A 21-year old mother who was seen on a social media video feeding her two-year old son alcohol and dagga is today appearing before the Dzanani Magistrate's court. The woman was arrested on Saturday with another woman who cheers the child on in the video. The video - which shows two women giving the child a bottle of cider and urging him to finish it, as well as giving him dagga, went viral over the weekend. Police spokesperson Motlafelo Mojapelo says the pair will be charged with contravening the Children's Act. We spoke to our reporter Pimani Baloyi…

The Department of Social Development is discussing a possibility of a universal basic income grant for South Africa's poor. Speaking during a government social cluster briefing on Monday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu, says the Covid-19 pandemic, had spurred discussions on how the poor will continue accessing support once the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant is discontinued. The grant will cover people between the ages of 18-59 and who are falling in-between the cracks. We spoke to the Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu.

The Democratic Alliance has filed an urgent application to interdict Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's authorization of funds for South African Airways' (SAA) restructure using his emergency powers under Section 16 of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). This comes after the Department of Public Enterprises confirmed that the government had met the business rescue practitioner's July 15 deadline to provide a letter committing to "support and source funding" for the airline's restructuring needs. The DA's Shadow Minister of Finance, Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked the court for an interim interdict to stop the minister's emergency authorization to use public funds to fully or partly fund the rescue plan pending a review of the decision...he spoke to us.

Students' organisation COSAS in Mpumalanga will today embark on a process to shut down all public schools in the province. This as teachers' unions intensify their call for schools to close down in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The Congress of South African Students in Limpopo says it also plans to shut down schools at Seshego outside Polokwane on today. COSAS says it is not satisfied with interventions by the Department of Education in the province at schools. We spoke to our reporters is Mpumalanga and Polokwane, Motsebi Monareng and Katlego Nyoni, respectively.

The Human Rights Commission has come out in support of South African schools staying open and more children returning, saying it supports findings from Unicef that more damage is done to children by not returning. The commission says it had become aware of studies that showed children were suffering more while at home, having lost between 20% and 50% of their scheduled schooling since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. We spoke to Commissioner Andre Gaum, of the South Africa Human Rights Commission.

The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it intends to submit a Section 77 application at Nedlac following the decision by President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow the taxi operators to fill their taxis to full capacity. The Federation is pursuing the Section 77 of the Labour Relations Act which covers a viable protest action to promote or defend socio-economic interests of workers. We spoke to Cosatu's National Spokesperson Sizwe Pamla.

The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has welcomed the commitment by National Treasury that government will support and source funding for a business rescue plan for South African Airways (SAA), which will result in the emergence of a new viable, sustainable, competitive national airline. On Tuesday, 86% of SAA creditors voted in favour of the proposed business rescue plan. A 75% vote was needed for the business rescue plan to be adopted in order to save SAA from going to liquidation. We spoke to Aviation Expert, Linden Birns.

More and more teacher unions are calling for schools to close. They want schooling suspended until after the COVID-19 peak has passed. Over 1,500 pupils and teachers have contracted COVID-19 since schooling resumed. The World Health Organisation has also warned against the re-opening of schools while local transmissions of the coronavirus are on the rise.However,The Council of Education Ministers has hit back, saying only the Cabinet can decide whether schools will stay closed or not. The council said groups and individuals who are not empowered by law do not have the authority to close schools. We spoke to Allen Thomspon, President of the National Teacher's Union (NATU) and got reaction from Elijah Mhlanga, Spokesperson for the Department of Basic Education.

SAA and its associated business rescue practitioners are today in a meeting with creditors and employees as the debate surrounding liberation versus liquidation rages on. In the lead-up to today's meeting, the Department of Public Enterprises, led by Minister Pravin Gordhan, has called on both unions and creditors to support the creation of a new national carrier. Today, the business rescue plan - which could cost the South African taxpayer anywhere been R16 billion and R30 billion to save SAA - will be voted on by the national carrier's creditors. If less than 75% of stakeholders vote in favour of the business rescue plan, SAA will be face liquidation, which, if finalised, will result in diminished severance pay-outs…To help us better understand the significance of today's vote, we spoke to Aviation Analyst, Desmond Latham.

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, has died at the age of 59...we spoke to ANC veterant Tokyo Sexwale who pays tribute to her.