The Ethekwini Municipality says it has no intention to stop marchers who intend taking to the streets of Durban in protest against President Jacob Zuma's leadership on Friday. Various organisations countrywide have proposed marches to force president Zuma to step down. Municipality spokesperson Mthunzi Gumede says those who plan to march for or against the president should follow proper channels in order to do so...

The organisers of Friday's planned national shutdown have renewed their appeal to ANC leaders to join their action at persuading President Jacob Zuma to step down. As much as the protest seems to be gaining support, issues of race are coming into play especially on social media. Could this march see both black and white people unite for a common goal or will race be used to play on people's minds? We spoke to Managing Director at Diversi-T, Teresa Oakley-Smith...

Market analyst, Nerina Visser looks at South African markets as latest round of ratings news, S&P downgraded the major South African banks yesterday, and Moody's have put the same banks, as well as several parastatals and corporates, also on a downgrade review. This has put further pressure on the Banking sector, yesterday there were a number of economic data releases that gives us better insight into the state of the South African economy and a different picture emerged from the Purchasing Managers' Index, which expanded for the 7th straight month..

Former Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has resigned as ANC MP while the Motion of No Confidence in President Jacob Zuma will be debated on the 18th of April. Peters is one of the five Ministers who was fired by President Zuma in a cabinet reshuffle last week. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent has more.....

Newly-appointed Communications Minister Ayandla Dlodlo has hit the ground running having met with various stake-holders including the SABC. This comes at the time when the interim board has been tasked by parliament to fix some of the problems facing the SABC.

The organisers of Friday's planned national shutdown have renewed their appeal to ANC leaders to join their action at persuading President Jacob Zuma to step down. As much as the protest seems to be gaining support, issues of race are coming into play especially on social media. Could this march see both black and white people unite for a common goal or will race be used to paly on people's minds?

Parliament has scheduled a debate on the Motion of No Confidence in President Jacob Zuma for the 18th of April. In a statement Parliament says that the speaker received several letters from parliamentary political parties requesting an urgent scheduling of a motion of no confidence in the President.

Market analyst, Nerina Visser of ETF SA looks at South African markets as last day and a half has been dominated by discussions around credit ratings, so I think today we should focus on other issues, preferably good news stories! Tell us about petrol prices, vehicle sales figures for March was released on Monday, but I guess it got somewhat ignored due to other news. What did we learn about the state of the motor industry and transnet unveiled what has been termed the 'first locomotive to be designed, engineered and manufactured in Africa...

The ANC Stalwarts have joined calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down. This follows a recent downgrade by ratings agency Standard and Poor after Pravin Gordhan was fired as the Minister of Finance. The stalwarts have spoken strongly against the manner in which the decision to remove Gordhan was taken. We spoke to Chairperson of the ANC Stalwards, Dr Mongane Serote and International Union of Psychological Science president and former Robben Island prisoner, Dr Saths Cooper...

Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba has acknowledged that the recent credit downgrade by ratings agency Standard and Poor's is a setback. Gigaba has urged South Africans to unite in order to reignite the country's economic growth. While addressing members of the media in Pretoria on Tuesday says he has not been able to meet with former minister Pravin Gordhan. Our reporter, Amina Accram reports