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News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm... more
FAQs about Update@Noon:How many episodes does Update@Noon have?The podcast currently has 10,234 episodes available.
February 17, 2016One person arrested following clashes between police protesting UCT studendsOne person has been arrested following violent clashes between police and protesting University of Cape Town students last night. Police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse a group of students on the main campus. Police were called in, to help a private company demolish a shack erected by members of the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Lyndon Khan reports from the university.....more3minPlay
February 16, 2016Zimbabwe impounds cargo plane after a body was found on boardZimbabwe police say its still assessing the matter of a dead body found in a compartment on a South African bound cargo plane. The U.S based private plane was enroute from Germany to South Africa when a technical fault forced it to land in Zimbabwe. Blood was seen coming from a crevice on a side of the plane and the body of man was found. The plane was hired by the South African Reserve Bank to carry newly printed notes from Munich to Durban in KwaZulu Natal. Shingai Nyoka reports...more2minPlay
February 16, 2016Afriforum responds to land reform plans outlined in SONA2016Afribusiness says President Jacob Zuma is creating more investment uncertainty with his land reform plan outlined in last Thursday's State of the Nation Address. Afribusiness says this undermines the constitutional right to own property and they will fight this all the way to the Constitutional Court. Sakina kamwendo spoke to the spokesperson for AfriBusiness, Stefan Pieterse......more7minPlay
February 16, 2016EFF and COPE MPs will take part this afternoon in SONA debate this afternoonParliament has confirmed that both EFF and COPE MPs will take part this afternoon in the debate of President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address. This is despite both parties disrupting the president's address last week. Members of these two parties were ordered by the presiding officers to leave the chamber after continuously disrupting the address. Lulama Matya reports...more5minPlay
February 16, 2016Investigations underway in case of a woman allegedly found in possession of ARVsKwaZulu-Natal police say investigations are underway in the case of a woman allegedly found in possession of boxes containing anti-retroviral medication. Last week, forty-year-old Nomvuso Gloria Sithole, briefly appeared in the eMpangeni magistrate's court in northern KwaZulu-Natal, on a charge of theft and illegal possession of a schedule 4 prescribed drug. Nonkululeko Hlophe reports...more3minPlay
February 16, 2016Nerina Visser at ETF SA on Moody's downgrade of Anglo Americans debt to junk1. The market rallied very strongly for the second day in a row yesterday. What was behind this latest move?2. Late yesterday we received news that Anglo American has been cut to so-called junk status by rating's agency Moody's, yet this has been one of the best performing shares year-to-date, so why the downgrade?3. So it all comes back to commodity prices once again. But is this all just due to economic slowdown in China?...more7minPlay
February 16, 2016Inter-ministerial task team has had a series of meetings getting first-hand infoThe inter ministerial task team has had a series of meetings getting first hand information and also assessing the situation at Lily Gold Mine near Barberton, Mpumalanga.The team arrived at the mine this week following another collapse of two rocks into the shaft, in which the three mine staff members are still trapped under ground.The mine management described the weekend incident as the ongoing scaling down of the side walls. Motsebi wa Monareng reports...more3minPlay
February 15, 2016Disciplinary process against Hlophe will be argued in at Supreme Court of AppealThe lawfulness of a disciplinary process against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe will be argued in the Supreme Court of Appeal today. The case is being brought by Constitutional Court Justices, Bess Nkabinde and Chris Jafta. The two were initially meant to be the principal witnesses against Hlophe at a Judicial Tribunal hearing. They have since lost their arguments at the tribunal and in the high court in Johannesburg, which refused them leave to appeal. Konelo Lekhafola reports...more2minPlay
February 15, 2016No specific reason why whales have been beaching along the Cape coastlineThe City of Cape Town's Environmental Management spokesperson, Gregg Oelofse, says there's no specific reason why whales have been beaching along the Cape coastline in the past three months. This comes after the carcass of a six metre long Southern Right whale calf was found on the rocks at Bantry Bay, Sea Point along the Atlantic Seabord yesterday. Corbin August reports.....more2minPlay
February 15, 2016DA backing Glynnis Breytenbach who is facing criminal chargesDemocratic Alliance Federal Council that met in Cape Town over the weekend is fully backing DA MP and former Prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach who is facing criminal charges for contravening the NPA Act and defeating the ends of Justice. The NPA says it has a winnable case to successfully prosecute Breytenbach who appear in the Pretoria Magistrates Court today. Our Parliamentary Correspondent Mercedes Besent reports...more4minPlay
FAQs about Update@Noon:How many episodes does Update@Noon have?The podcast currently has 10,234 episodes available.