he EFF has rejected Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's apology. It has instead described him as a liar and called for his immediate resignation. Nene publicly apologised on Friday after he failed to fully disclose his interactions with the Gupta family. Nene's apology comes three weeks before he presents the Medium-Term Budget speech. It also casts a shadow over his political credibility at a time when President Cyril Ramaphosa is demanding ethical leadership. Elvis Presslin spoke to EFF's national spokesperson,Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi

The organisers of yesterday 's protests in Ennerdale and Eldorado Park, south of johannesburg, say they will continue with protest action until President Cyril Ramaphosa and Gauteng premier David Makhura pledge action against crime, gangsterism and the economic exclusion of South Africa's coloured communities. The protests started after a Westbury mother - Heather Peterson was fatally shot and and her 10-year old niece wounded after being caught in the crossfire of an alleged gang shootout. Jamaine Krige reports,Elvis Presslin spoke to Mike Bolhuis &Dr Leonard Martin,

President Cyril Ramaphosa says now that the 2018 Jobs Summit has ended, the task ahead will be to focus on implementing of the framework agreement. The agreement which social partners, government, business and labour signed, entails that 275-thousand jobs will be created per year. When Ramaphosa officially closed the summit in Midrand, Johannesburg, he proposed that it be held bi-annually. He says the presidential Jobs Committee will monitor the initiatives and programmes that stemmed from the just-ended jobs summit. Elvis Presslin spoke to Publc Policy specialist and Lecturer at University of Northwest Kagiso TK Pooe about the retrenchments

This Saturday on the show we looked at the new cabinet approved mining charter and progress with regards to women economic empowerment

We started the week with the newly elected COSATU president, Zingiswa Losi, saying she's confident that the Federation will move forward and ensure that workers, especially women, are protected in the workplace. And the other big was on the re-allocation of 45-billion-rand in public spending is at the heart of a new economic recovery plan announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Friday..Political editor at the Mail & Guardian & SABC , political Editor Dumisani Hlophe takes us through the week's top stories...

South Africa has recently seen school based violence escalate to levels of murder of a teacher by a learner, filming of fist fights as well as a learner being stabbed with a pair of scissors. Trade Union SADTU has expressed its concern for the safetey of its teachers whilst School Governing Bodies say its unacceptable that a learner can threaten a teacher when the relationship between the two should be the same as parent and child. Befedile Moerane filed the report for us... And Elvis Presslin caught up with National Association of School Governing Bodies Spokesperson, Matakanye Matakanye & Department of Basic Education Spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga.

Sunday edition of The Weekend View where we looked at the role of black consciousness in modern day politics. Also with the popular slot The Editors

This saturday edition of the Weekend View we spoke about crime statistics and ways to curb crime and also looked at the dwindling number of learners taking accounting as a subject

We started the week with the bad footing. Ratings agency Moody's warning that the South African economy's slide into recession in the second quarter will exacerbate the fiscal and monetary challenges the country is facing. The ratings agency is the last of the "big three" international agencies to put South Africa's long-term foreign-currency debt in investment grade. Kevin Davies, Business editor at the Mail and Guardian had this to say about this and other stories of the week & SABC Acting Assignment Editor Tshepo Phagane

Kenyan authorities have reportedly been conducting a crackdown on illegal immigrants for the past three months due to an upsurge of illegal immigrants and drug trafficking. The Kenyan government have mostly deported migrants with illegal or no work permits as well as those in the country illegally. Human rights group Amnesty International has criticised the move by the Kenyan government saying it lead to Xenophobia. It said Kenya's Immigration Department has even set up a hotline number for citizens to report irregular migrants in their neighbourhoods. We earlier spoke to KBC Channel 1 News Anchor and Reporter, Jacob Kioria about the operation......