It never happened.

That was the gist of the testimony by a confident and elegantly dressed Duduzane Zuma who swanned into the state capture inquiry on Monday, ready with answers to a barrage of questions.

Sunday Times political reporter Amil Umraw has been following the commission and provides us with a detailed summary of day one of Zuma's testimony.

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court ruled that smacking a child is illegal, prompting reaction on all sides of South African society.

The irreversible judgment has left some South African parents confused and conflicted about how best to raise well-behaved children.

MultimediaLIVE spoke to the two opposing parties that argued the case, about what impact they felt the judgment would inevitably have on South African society.Tune in and join the debate:

The 30th Alan Paton Award has been won by Terry Kurgan, for her moving family study Everyone Is Present. Michele Magwood spoke to her about photographs and memories.

Busloads of Nigerians said their final goodbyes to South Africa on Wednesday morning.

Despite staring poverty in the face, four busloads of people who had been confronted with violence in Johannesburg left from the Nigerian Consulate to begin the trip of approximately 7,000km to Nigeria.

Ben Okoli from the Nigerian Citizen Association South Africa (Nicasa) said most of the foreigners who took their places on occupied the buses had owned shops and businesses in South Africa for several years.

Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu has won the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize for her novel The Theory of Flight.

She tells Michele Magwood about her inspiration for the book and the writers that have influenced her.

Businesses in the township of Alexandra and throughout Gauteng have been under siege since Monday night as residents attacked and looted stores in the area. 

MultimediaLIVE spoke to Police Ministry Spokesperson Lirandzu Themba about what the minister plans to do about the ongoing violence.

Gratuitous display of the apartheid-era flag demonstrates a total rejection of reconciliation and a clear intention to be hurtful and incite harm.This is according to Gauteng deputy judge president Phineas Mojapelo.In an equality court matter on Wednesday, he found that displaying the old flag constituted prohibited hate speech, discrimination and harassment.Mojapelo made this ruling as he passed judgment in favour of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the SA Human Rights Commission in their application that the display of the 1928 flag be classified as hate speech.

Tiso Blackstar senior soccer reporter Marc Strydom in a telephonic conversation with former Orlando Pirates head coach Milutin Sredojevic. The Serbian coach quit his Pirates job in a huff on late night Friday August 16 2019. He cited personal reasons and said that he quit because he had to attend to his sick mother who is suffering from breast cancer. Sredojevic, however, was unveiled as the new Zamalek coach a day later.

South African soccer legend Marc Batchelor is heard on a voice note talking about what he's willing to do to get his fiancée, Cheré Gray, back. He commits to giving her R50,000 monthly, among other things.

Not long ago, the idea was pure science fiction. But now the idea of mankind and robots combining to create super-intelligence is actually happening.

But what does this mean for my job? That is the biggest concern for most people when they think of the encroachment of artificial intelligence in the workplace.

It becomes the question of what kind of planet do we want to create? We get some time with the humanoid robot Sophia and her inventor Dr. David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics.