FNB SERIES: Why does coaching matter for entrepreneurs? Today we focus on how coaching can help entrepreneurs to grow and expand their businesses. As you know that FNB is committed to educating SMEs and equipping them with the right tools and advice to promote, grow and market their businesses.

Guest: Heather Lowe, Head of SME Development at FNB Commercial

KwaZulu-Natal police are investigating three murder cases and two of attempted murder following the brutal shooting of three women in Umlazi south of Durban. It is alleged an unknown suspected entered two rooms in an informal settlement and opened fire killing three sisters and injuring two children.

Guest: SABC News reporter, Vusi Khumalo.

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse is taking the National Energy regulator, Nersa to court over its decision to grant generation licences to Karpowership. The civil advocacy says Nersa’s decision is not in the interest of South Africans and wants the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to take it on review and set it aside. Karpowership South Africa is one of the preferred emergency power plan bidders by the energy regulator and has been given the bulk of the 2 000 MW of capacity that needs to be procured. OUTA says this decision was not transparent and Nersa failed to provide the public with the necessary information in order to comment in the process of granting licenses.

Guest: Advocate Stefanie Fick, OUTA’s head of legal affairs.

A 45-year-old woman from a settlement in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal was arrested and charged with the murder of her four-year-old daughter. According to the police, the woman revealed that she had forced the toddlers head in a bucket of water and held it down until she stopped moving. Apparently, she did this because the toddler was difficult and troubling her. Joining us to talk about how one/parent should deal with a naughty child is…..

Guest: Nga Morombedzi, Advocacy Manager, Women and Men Against Child Abuse organization

SABC News Political Editor, Mzwandile Mbeje will this evening interview Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. The CJ is expected to spell out his vision for the judiciary. You may recall that among the issues he said he would tackle during his tenure would be to ensure the Office of the Chief Justice achieved complete independence.

Guest: Mzwai Mbeje, SABC News Political Editor

Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has told South African companies that his country is open for business opportunities in the exploration of oil. He was speaking at the start of his one-day State Visit currently under-way at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. This as South Africa is trying to increase its energy capacity by exploring new opportunities in countries like Guinea Bissau. Emballo and President Cyril Ramaphosa will also discuss ways to improve bilateral relations between the two countries and issues of mutual interest.

Guest: Khayelihle Khumalo, SABC International Reporter

Legal expert Mpumelelo Zikalala says there is no valid reason for Advocate Malesela Teffo’s dramatic arrest in court today. Teffo is the defence lawyer representing four of the five suspects in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case. Police arrested him following a warrant of arrest that was obtained in January. He claims the warrant is fraudulent.

The involvement of women in the struggle against apartheid is not accurately recorded as many women who took part in it were erased in history. Women found themselves not only fighting against racism, but sexism and patriarchy too. Strides have been made in the fight against sexist religious, cultural and social norms that disempower women. Different policies have been put in place to ensure their inclusion in spaces that previously excluded them. However, challenges still prevail. How has South Africa improved the status of its women in the past 28 years. Have the legislative interventions been effective?

Guest: Dr Athambile Masola, Historical Lecturer at UCT, interested in black women’s historiography.

Limpopo police have arrested a suspect following the shooting of a 38-year-old woman at Mamojela Park informal settlement outside Lephalale. Linah Motlohelwa was fishing along Mogol River when a man fired a shot and wounded her. The suspect aclaims he mistook Motlohelwa and the person she was with for a hippopotamus.

Guest: Limpopo police spokesperson Colonel Maphaswa Seabi