The Weekend View

Public Protector candidate interviews are scheduled to be held next month. This follows the shortlisting of candidates to become Thuli Madonsela's successor. Madonsela's term ends in October. Of those chosen, 8 are women and 6 are men mainly from the legal profession. For more on the composition of the list, Elvis Preslin caught up with the chairperson of the adhoc committee, Dr Makhosi Khoza

Thousands of people protested in Istanbul and other cities after calls by Turkish authorities to defend democracy after the failed military coup.Meanwhile Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says about 2,839 soldiers, including high-ranking officers. One of them is commander of the Second Army General Adem Huduti He also said 161 people have been killed and one thousand four hundred and 40 wounded. Stephen Kirker spoke to Vhafui Matsila one of the South Africans in Turkey

The Department of Basic Education says it is hopeful that a solution will be found soon, to enable more than 54-thousand learners who have been absent from school for more than three months to resume their studies. MEC of Education in Limpopo, Ishmael Kgetjepe...

Pan Africanist Congress struggle hero Kenny Motsamai has tasted freedom although very limited. He was released on conditional parole after 27 years behind bars. Motsamai has been in prison since his arrest and sentencing to life imprisonment for his part on an Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) mission to rob a supermarket in Rustenburg in 1989. APLA Commander and PAC member, Rev Dumisani Methula and Kenny Motsamai spoke to Elvis Presslin...

The National Credit regulator is conducting raids across the country to root out credit providers contravening the National Credit Act. Manager: Investigations and Enforcement at the NCR, Jacqueline Peters discusses this further with Elvis Presslin...

Former SA ambassador to Turkey, Tom Wheeler speaks to Elvis Presslin on the latest coup attempt in Turkey. Turkish authorities say 60 people died during overnight clashes, many of them civilians, and more than 750 soldiers arrested.

French President Francois Hollande is to chair crisis talks with his inner security cabinet following Thursday's attack in Nice that killed 84 people. Jordan Griffiths, researcher at Media Tenor speaks to Elvis Presslin on these attacks...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has told civil servants they shouldn't have gone on strike because of the delays in paying wages. Some teachers and healthworkers staged stay-at-home strikes to protest the late payment of June salaries. Hardlife Mudzingwa of Thajamuka speaks to Elvis Presslin about this ..

The inception of Black Lives Matter movement three years ago, following a series of killings of blacks and other minorities by police in the US has brought simmering racial tensions in the country to the surface. This past week alone, graphic videos portrayed two more such deaths and five police officers were killed at a march in Dallas protesting the killings. Whites have joined blacks in forceful calls for unity that transcended colour lines. We spoke to Mikateko Baloyi, a Chicago based Marketing Analyst and community outreach and youth development consultant.

RIght to know has sent a letter of demands about media freedom in Zimbabwe to the Minister of International relations Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.This follows a nationwide strike or stay-away which became known as #ZimShutDown 2016. It was prompted by a number of incidents in Zimbabwe that had occurred in the preceding weeks and months. Right to know spokesperson Murray Hunter explains...