Just two days before the delivery of the 2018 State of the Nation the jury is still out as to whether President Zuma will deliver the speech or his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa.

Will the ANC, despite their internal differences, allow Zuma to deliver what may be his farewell speech and wait for the no confidence vote in parliament? Or will action be taken and Zuma forced to step down before Thursday's address?

Tiso Blackstar associate editor Ranjeni Munusamy speaks to BusinessLIVE editor and former editor of the Sunday Times Ray Hartley along with political editor of Business Day Natasha Marrian.

Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his first speech as ANC president at the close of the ANC's 54th National Elective Conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg on Wednesday night.

It wasn't a landslide and it wasn't without contestation but the former deputy president of the ANC and South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa was narrowly voted into the leadership position on Monday at the 54th ANC conference at Nasrec. While many members of the public and the markets breathed a sigh of relief it remains to be seen just how the new president will not only start mending a divided ruling party, but put a stop to the gushing wound that is state capture of the country's institutions.

Ray Hartley, former editor of the Sunday Times and online editor of BusinessLIVE at the Tiso Blackstar Group and recent author of 'Ramaphosa: The man who would be king' joins us in studio.

Outgoing ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe, in his last address to the media on Monday said "dirty tricks" plagued the run-up to the party's elective conference‚ currently under way near Soweto.

Listen to the full press conference.

Mantashe likened the ANC leadership race to the succession battle in the Nationalist Party‚ following the assassination of apartheid founder Hendrik Verwoerd.

ANC president Jacob Zuma addressed delegates at the party's 54th national conference taking place at Nasrec, Johannesburg, Saturday 16th December, 2017.

Vigilantes are believed to be behind the 11 killings that rocked a Cape Town community on Friday night, 29 September.

Police said they were investigating whether the killings in Marikana‚ east of Cape Town International Airport‚ were linked to seven murders— also being treated as the work of vigilantes — on Tuesday.

In the third episode of our Stolen podcast, we talk to senior investigative journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika along with deputy Sunday Times editor Sthembiso Msomi about what it takes to be an investigative journalist and why it’s better to bring a knife to a fight with a lion, rather than a gun.

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“Can we bring social learning to the rest of the Olifants River Catchment?” – Dr Taryn Kong

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How we developed flood risk indicators for Maruleng

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