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Police have shot and injure a suspect hiding inside the Nyanga Junction Shopping Centre near Manenberg last night following the release of the last 10 hostages. Police say they went back to search the centre after the hostages were freed yesterday. They also found two weapons used in a robbery at the Shoprite store. A security guard was fighting for his life last night after he was shot during a hostage drama. Ten hostages were freed after a nearly 12 hour ordeal when an attempted armed robbery quickly escalated into a hostage situation. Police experts, including Task Force members and hostage negotiators, were on the scene. Chris Mabuya reports

The SACP says if it were in COSATU's position, it is not likely to have invited President Jacob Zuma to address the main May Day rally. Some COSATU affiliates say the labour federation's decision to invited Zuma to address the rally in Bloemfontein is not consistent with its call for him to step down. Several other rallies will take place across the country. Trade union NUMSA and the newly-formed labour federation SAFTU will observe Workers' Day in Durban. COSATU's tradition as a tripartite alliance member is that the ANC president should speak at the May Day event. We caught up with SACP spokesperson Alex Mashilo for more details...

COSATU is adamant that its alliance partner the ANC has deployed its president Jacob Zuma to address the main May Day rally in Bloemfontein. The Trade Federation President Sdumo Dlamini says ❝Looking at it from where you'd be standing, you'd day no this thing doesn't make sense. It's the same person on all the positions but the point here is - the ANC had deployed its president. We don't want this May Day to be overshadowed by that issue. It has got to be known what the workers are saying in South Africa❞. Numsa's Irvin Jim says Cosatu is confused

SAfm listener Felix in Nelspruit, Mpamalanga explains what economic and political freedom- says political freedom is a vehicle to economic freedom, which is now being stripped

Keeping the tri-partied alliance whole is of utmost importance says the ANC Treasurer General Dr Zweli Mkhize. He delivered a Chris Hani Memorial lecture in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape. He also said that the concern of South Africans about the development in our polity, economy and the debate on state capture cannot be denied. Our Reporter Nkululeko Nyembezi was there and filed this report

Lungile Malinga, Equity Research Analyst at Effectus Capital Management looks at the Asian Markets Markets, Producer Price Inflation figures came out on Wednesday and Business Leadership SA says there is more pain to be felt in SA foreign direct investment after the credit rating downgrade in SA.

Several students who wrote the Multiple Examination Opportunity introduced by the department of Basic Education last year January have been left in the lerch. One of them, an SAfm listener, Lee Fearick, who sent us a message on Twitter says he wrote his last paper in July of 2016 at Sir John Adamson High School in the South of Johannesburg and is still to receive his matric results. 21 year old Fearick split his matric subjects so he could write them over two years, taking advantage of the Second Chance Matric Programme that is supposed to give learners who failed matric an opportunity to re-write and hopefully obtain their matric. Gauteng was the first province to run the programme. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to SAfm listener Lee Fearick and Gauteng Department of Education spokesperson Oupa Bodibe

The Communication Worker's Union (CWU) has added its voice in calling for President Jacob Zuma not to be allowed as a guest speaker at the May Day celebration on the 1st of May. This follows a request to COSATU by the National Education Health and Workers Union (NEHAWU) that President Zuma be replaced by an eligible leader of the ANC as the main speaker at the rally. Is this another way of showing cracks within the Alliance and its partners? Sakina Kamwendo chats to Mining and Labour Analyst from Creative Voodoo Consulting, Mamokgethi Molopyane.

23 years later, Dr Hleze Kunju's doctoral thesis, written in his home language of IsiXhosa, has been described as ground-breaking and a glimmer of hope for a decolonised and transformed education system in the country. He speaks Dr Kunju for more details on his journey of the development of indigenous languages for academic writing

Struggle Stalwart Omar Badsha says South Africa has a government that is NOT united which is making things very difficult. Speaking to Sakina Kamwendo on #AMLive said Mr Omar says we are in the middle of a crisis that needs to be well handled.