On the Coal-Face feature today Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly looks at New technology has slashed the use of electricity at Glencore’s giant chrome beatification plant, New technology will next year unlock a ton of gold that cannot be mined conventionally and New technology is recovering gold from process waste that normally ends up on the trash heap...

Deputy Agriculture Minister, Bheki Cele says communities have a responsibility to make sure that criminals never have peace wherever they are. He was addressing Vosloorus residents, who packed the local community hall to discuss crime yesterday (Tuesday). This follows the murder of Bafana Bafana Captain, Senzo Meyiwa who was gunned down in the township over a week ago. The meeting, organised by the ANCYL in Gauteng, aims to highlight the need for the community to get involved in the fight against crime. Wisani Makhubele has more

Nedlac constituencies to the Presidential Labour Relations Indaba, have reached an in-priciple agreement on a national minimu wage. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa who presided over the Conference says a task team made up of representatives of business, government, labour and the community will work out a framwork for a final agreement by July next year. The central issue to be tackled is the model of a national minimum wage for South Africa. Frank Nxumalo compiled this report and presented by Sisanda Jonas...

Yesterday, Eskom has started rolling blackouts across the country, due to the loss of 1 800 Mega Watts at the Majuba power station. The power Utility has implemented rotational load shedding, to deal with damages that were caused by the collapse of its coal storage silo at the Majuba power station in Mpumalanga.Residents in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni, and Cape Town have experienced power cuts. AM Live host Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Eskom spokesperson Andrew Etzinger.

NADIR THOKAN , ANALYST FROM 27 FOUR INVESTMENTS LOOKS AT:

1. Increase in volatility on the JSE over the last three months and what has caused this?
2. Central banks diverging monetary policy strategies with particular reference to the FED and bank of Japan
3. Finally ..Corporate governance at SA companies and the issues at HCI and PPC

South Africans should brace themselves for yet another series of power cuts by Eskom. The power utility says in a statement the load shedding would start at 8 a.m. and run till 10 p.m. It says it has lost one-thousand-800 megawatts at the Majuba power station that was now operating at a reduced capacity of one-thousand-300 megawatt. Eskom spokesperson, Andrew Etzinger....

This month in our health slot we will be looking at Diabetes as the country highlights National Diabetes month. Professor Larry Distiller, Managing director and Principal Physician of the Centres for Diabetes ..

The Panel: Rhulani Baloyi- SABC News Editor/ Dion Delport- Editor at Independent in KwaZulu-Natal & Janet Whitton- SABC Deputy Sports Editor

Over 55 million hectares of land in Africa have been "grabbed" since 2000, according to research presented at a conference earlier in the week. Dr Blessing Karumbidza, senior research associate at the Durban University of Technology, says more land had been "grabbed" in Africa between 2000 and 2012 than in the rest of the world combined. He made a presentation on behalf of Prof Robert Home from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom. Land grabs were broadly defined as large-scale land acquisitions which displaced vulnerable communities and farmers, with disregard for the rights of these people and social and environmental impacts. Executive Director of Gravitazz Continental Initiative Milan Atam...

The founder and chair of Tshisevhe Gwina Ratshimbilani (TGR) Corporate and Commercial Attorneys, Peter Tshisevhe has been named as one of the best Mergers & Acquisitions lawyers in the Best Lawyer's International 2014 listing. A peer-reviewed listing of excellence, it is produced in the United States and published in over 65 countries worldwide.