New York City’s first and only black mayor has lauded Nelson Mandela’s vision and the steadfastness he displayed when he first visited the city after his release from prison in 1990. David Dinkins was reflecting on a specific town hall event Madiba attended in Harlem during that historic visit to the United States 25 years ago. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

South African National Parks (SANParks) have exonerated the safari guide and the motorist who allegedly drove over a leopard of any wrong doing.

Gauteng Economic Development MEC Lebogang Maile says $93 billion will need to be invested annually until the year 2020 to address Africa's infrastructure deficit.

Teddy Bear Clinic Director Shara Omar says they salute the new amendment because as it was in its original form, the bill was unfair towards children.

Family Policy Institute Director Errol Naidoo says the ruling by the Constitutional Court to decriminalise sexual intercourse between children was a bad ruling.

One caller says she welcomes the new bill adding that she doesn’t have any problem with her daughter having sex as long as she doesn’t fall pregnant.

Selected news and current affairs clips from SABC radio and digital journalists, used on the SABC News website (www.sabcnews.com).

Selected news and current affairs clips from SABC radio and digital journalists, used on the SABC News website (www.sabcnews.com).

Two of the four trade unions at the gold mining industry wage talks in Boksburg have revised their salary demands downwards,the unions are Solidarity and NUM.

Authorities are still clueless about the whereabouts of about 86 initiates, kidnapped from an illegal school at Libode in the Eastern Cape.