The Weekend View

Substance abuse in South Africa has the biggest impact on the country than ever before. According to the South African Police Services, 60-percent of crimes committed are due to substance abuse. Clinical psychologist, Nathan Rogerson; Conny Nxumalo, the Deputy Director General of Welfare Services at the Department of Social Development and actor and 2011 Survivor winner, Hykie Berg...

Dr Roelf Reyneke speaks to us about the issue of bullying in the country

Prof Raymond Parsons talks to Elvis Presslin about the Eskom tariff increase request

Retha Watson, the National Manager for trauma and suicide prevention from the SAPS Psychological Services, employee health and wellness talks to us about the impact the death of a police officer has on his/hers colleague

Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe and Oxfam's Sipho Mthathi speaking about the AU Summit currently underway in Sandton, Johannesburg

Listen to Numsa's general secretary Irvin Jim on and analysis with labour analyst Terry Bell

The Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights of Communities has threatened to take municipalities to court if they do not reverse decisions to re use graves without tombstones. This after the eThekwini Municipality this week received numerous complaints from residents about strangers being buried on top of their loved ones without their consent. For more on this we spoke to the Commissioner, Sheila Khama....

The 31st of May is World Health Organisation's World No Tobacco Day and this year the focus is on stopping the trade of illicit tobacco products. The day aims to highlight some of the health risks associated with tobacco use and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption. We spoke to Director of Tobacco, Alcohol and Gambling Group, Peter Ucko...

Sepp Blatter has, as expected, been re-elected for a fifth term as president of world football body FIFA. The vote took place at the 65th FIFA Congress in Zurich, after a turbulent 48 hours that saw a number of FIFA executives arrested on charges of bribery and racketeering. We spoke to soccer columnist with The New Age, Neil Collins....

South Africa's unemployment figures increased by 626-thousand, in the three months to March 2015. While the expanded rate of unemployment which, includes people who have given up looking for work, also increased to 36.1 percent. But how are graduates affected by this? We spoke to entrepreneur and founder of the RA House of Isis media house, Ntsako Mbhokota and Dr Iraj Aberdian, economist and CEO for Pan African Advisory Services...