Five people have been arrested for failing to pay for services from the Johannesburg municipality. This follows a revenue collection blitz led by city mayor, Herman Mashaba. The city is owed just under one-billion rand for water and electricity. There are about 2 000 businesses which have also defaulted. We speak to Johannesburg executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba.

Nadir Thokan from Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments looks at US jobs numbers for December, the Naspers problem on the JSE and just how serious the debt problem at Eskom is.

Reports of the eminent arrest of the sons of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe are picking up steam. The reports first surfaced through an independent Zimbabwean newspaper citing corruption and illegal gold trading as some of the allegations levelled against the duo. This comes as current President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government embarks on a major corruption crackdown, which has already claimed some senior government officials.

The Tshwane University of Technology has given the assurance that it has put measures in place to deal with any eventualities. It says although it has places in some fields of study, it will not allow any walk-in application on its campuses. The university says students who wants to apply to study should do so online. The EFF has urged prospective students to turn up at higher institutions of their choice to register. The move follows President Jacob Zuma's announcement on free higher education last month. we speak to TUT spokesperson Willa de Ruyter.

-Unisa has announced that some students can study for free in 2018.
- Zimbabwe Cricket announced that the National Team Bowling Coach, Makhaya Ntini has tendered his resignation.
-Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey takes home 2018 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver the eulogy at Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile's funeral on the 16th. President Jacob Zuma has accorded him a special official funeral. In New York City on Saturday, friends and scholars of the late "Prof" Kgositsile gathered to commemorate his life through poetry. The event came as a last-minute memorial on the sidelines of a major literary conference. Nthakoana Ngatane reports

The family of a 14 year old boy who is still in hospital following a horrific train crash on Thursday says they are happy that all family members who were on the train are alive. Six members of the same family boarded the train from Theunissen town in the Free State. The Shosholoza Meyl train was travelling from Port Elizabeth to Gauteng when it collided with a truck at a level crossing between Hennenman and Kroonstad. Nineteen people died and more than hundred people were injured. The boy sustained multiple fractures. Aphumelele Mdlalane reports....

With just over a week before the start of the new school year on the 17th, 31-thousand Grade One and Eight applicants are yet to be placed in Gauteng schools. They include 14-thousand late applicants from a group of 22-thousand. The other 17-thousand applied on time, but have not accepted placement offers at their second or third choices because their first choice schools were full. Gauteng Education MEC, Panyaza Lesufi revealed this as he briefed the media on his department's readiness for the new school school year in Johannesburg (Sunday). Wisani Makhubele reports.

The ANC has turned 106 years old today and its president Cyril Ramaphosa together with other five officials will pay tribute to four former party presidents in KwaZulu-Natal later this morning. They include Josiah Gumede, Pixley Seme, Albert Luthuli and the party's founding president Langalibalele Dube. Last week the party's national chairperson Gwede Mantashe visited the grave of the longest serving ANC president Oliver Tambo in Wattville east of Johannesburg. Ntebo Mokobo reports...

Invesment Analyst with 27-Four-Investments' Nadir Thokan looks at how the markets looking in the first few days of the new year, where to for Steinhoff now, what could happen to the JSE if foreign flows reverse and highlights from US jobs numbers that came out on Friday.