The Weekend View

THE Congress of the People (Cope) has laid corruption and fraud charges against the SABC Group Executive for Corporate Affairs Hlaudi Motsoeneng .The party alleges that Motsoeneng benefited unlawfully from the sabc - multi choice deal without authorisation of the board in 2013. Dennis Bloem, COPE's spokesperson tells us more

About 38 African states convened this week for an action plan to harness the cash economy under the auspices of the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) in Durban. It emerged at the conference that the popular mode of conducting business in the continent involves cash transactions that are largely unrecorded, and gobble at least 38 percent of the continent's GDP in terms of unaccounted tax. Discussions centred mainly around the African cash economy and its implications for domestic resource mobilisation. Logan Wort, executive secretary at the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) speaks to Elvis Presslin

Between 800 and one thousand children in South Africa are diagnosed with cancer annually but these figures could be higher as some are never diagnosed. Lorraine Govender from CANSA speaks to Elvis Presslin about childhood cancers

Wits University Students have vowed that no lectures will take place on Monday after Wits management postponed the General Assembly scheduled for yesterday (Friday). They claim they could not reach a consensus with students. A Wits council meeting is expected to be held this weekend to decide on the future of the 2016 academic year. student representative at Wits, Mcebo Dlamini and Chairman of Former SRC President's, Tiego Moseneke spoke to Elvis Presslin about the situation there.

Wits university student leadership has rejected the results of a poll that was conducted by the university. In a poll conducted via SMS, e-mails and web-links, a majority of students and staff want lectures to resume on Monday. The university has been shut for almost two weeks. This follows violent protests on campuses across the country after Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced that universities can raise tuition fees for the 2017 academic year‚ but the increases must not exceed 8 percent. We spoke to Wits spokesperson Shirona Patel

Professor Sallim Vally, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education and Director, Centre for Education Rights and Transformation University of Johannesburg speaks to Elvis Presslin about the unhappiness by students regarding the fees announcement. The on and off Fees Commission - established by President Jacob Zuma to investigate the feasibility of a free education has returned to Pretoria once again. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has again warned that he will close down institutions which continue to be violent and ungovernable. ANC veteran, Winnie Madikizela- Mandela, says the weakness of the rand and the risk of junk status is worrying.

Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba gave his first speech as Johannesburg's mayor this past week. However it wasn't without disruption. In his speech, Mashaba shocked many when he announced that the money budgeted for bicycle lanes around the city would be used for other service delivery issues. Elvis Presslin questions Mashaba about these and other issues...

The NPA has placed Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba and Advocate Lawrence Mrwebi on special leave. The future of the two senior NPA officials is in the balance after the Pretoria High Court ruled on Thursday that they should be struck off the advocates' roll. Both intend to file for leave to appeal. Advocate Zola Majavu. the Lawyer for Advocate Nomgcobo Jiba speaks to Elvis Presslin

Sibongile Ramotshela, Right to Care's Cervical Cancer coordinator speaks to Elvis Presslin about the high rate of new cervical cancer cases in South Africa annually

The ANC has distanced itself from the views of its Chairperson of the Sub Committee for Economic Transformation Enoch Godongwana that the Hawks' investigation of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is politicallly motivated. Godogwana's comments are the most recent comments by ANC leaders which openly contradict each other. Political analyst, Prof Somadoda Fikeni speaks to Elvis Presslin about what is going on in the government....