcome by emotions as he apologised to the affected families at the end of his testimony at the arbitration hearings in Parktown, Johannesburg yesterday. Gauteng Premier David Makhura and Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa also apologised and committed to fix the health system during their testimoneis yesterday. As Wisani Makhubele reports, Minister Motsoaledi was the last witness to give evidence as the arbitration will now move to the next stage......

Portfolio Manager at Ashburton Investments, Wayne Mccurrie looks at Asian Markets with massive cash flows and massive profit growth at Merafe resources and perfect storm and a tale of two halves for Spur....

Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance says it expects the various South African regulatory bodies to co-operate with other regulators in Germany and the Netherlands who are currently investigating Steinhoff. The German authorities are currently investigating Steinhoff for alleged accounting irregularities. The JSE, Reserve Bank and Financial Services Board are among the South African regulatory and statutory bodies that will appear before a joint parliamentary committee along with Steinhoff today. We speak to Finance Committee Chairperson Yunus Carrim.

Former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana has revealed damming evidence against various prominent people with business and political influence. Among those implicated are one of the Gupta brothers, President Jacob Zuma's son Duduzane, former Treasurer General Zweli Mkhize, Former Transport Minister Dipuo Peters and various prominent business people who allegedly had links with the Guptas. He also told the committee that Deputy Public Enterprises Minister Ben Martins was not telling the truth about a meeting with one of the Gupta brothers, Tony. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent tells us more.