Mental health patients in 160 NGO's in Gauteng are in dire straits because the provincial Department of Health has stopped funding them. According to the DA, staff at some of the NGOs have not been getting their salaries, while others are considering to take the Department to court. because the provincial Department of Health has stopped funding them. According to the DA, staff at some of the NGOs have not been getting their salaries, while others are considering to take the Department to court.

SA Prisoners' Org for Human Rights says they are angered by what's happened at Sun City Prison where inmates were treated to strippers. SAPO's spokesperson Miles Bhudu told Sakina Kamwendo that they will not point fingers to the the Department of Correctional Services. Investigations are now in full swing following the emergence of images, that went viral on social media, of female strippers entertaining prisoners at Johannesburg Medium B Prison, also known as Sun City. Acting National Correctional Services Commissioner, James Smalberger, has promised that the officers implicated in the breach of security will face the full might of the law.

SACP Second Deputy Secretary, Solly Mapaila, has once again accused President Jacob Zuma of being an instrument of factionalism within the ANC. Mapaila was speaking at the North West provincial elective conference of teacher's union SADTU in Rustenburg. He re-iterated the SACP's view that Zuma should step down. Lucas Mothibedi reports ...

The truth about the death of struggle hero Ahmed Timol will finally be revealed. An inquest into his death which mirrors that of Steve Biko will start on Monday in the High Court in Johannesburg. While this is relief for the family, it comes too late for his deceased mother who testified in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Angela Bolowana compiled this report...

Market Analyst, Maudi Lentsoane of Lehumo Investments looks at Asian Market as shares have begun the week on a high and the falling Oil Price negatively impacting the value of the Sasol Inzalo BEE Scheme

Market Analyst, Nerina Visser of ETF South Africa looks at South African markets as focus on the fact the we are currently in a technical recession pesists, referring to the fact that we've recorded two consecutive quarters of contraction in GDP, new National Treasury director general Dondo Mogajane addressed media for the first time at the weekend and immediate implications of the recent credit ratings downgrades have been on the ability of South African companies to issue new debt at the same prices as before...

ANC veteran and former MP Ben Turok turns 90 years old today. But he had an early birthday party at Salt River in Cape Town on Saturday evening. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent takes a look at some of the political times and life of Turok, who was ANC MP for 18 years....

A handful of Congolese nationals living in South Africa have protested outside the Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria against the visit of DRC president, Joseph Kabila. The protesters say Kabila is not the legal president of the DRC and therefore, cannot act on behalf of the country. They claim he intentionally delayed the presidential elections in 2016 until 2018 so he can remain in power. Kabila has already served two terms as president. Liela Magnus reports .....

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila has committed his government to creating conducive conditions for the resumption of a dialogue to unlock the impasse over the staging of the national elections. This emerged after a meeting between Kabila and President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria yesterday. Senior Political Correspondent Tshepo Ikaneng has filed this report.

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Joseph Kabila has committed his government to creating conducive conditions for the resumption of a dialogue to unlock the impasse over the staging of the national elections. Bongi Gwala spoke to DRC national and political and social commentator Dr Juliene Kaku Katombe says there is a genocide currently under way in Zimbabwe