The Best of Afternoon Drive with Bongani Bingwa

The Best of Afternoon Drive with Bongani Bingwa

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  • Speculation as Eskom pushes release of financial results to next week

    Eskom says it postponed this morning's announcement of its annual financial results - in order to meet with unions who've raised concerns about the possibility of power stations closing down. But the utility says the delay has nothing to do with irregularities that have been flagged by external auditors. The results will now be presented next week Wednesday.

     

    6 min
  • Another break-in at government building

    Bongani speaks to Gareth Newham, from the Institute of Security Studies as well as international law enforcement expert, Lobo Des Neves, about the latest burglary at the office of Gauteng’s Director of Public Prosecutions. Eyewitness News revealed this morning that intruders gained access to two offices at the building located at Church Square in Pretoria. This breach of security comes less than a week after computers were stolen from the Hawks’ head offices in Silverton.

    17 min
  • Mystery surrounding death of East Rand twin babies

    Bongani speaks to Nonhlanhla Ndobe, a Boksburg mother, who has been unable to bury one of her prematurely born twins for six years now. She told Eyewitness News that she has been left to question whether her baby really did die or might still be alive somewhere. The 31-year-old gave birth to twins at OR Tambo Memorial Hospital on the East Rand back in 2011. She was told by hospital staff that both babies had died, but only ever given one body to bury.

    8 min
  • Gupta brothers accused of sexual harassment

    Three women have spoken out about their personal experience - or knowledge about - alleged sexual harassment while working for the Gupta brothers. One of the allegations surfaced in widely leaked emails‚ the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism and Scorpio reported on Thursday. The leaked emails

    uncovered allegations of harassment by a former personal assistant to Ajay Gupta who only lasted 24 hours in the job after an unsettling business trip.

    9 min
  • Court sets aside PRASA tenders

    Gugu speaks to both Pieter-Louis Mybergh and a representative from PRASA about the earlier high court judgment setting aside a R2,6 billion tender for new locomotives. The judgement said that harm will be done to the administration of justice if this award is not set aside from the onset. The judgement said that 'corruption will triumph if this court does not set aside the tender'.

    7 min
  • ANC Policy conference enters day four

    ANC President Jacob Zuma seems to have 'mantashed' on his position regarding the ANC Veterans and Stalwarts earlier saying that he was impressed with their 'levels of debate' at the 5th ANC policy conference.

    8 min
  • 2017 tax season opens

    South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Tom Moyane has officially launched the 2017 tax season. Moyane was joined by Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba at the Sars branch in Orlando East in Soweto this morning. Sars aims to collect over R1.6 trillion this tax season but has warned that the technical recession could have an impact. The Sars boss has praised the country’s revenue system, saying it's the envy of the world.

    11 min
  • CEO salaries under scrutiny

    Redi speaks to Professor Patrick Bond about a new report by Deloitte that has found that "despite the increasing scrutiny ... executive guaranteed pay increases in general have well exceeded inflation" in the past five years, and annual cash bonuses paid to CEOs and chief financial officers were "large" in relation to guaranteed pay. At an average of R69,000 a day, senior executives at JSE Top 100 companies are earning what an economist has called a "grotesque" amount.

    13 min

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