Youth Centres across the country play an important role in the rehabilitation of young street children. It is often the need to escape from poor circumstances at home, that drove them onto the streets in the first place. As the country commemorates Youth Month, Port Elizabeth is home to a youth centre where boys aged between six and 18 are placed by the court. Veronica Fourie paid a visit to the Khayalethu Youth Centre

A representative of a charity organization will today testify on behalf of the convicted Paralympian, Oscar Pistorius. The testimony will be Pistorius' last bid to convince the court to deviate from the prescribed minimum sentence of 15 years for murder. Pistorius is back in the Pretoria High Court after the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned his culpable homicide conviction last year, finding him guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Phanuel Shuma reports

Twenty-one-year-old Henri van Breda is expected to appear in the Stellenbosch Magistrates Court today in connection with the murders of three members of the Van Breda family more than a year ago. Van Breda handed himself over to police earlier. Thandi Mawu reports

The son of former SABC news anchor and board member Hope Zinde, has been formally charged with her murder and possession of drugs. Mark Warona Zinde appeared briefly in the Brits Magistrate's Court in the North West yesterday. He was arrested at the weekend following the discovery of her mother's body in a car boot at her Pecanwood Estate home in Haartebeespoort, west of Pretoria..Phumzile Mlangeni reports.

Objectives:
_- To understand what the youth of 1976 stood and fought for?
-To establish what the youth of today are fighting for?

Guest: Ntombizikhona Valela is doing her MA on the intellectual work and value of Winnie Mandela. She is framing Mandela as a vernacular intellectual

Guest: Mikaela Erskog is doing her MA on some of the most influential Pan African figures such as Miriam Tlali, Bessie Head and Noni Jabavu

Guest: Prof Teffo Letsiba - He is attached with UNISA

The Congress of South African Trade Unions has given Mpumalanga's Lily Gold Mine management three days to recover the bodies of three mine workers. In February, the three workers were trapped underground when the container they wee working in, collapsed into a sinkhole. Recovery operations remain suspended at the mine, until it is safe to continue. The union marched to the mine to hand over a list of grievances to management. Motsebi wa Monareng reports

Should South Africa re-evaluate its current electoral system of proportional representation at national and provincial level? And if it were to be changed, what should take its place? These are some of the questions raised at an event organised by the Progressive Professionals Forum in Cape Town last Thursday. The forum invited the Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, John Jeffery, to speak on the topic of whether the current electoral system is still relevant. Joseph Mosia reports.

IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has called on supporters not vote for party members contesting the elections as independent candidates. He was speaking at the party's election manifesto launch at the King Zwelithini stadium at Umlazi, south of Durban Yesterday. The IFP has committed itself to accelerating service delivery including water, sanitation and electricity. Meanwhile, party candidates signed a pledge committing themselves to clean governance. Skhangiwe Mthiyane report

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has dispatched a mediator to Canada to help resolve pay dispute between firefighting agency- Working on Fire and the South African firefighters. Trevor Abrahams is sent as mediator to Canada after the three hundrend and one firefighters downed tools demanding that their payment be increased and that they be compensated in accordance with Canadian labour laws. The group left South Africa at the end of May to assist in bringing under control massive fire outbreaks that have engulfed Canada's Aberta province. The wage dispute has forced the Canadian government to order striking firefighters to leave that country. For more on this we are now joined on the line by Albi Modise, Who is the Head of Communications at the Department of Environmental Affairs

Arguments for aggravation and mitigation of sentencing in the Oscar Pistorius trial will begin this morning in the Pretoria High Court. Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal overturned the High Court's ruling of culpable homicide - finding the former Paralympian guilty of murder. Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home in February 2013. He was also found guilty of the negligent discharge of a firearm and acquitted on two other gun-related charges. Noma Bolani compiled this report outlining expectations for the sentence hearing..