The Weekend View

A joint military exercise begins in the Northern Cape this Sunday and will end on the 7th of November. The AMANI AFRICA joint military exercise is aimed at evaluating the state of readiness of the African Standby Force and its Rapid Deployment Capability.We spoke to Public Information Officer for the exercise, Captain Jaco Theunissan...

A twenty-year-old woman has appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate's Court on a charge of human trafficking. She was arrested for trying to sell her own child online for five thousand rand. Meanwhile...Johannesburg will be one of nine cities around the world to host a simultaneous walk to bring awareness to the international issue of human trafficking. The 'Walk For Freedom' follows international Human Trafficking Awareness week which was observed earlier this month and was organised by NGO, A21 Campaign which fights against all forms of human rights violations and the Rhema Bible Church. We spoke to A21's Mandy Murugan....

Elvis Presslin speaks to Economics reporter, Francis Herd on the SABMiller - the global beer giant founded in South Africa - accepting "in principle" a new takeover bid from rival brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev.

With October been Transport Month, South Africans are being encouraged to find alternative means of transport. Last week Gauteng launched the Ecomobility initiative, while another alternative is carpooling. Transport month is used to raise awareness on the important role of transport in the economy and to encourage participation from civil society and business, including the provision of a safe and more affordable, accessible and reliable transport system in the country. President of SANTACO, Philip Taaibosch and RTMC spokesperson, Simon Zwane chat to Elvis Presslin about transport month and the issue of taxi's and reckless driving in the country.

Elvis Presslin spoke to Presidential spokesperson, Bongani Majola and Kathleen Hardy, attorney representing 36 family's of Marikana killings in August 2012 on government's commitment to engage legal representatives of the claimants

Health minister, Aaron Motsoaledi and Dr Kim Faure on a study by the CDDEP on the overuse of antibiotics worldwide

The National Consumer Commission has launched a preliminary investigation into a number of businesses that the Reserve Bank suspects of being pyramid schemes. The commission says the nine initiatives popular travel club, WorldVentures and Instant Wealth Club are suspected of contravening the Consumer Protection Act (CPA). We took to the streets to ask ordinary South Africans what their understanding of pyramid schemes is, we also spoke to National Consumer Commission spokesperson, Trevor Hattingh on how the issue came to their attention and MD of the Banking Association of South Africa, Cas Coovadia on comments from some listeners who voiced concerns that commercial banks are up in arms about the initiatives because the practice is taking away business from commercial banks

Teacher unions and the basic education department are at loggerheads over the Annual National Assessments, or ANA's. The department postponed the ANA's from this month to December; however SADTU - and other unions - are threatening to boycott them in December. COSATU says the ANA's do not add value to the South African system while the Democratic Alliance says its laid a complaint with the Human Rights Commission against SADTU for allegedly violating children's rights to education. We spoke to education department spokesperson Elijah Mahlangu, SADTU's Deputy General Secretary Nkosana Dolopi and labour analyst, Terry Bell...

Elvis Presslin spoke to National Consumer Commission spokesperson, Trevor Hattingh on a preliminary investigation into nine suspected pyramid schemes for suspected contraventions to the Consumer Protection Act

MSF or Doctors without borders' Borrie Le Grange talks about the situation of migrants trying to get into Europe and what MSF is doing to help.