The South African Constitutional Court faces mounting institutional strain due to a dramatic increase in its workload, receiving close to 400 applications annually—more than tripled since 2010. This expansion of jurisdiction, combined with limited human resources, threatens the court's ability to fulfill its constitutional role effectively. The average period between hearings and judgments has more than doubled over the past decade, with applications for leave to appeal often remaining unresolved for months. This situation highlights the need for both short-term measures (such as applying the test for granting leave to appeal more tightly) and potentially long-term constitutional amendments to address the court's capacity challenges.
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During trial, he told the court that the confession was false, claiming he was forced to confess by a drug lord. Today, Judge Kasim Musa postponed the matter after identifying discrepancies in the post-mortem reports of the deceased.
Musa says it's in the interest of fairness and justice to delay the judgment until the discrepancies have been resolved. The court noted that there was a challenge that it experienced in relation to the numbers on the post-mortem examination reports that were compiled for the 76 deceased persons.
>> 13 illegal migrants have been arrested in a high level operation targeting criminality and bylaw violations in the Joberg CBD today. The suspects were caught at a local butchery near the MTN taxi rank. Police arrested the migrants after they tried to evade arrest by hiding on top of fridges. Joe Mayor Dada Morero says the operation forms part of a crackdown on illegal activities within the city. There's still a heavy police presence on several streets within the CBD with officers working alongside home affairs to verify the status of some of the migrants. JMPD spokesperson.
And we also do understand that before we actually went to the MTN taxi rank and at the bery uh further six uh individuals were arrested for the contravention of the immigration act. So it's uh in total six plus seven and definitely the operation will continue not only checking for uh your status being in the country but also compliance with the city bylaws. The NPA has moved to clarify reports surrounding a prosecutor at the center of a dramatic Imbumalanga court saga, insisting it never officially declared him missing.
Muselindaba was found in contempt of court yesterday after failing to arrive for a high-profile bail application at the Guapafantine Magistrate's Court. The matter against taxi tycoons Joe Ferrari Siboni, Bafana Sindani and two others who faced extortion and moneyaundering charges was subsequently struck off the role with the court also issuing a warrant of arrest for Daba. Mongeso has more.
>> The development sent shock waves after the NPA confirmed it had been unable to reach or locate Indaba following his failure to appear in court. The chief magistrate sided with arguments by the defense led by former NPA boss Shaun Abrams. The legal implications are significant as matters struck off the role in these circumstances cannot simply resume in court but requires a fresh decision by the director of public prosecutions to reenroll it. NPA special director of public prosecution.
>> We we have not been able to to track him and uh speak to him. We have an unprecedented incident.
>> However, NPA spokesperson Kaiser Kanyaho has since pushed back against the claims that the authority had formerly treated in Indaba as a missing person. the impression that he had disappeared, but that that's not necessarily the case, but we will have to hear after the report is sent to us.
>> The NPA says internal processes are now underway as it prepares to receive a full explanation from Unaba over his absence. Monkey Ziko Eyewitness News.
>> Anti-aparted activist Reverend Frank Chigan has told the TRC cases inquiry that a former parted police minister and former police commissioner approached him with regards to his poisoning desperate to keep their foot soldiers out of jail. Chagan is testifying before the inquiry today with his poisoning and the alleged cover up of the crime taking center stage today. The commission led by retired judge Cece Khan Pepe is probing delays in prosecuting aparted era crimes. Chagana survived a poisoning in 1989 while in Namibia where his clothes were laced with a deadly nerve agent intended to induce a heart attack.
Dakato luro reports. Giving his evidence in chief Reverend Frank Chigan has told the TRC case inquari that he endured severe trauma following torture and an attempt on his life where his clothes were laced with poison by aarted era security operatives. Chane says he survived only because of his role at the time as secretary general of the ACC.
>> I would have died in Namibia. What they didn't calculate is that we're going to stop and have breakfast and delayed whilst that chemical is working on you, delayed arriving where they thought I would die.
>> He told the inquiry that as he began digging for information and trying to piece together the tapestry of how he was poisoned, it became clear that former aparted police officials were primarily focused on protecting their subordinates from prison.
Eyewitness News in New Town, Johannesburg.
>> And in Spain, police have arrested the eldest son of the founder of clothing empire, Mango. Jonathan Andich was taken in by police in connection with his father's death during a hiking trip in December of 2024. Isak Andich plunged to his death on the mountains near Barcelona. While on that hiking trip, investigators initially treated the death as an accident with early findings suggesting that Issach may have slipped.
Investigators along with prosecutors and the court then reopened the investigation in October last year after citing inconsistencies in the Sun's testimony.
Gold is trading at $4,543.94 an ounce. The rand is at 1665 to the dollar, 2232 to the pound, 1935 to the euro and Brent crude oil is at $110.37 a barrel.
>> Ptoria road work slowing down traffic in for eastbound between Rosland and Bravery Road. Herman start still in Swani traffic sluggish on esam that's leaving the Ptoria CVD between Fandov and the R8. And in your sport, Arsenal will be transfixed on the Vitality Stadium this evening as their title rivals Man City meet Bournemouth. This is after they picked up a 1-0il win over Burnley in the Premier League yesterday to open up a five-point lead. The Spring Women announced their squad for the upcoming Rugby Africa Women's Cup and two WBC belts set to be on the line in Riyad come September.
>> It's a partly cloudy afternoon in Khaen today with isolated showers expected.
Temperatures have peaked at highs of between 16 and 19 degrees. The top story in EWN this hour. Judgment in the case against the man accused of starting a fire at a building in the job CBD in 2023 which killed 76 people has been postponed to June.
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A very good afternoon everyone. It's 9 minutes past 3 on Tuesday the 19th of May. This is 702 drive with me John Pearlman. Wherever you are listening to us in 702 land, welcome to the show. How concerned should we be about the growing number of Ebola cases on our continent?
>> Early on Sunday, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over an epidemic of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
>> That was the director general of the WH Tedros Adonom. Working closely with the World Health Organization on this disease is our own Professor Helen Ree.
She's with us after 5 to talk about the global and continental implications and of course what has been the response.
The constitutional court has been in the news over the past fortnight for making big decisions on Pala Pala and national health policy. But behind the imposing facade of the courtroom and the eminent judges in their green robes is growing concern that our apex court does not have the resources it needs to do its work as thoroughly as it should. Chris Oxbe joins us from the organization Freedom Under Law. They've been looking at this. He's with us at 10 4. One of the highlights of every cricket summer is the New Year's test at Newlands down in Cape Town, one of the most beautiful grounds in the world. Our national test captain, Timber Buma, certainly regards that ground as very special.
>> Edged. It's gone fine. Will it go for four 100 for Timber? Timber, you beauty.
>> That was where Timber Buma scored his first test century against England back in January 2016. England are touring again this summer. South African fans would be hoping to go there and see the captain or any of the other 10 players do something special as well. But when tickets went on sale yesterday, South African fans were in for a shock. Where did all the tickets go? Some people are saying there weren't any for sale at all. Cricket journalist Neil Manthorp has been looking into it. He joins us for that story at 10 to 4. But if you're trying to book for the Newand's test and you've got some experience of your own to share, please do drop me a note on 072721702 and 018830702.
As we do every day, we'll talk about music in the last half hour of the show.
Most days, we try and talk about the positive energy we derive from the music that we love. But is there a song that can actually ruin your mood? Maybe this one.
Yeah, one member of the team picked that as a song that they absolutely cannot stand. So, send us the songs that are capable of ruining your mood and tell us why that is and we promise not to play any of them. Well, no, we don't actually. We might, but you can send them to 07272172 and 018830702.
On the markets today, the all share down by 300 points. Boxer has lost 5 12%.
Pick and pay is down by 3.4. Mr. Price down by 2.4%.
On the upside, Bites is up by 4.1.
Alphan and Process have both gained 3.3%.
Brand is trading at 16 rand 64 against the dollar. Pretty much where it was yesterday. A euro will cost you 19 rand 34. Small weakness over the last 24 hours. 22 rand 32 will get you a pound.
That's a 5cent fall over the same time period. The oil price, talking of things that might ruin your mood, is up by $137.
is currently trading at $1114 for a barrel of Brent crude. The gold price down by $24.15 an ounce. Platinum weaker too by $20.70.
Steven Crutus joining us with all the market news at 25 4. We'll have sport with Anthony Tasha Karabali has the traffic news and Embalid Lamini joins us at 3:30 with the very latest news headlines. This is 702 drive. We're live in the place where you live. If it's happening in 702 land, you'll hear about it here first. But there is stuff that you know about uh that we don't know much about. Perhaps it's something happening in your neighborhood. Perhaps your grapevine has sent you a particularly juicy piece of fruit. Send us uh please your SMSs, your WhatsApps uh or give us a call if you've got something to add to the news agenda or particular take on a story we might be covering but not completely on top of.
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>> Of course, we'll do traffic in a moment with Karabot Chali. That means a lot of you are in your cars. And since you're in your car at the moment, here's a question for you. What do you keep in your car that other people might consider a little strange, odd, unusual, doesn't really matter. Uh how you want to particularly label that something you keep in your car that maybe a lot of people don't. Give us a call on that on 01883 072 and 0727021702.
Jonathan Febin, a very good afternoon to you. You drive a nice car, but maybe it it houses some odd contents. Afternoon, John and afternoon to our 702 family and our team. So, I have a cricket bat in the boot of my car. And funnily enough, on Sunday, we went out to meet some friends and arrived at the parking lot at the same time.
>> Okay.
>> And I wanted to get my jacket out of my boot and opened up the boot. And my mate, who was standing there looked in my boot and he was like, "Oh, wow. What you got this in your boot for?" It was the Duncan Fley cricket bat that I had when I was in Matrix.
>> Okay. and he took it out and I mean the grip is all frayed and really really shot to pieces and um he was like wow this is still so um well lincied oiled and I wonder if it would still hit cricket balls um so I don't know if it would still hit cricket balls or if it would break or snap but um he was really amazed by that and he was like why do you have it so I said well you know in case one day I get into little bit of trouble on the road I'll just have to say to somebody let me open my car door, run to my boot, open the boot, and get my cricket bat, and then we can have a little interaction. So, yeah, I mean, that's the theory behind it. But, >> yeah, I mean, the problem with that is you get the bat, but then while you're putting on your pads, the chances of the guy decking you, I think, are really, really high because, you know, >> yeah, I'll probably be on the floor, the tar floor already by the time >> I always struggle to get my pads on with any kind of speed. So Jonathan Fairburn drives around with a cricket bat in the boot. The grip a little bit old, but it's welloiled. Um, but he himself is a little bit skeptical as to whether this really makes him any safer. Karabali, how about you? If we were to get a stop and search order and have a look inside your car, what would we find? I've got a a couple of things. First is a camp chair. So that's for in case maybe I'm visiting friends and um or we're chilling at a park and maybe there's nowhere to sit >> or school sports >> or school sports. I always have um a camp chair ready there. And the other one I've got a couple of um you know those um ice cream containers, empty ice cream containers. So it's like a captain. So if I visit Mono for dinner and there's some leftovers, I'll be like captain give me some so I can take home.
Um, so that I don't take his tap away because you know how tapaway they never come back.
>> No. And well and and then friendships go the way of of the missing the missing item. But tell me this. Do you go in with the with the ice cream box? But >> No, no, no, no. I don't. Yeah.
Oh, by the way, oh, maybe John will be like, do you want me to give you some for home? I'll be like, yeah, don't worry about yours. Let me go grab mine in the boot.
>> Sure.
>> Yeah.
>> Considerate very well. Even you even remember to wash it when it's finished back in the boot.
>> There's a couple of them.
>> Sure.
>> Okay. So, I've I don't think I keep anything very interesting in my car, but when um this thing came up, the what we were going to chat about, I was reminded of a guy I worked with many many years ago, and by legend, he was a guy who, cuz we got paid with checks, um would take his check and cash it out, um and take his whole salary and put it in the boot for when he'd go. Yeah. I mean, obvious kept some back. Obviously, there was rent to pay and stuff like that, but he always kept a whole lot of money in the boot. So, if you were out chawing with him and you know there was a plan, okay, let's move on and go somewhere else where there might be a cover charge or whatever, you say, "Hold on, just go to the boot and get a bit of extra cash there." Angel was talking. Those were the days, eh? 702 drive. Let's find out what's happening out on the roads. Let's hear what you keep in your car that might be a little unusual in other people's view but makes complete sense to you and even if it doesn't make any sense to you tell us anyway Kaba how we looking well at this stage in the city of Touani on roadwork still slowing down traffic this afternoon this is on the N4 eastbound uh between Roslin and Bravery Road in Herman traffic sluggish on Eskam pel between Fand and the R8 in Northcliffe Expect some delays on Bayer's no dear between judges and the N1. Uh if you come across any other traffic issues, kindly WhatsApp us on 072721702.
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>> Zong the palapala issue. What is it that presidenta must answer for?
>> He must answer for having undeclared dollars to the tune of over $800,000.
If I can come to your house and I see that you've got large stack of South African rents, I would think that you're involving criminal activities.
Therefore, as South Africans, we need to have that comfort to see that our head of state is not compromised and is not under any other influence.
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>> 23. We're going to go to downtown Joberg in a moment, but just quick responses to some of what we've shared with you already today. We played uh Kabazella's choice of a song that ruins his mood.
Anxiety by Doi. Well, Vousani on the line from Mas has a very different view.
Says, "It picks me up and it picks up my kiddos's moods, too. I was already dancing uh when you played that." So, I guess one person's food is another person's audio poison, etc., etc. And then big thumbs up for Karabchali and his ice cream scuff tunes at the ready and says I really like the ice cream container idea says Mages very considerate considerate guy. There we go. You have a small round of applause there for you. 24 minutes past 3.
>> Drive home with John Pman >> on 702. Let's walk the talk. Well, earlier today you may have heard our EWN colleague Jabu Lebata talking about yet uh another um operation carried out by city authorities uh targeting buildings suspected of criminal activities.
They've also been trying to collect money that they say they are owed and they've been demolishing illegal structures as well. It seems though they might have hit a legal snag and Job is with us now just to update us on that.
Tobala, I understand they were targeting a very particular building uh in the city. Tell us where they were going and tell us how come lawyers are now involved. Good afternoon.
>> Good afternoon, John. So, the building in question is uh Marble Towers. It's a 23story building. So the building itself is not necessarily the problem but this illegal structures that were built around it in the same yard um for business people. So this is something that's not approved by the city um you know despite it being there which is why now the city has gone to court because the owners of um that building structure have gone to court to you know try to stop the city um from demolishing these structures. So the matter was at the court today at the high court uh while we were actually um following the officials doing the rounds in Johannesburg CBD. But what we understand is that um you know it it wasn't concluded and only tomorrow will we hear um what the verdict is whether the city will be allowed to demolish these structures or if the owners of these structures would have won and allowed to continue um operating their businesses despite you know not having a building uh plan approved by the city or having these structures um you know approved.
Uh so that's what we're waiting for.
Tomorrow we'll continue following the story. So that's actually just uh what happened today.
>> Thanks very much Jabala. An important update though as soon as things go to the courts. It suggests that the response to the city has a degree of organization and and potentially muscle behind it. So important story. Any updates? Look out for Jabulele uh contributing to the next EWN bulletin which is coming your way in the next four minutes. 26 minutes past 3.
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>> Well, we are so used to being able to do everything that we think we need to do on the internet. Of course, some of it is essential and some of it is merely enjoyment. But when you find yourself uh faced with internet service providers not being able to do their job, well, we all get pretty unhappy. However, in this particular instance, it would seem that South African web hosts are the target of a deliberate extortion campaign. To find out more about this, who's doing it, and how this might affect services, we're joined uh by Duncan Mloud regularly with us. He is the editor and founder of Tech Central, an excellent website where you can read up on all of these kinds of issues. Duncan, good afternoon and thanks very much for giving us your time. who is driving this uh particular set of attacks uh on our web hosts, South African web hosts and and why they're doing it. Good afternoon to you.
>> Um hi, good afternoon John. Yeah, this is a very interesting story that's still very much in development. Uh the attacks are are happening as we speak. Uh there is an organization calling it that's claiming to call itself Black Matter that has attacked five South African uh telecommunications infrastructure and hosting companies, internet hosting companies. Um Black Matter was the name of a of a ransomware group that disappeared many years ago. And it's quite possible in fact likely even that this isn't the real name of the uh of the attacking group. What we do know is that the scale of this attack which is done in the form of a what's called a distributed denial of service or DOS attack where internet lines are flooded with junk uh for for for long periods of time, >> right?
>> Um uh is um is happening at the sort of scale that only a very large cyber criminal group could do or a nation state government could do. So there's a lot of questions um being asked about why this is happening. Now there are there have been emails received by some of these hosting companies if not all of them demanding the payments uh of um an amount of money in a cryptocurrency called Monero. Um that um amount they're asking for uh converts into rand um works out to about 16,000 rand per demand. goodness, >> which is a tiny amount of money um given the scale of chaos that these attackers are causing to South Africa's internet infrastructure at the moment. Um it is a it's a discrepancy that we that that that um is raising lots of questions and and very few answers at this at this stage. This is clearly a very large uh group that is mounting this attack on on South African internet infrastructure.
Um, but yet it's it's and the cost of mounting an attack like this is orders of magnitude higher than the amount of money that they are trying to extort from local hosting providers, which according to the experts I've been speaking to all day today, uh, are suggesting that there may be something more nefarious, more malicious at play here that we're not aware of yet. Um, >> possibly a trial, a trial run of some kind. it that's one of the things uh that has been suggested to me that that there may be attempts to excfiltrate data going on that um that this could in fact be a a um an attempt to to probe the uh you know the infrastructure of South Africa's internet to see what's possible and what can be done. Um but it's costly to mount something like this in the order of tens of probably tens of thousands of US dollars per attack. So it's costing the attackers a lot of money to do this. um we don't know where they're coming from. Um it's it's they're mounting it from servers across the world. Uh so it's not coming from any single source. Um and and again the the the the absolute volume of this traffic that's the junk traffic that's being flooded onto these networks is far in excess of the um of the uh actual capacity many of these companies have to the internet. So they it's it's taking them offline and unfortunately many South African websites uh have been um offline or intermittently available for much of the day including some major uh websites. I know News24 for example was offline for a for a while this morning because of these DOS attacks.
>> Thank you so much. uh will watch it with considerable interest. But if you want to follow it uh closely in an ongoing way, head to the Tech Central website, tee ceentral.
That was the editor and founder Duncan Mloud.
Right, let's get the very latest eyewitness news with Bali Lamini. Good afternoon to you, Bali.
>> Thanks, John. Good afternoon. The legal battle between the owners of the Marble Towers building in the Johannesburg CBD and the city of Joberg has been postponed to tomorrow. This after the city cut off water and electricity to the building over a 14 million rand debt. Yesterday, the owners filed an urgent interdict to try and stop the demolition of illegal structures in the building's yard. Today, while the team was in court, trucks and TLBs stood by at that site. Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero says the city also found people living in the same space where they work which cannot be allowed to continue.
>> There are no plans they and even if they were to be planned there's no way such structures can be approved as they are hazardous in in their very nature.
>> Judgment is expected tomorrow after arguments were heard today. We take you now to another court story which contains some disturbing details.
There's been another delay in the court case of the woman accused of beheading her sister. 63-year-old murder accused Alleta Rose made a brief appearance in the Belleville magistrate's court today.
Rose was expected to bring a bail application, but instead requested an African speaking lawyer. Camry Clark reports. A letter Rose entered the courtroom and immediately objected to being filmed by the media before proceedings had begun. Her legal aid lawyer informed the court that her client did not want her as a legal representative and didn't want an interpreter. The court was further told that no instructions had been received regarding her bail application. Rose's bold speech and direct conduct drew attention in court. The son of the murder victim, Menow Rose, said her behavior was nothing more than a delay tactic.
>> I'm really quite surprised because that is not how I that's not how I know my aunt. The matter has been postponed to Thursday when Rose will appear via video link from PSMA prison to determine whether an African speaking legal representative has been secured for her.
Camry Clark, Eyewitness News, the Belleville Magistrate's Court.
>> And in Syria, police are investigating a car bombing in Damascus. It's understood one person was killed in the incident.
The person is believed to have been a soldier. According to reports, a security source says the explosive was likely planted in a vehicle near a building a affiliated with the defense ministry. AFP is currently reporting that a correspondent in the area heard an explosion before seeing a car burning near the building. Security forces have now cordoned off that area. It's a partly cloudy afternoon in Khaen today with isolated showers expected.
Temperatures have peaked at highs of between 16 and 19°. Herman start Ptoria leaving the Ptoria CBD the slowmoving traffic on Esam between Fandov and R8 while if you're leaving Santon also bumper bumper traffic uh this is on Greyston Drive between Ravonia road and Katherine Street and in Baronia uh there's a traffic pressure on Clip Rafir Drive between the N12 and Bal due to faulty traffic lights >> a top story in EWN the legal battle between the owners of the Marble Towers building in the Johannesburg CBD and the City of Joberg has now been postponed for judgment tomorrow.
>> The midday report >> weekdays >> 12 to1. How important is it for bylaws to be enforced particularly when we see what's going on in the job CBD? Final simply means we are dealing with the issues that are there in the open. But then we've got these organizations from time to time when we go to court they would want to challenge us. And then you make sure what is the intention those organizations are they actually for the city or not. So we have said we had to proceed with the implementation of bylaws but sadly we could not demolish towers court did not sit. We were told the court will be s on Thursday. I think we should be able to take it from there.
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>> Hey John, it's here in my car. I keep a jungle in Casilingo. For you whities, you would call it a hunting knife.
>> Hi John, it's Papaya here from Lenia. I know that this might sound strange, but what I keep in my car, it's um all my beloved uh obituary is the the obituary of my beloved one that passed on. So I make sure that they are there in my cave. I don't know why, but I feel like their memories are with me. Papa from Linesia John, thank you so much for the show.
So, I've got a the nose tremor, the nose shaver. So, I I have that because sometimes you get into the car, you look into the mirror, then you realize that you've got hair sticking out of your nose. So, I've got that for in case I have those times where I need to just use it quickly. So, yeah.
Yeah, very very interesting mix and and papa, thank you. Something in your car that uh gives you a sense of connectedness to somebody you've lost.
When I was asking about uh things that people keep in their cars, uh that wasn't the kind of thing that I had considered, but you've added a very interesting layer. So, please keep them coming. Things you keep in your car that other people might think are unusual.
It's 21 minutes to forward sports time.
EWN Sport >> Anthony Ted a very good afternoon to you Russy Rasmus another honor for him.
Yeah, good afternoon, John. That's right. Springbach head coach Russi Rasmus was honored by the presidency with the National Order of Ekamanga in gold. It recognizes South African citizens who have excelled in the fields of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism, and sport. The presidency noting he had propelled the spring box to repeated Rugby World Cup successes and advanced social cohesion among South Africans. In football, Arsenal will firmly have their eyes fixed on the Vitality Stadium this evening when the Premier League title rivals Man City will be heading to Bournemouth. The Gunners did what they needed on Monday evening with a 1-0il win over Burnley.
Enough to see them move five points clear at the top of the table. And should the Sky Blues slip up and not pick up a victory, it would mean the Gunners have a first league win in 22 years. If reports in England are to be believed, Pep Guardiola will be taking charge of his penultimate match this evening with City. They've suggested that he set a call time on a successful 10ear stay at the Etihut which has seen him lead them to 20 trophies overall as well as the coveted maiden UEFA Champions League title. One manager who certainly will be departing their club at the end of the season is Bournemouth Adoni Areola. A win for the Cherries today would see them continue their quest for a level high level European football and a first campaign in the Champions League. H would be lovely for me would be the best way to finish know this amazing three seasons because I think the team has been progressing especially this year has been really challenging for me as a as a coach cuz we've changed a lot the team and would be the the best way to end it.
>> Also this evening relegation threatened Spurs head to Stamford Bridge to meet Chelsea and in boxing WBC welterbait champion Ryan Garcia confirmed his next opponent is set to be Connor Ben. Both fighters have stellar records with Garcia having lost just three of his bouts with Ben having one loss in his column. He's been suspended though from the sport amid doping scandals for a year. It'll take place September 12th, the same night that Canelo defends his WBC superweight middleweight title.
Anthony Shada, Eyewitness Newsport.
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>> Unusual things you keep in your car or at the very least things other people might consider unusual. Uh Talent says, "I'm always on the road so I keep the following. Serviets, salt, pepper, toothpicks, lip balm, charger and power bank, spoon and fork." So um clearly a certain amount of takeaways uh get eaten and then the other practical stuff there. Anthony Tashada, we we have a warrant to search your car, but why don't we save you the trouble and you just tell us what you've got?
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Yeah. Yeah. Both for in case it gets cold and if it's going to be warm. I have shorts. I also have a tracksuit pants. I have multiple jackets. Uh but the really weird thing I would say is two things. I have a towel in the boot.
>> Okay. Okay, I don't have an umbrella, but I'm afraid of getting wet, so I have a towel to dry myself off, which I mean probably doesn't make sense in the long term. And the other thing is I have a green bouncy ball. And the reason why I've got the bouncy ball in the car is it's probably the only thing it is actually, not probably, it is the only thing that I ever managed to get out of a claw machine.
>> And so I want to keep it as long as possible >> cuz I feel like it's it's lucky. It is 100% lucky. And so hopefully it'll keep me safe on the roads.
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>> Well, watching five-day cricket is one of life's great pleasures in my view.
But if you're a cricket fan from anywhere in the world, watching the New Year's test at Newlands, generally perfect weather, an extraordinary setting, and in this particular case, South Africa up against one of the best countries in the world. By the way, it's the third test in a three test series, so this could be the decider. The new test is on many people's bucket list, but for many South Africans who are down on holiday, it's around New Year, so people are off work, this is a very, very special ticket to get. The problem is when people went online this week to try and get a ticket or two for themselves, family, friends, and so on, there weren't any. Not scarce, but absolutely none. So what's going on there? It is something of a puzzleman, but it's got a lot of cricket fans judging by social media seriously up in arms. Somebody who's been digging into this is someone well equipped to do so.
Neil Manthorp has been writing and commentating about cricket for a good number of years now and he joins us now from Cape Town. Neil, a very good afternoon to you. I read your piece uh on the business day site and recommend it to anyone who wants to get more insight into this. Between then and now, have you managed to find out more? We like you asked Cricket SA to join us on the show. We've we've had no luck, but perhaps you've managed to dig a little further.
>> Thanks, John. Um, good to chat. Uh, no, I've had no luck at all. Nobody has. Um and that's really for me at the moment the greatest source of frustration is that that cricket South Africa are now got a full complement of executives uh in every position whereas a couple of years ago there was you know there was people missing from marketing and and uh and promotions and events and now there's a full executive and nobody has commented you know nobody you know if somebody came out and said look I think we overplayed our hand here look we've we've overcommitted to corporate sponsors um English tour travel companies and uh and we've got it wrong.
We should have held back a couple of hundred or 500 even if it was a token gesture for for local South Africans.
But they've gone to ground. They've just they've they've gone to ground. I mean, I've been digging into um the whole pricing structure and the irony is that English supporters are also up in arms because there's a a bundling system in place which uh so cricket South Africa formed their own travel company SA Cricket Travel with in association with Tvest which is a Johannesburg based um travel agency and English fans are now being given a situ situation where they if they want a ticket they have got to buy it for all four days and it includes a hotel room and uh transport between their designated hotel and the ground.
So they are now saying we you know we've got friends in Cape Town we just like to buy a ticket for the second or the third day and stay privately but they haven't been able to do that. So, it's it's maximizing revenue, but it's being done in a really hamfisted and clumsy way, which is alienating locals.
>> Yeah. And I've just been looking I mean, you noted, and I thought I'd just follow up on the on this point that you did add to your story, Neil, about how these tickets are now finding their way onto massively marked up secondary sites. So for example, day one and it's always great to be there for the very first ball and see the test match match taking shape. If you get a ticket on StubHub, you're in for 20,000 rand 19,750.
I exaggerate. Uh if you get one on Vog go sitting in a similar spot, you can pick up a bargain for just 18,000 rand.
I mean this is insane. My understanding of the face value of these tickets, I I picked up my own for the Wanderers test.
They're around 250 bucks.
>> That's right. Yeah. I mean, at least it's not soccer World Cup.
>> But it is it's it's extraordinary, isn't it? I mean, um to to really if you look at other iconic sporting events around the world, you know, there are lots of ways to measure them, you know, broadcasting, advertising, revenue, ticket sale, that kind of thing. But the the like take the Wimbledon Championship for example. They know the connection with local people who are less wealthy.
So they have the people Sunday in the middle of the tournament. They've got the hill where you can be part of the event. You can you can you know get in and and other iconic events have lotteryies where they have you know uh whatever it is a thousand or 2,000 affordable tickets. Lords test matches do this where they have they they're affordably priced for the less wealthy and you go into a lottery and if you get lucky then you're happy days. If you don't while you shrug your shoulders and try next year I understand.
>> Yeah I I mean Neil I I'm just trying to understand what the players might think about this. I mean third test you know any we don't know what will happen in the first two but it's likely there'll be a lot on the line. Um, and Kahisa Rabada comes steaming in from uh from which I don't know the ends anymore. If they still call the same thing, it doesn't really matter. Uh, and it's the first over of the first day and he comes in with none of the, for example, the wanderers roar, the bull ring behind him. I mean, whenever and and you've spoken to many, many more cricketers than I do. They never stop emphasizing the importance of a full house with most of it behind you. I mean, what's what is what are the players going to think of this? They can't be pleased.
>> No, they they won't be. And um it's the Kelvin Grove end and the Weinberg.
>> Oh, thank you. As they always were.
Yeah.
>> Prefers the Kelvin Grove. Okay. But so the England team have said for decades that their supporters are effectively a 12th man. that they raise their that they raise their level of performance.
Um, and I mean, you know, if if the ground is 95% full of England supporters, then of course it's going to have a detrimental effect on the players performance. They all love playing at Newlands. So I I you know I think it'll be more a case of how much the England team is lifted rather than the South African team is deflated because all sportsmen like to perform in front of a >> of a huge crowd you know a packed audience as all performance artists do.
>> Uh but but but also John it's you know we've been a whole year without a test match. the world test champions and it doesn't matter if it's a decider or not because of the world test championship there are points available even if South Africa lose the first two tests this will come on the back of having played Australia and Bangladesh >> so you know the the possibility of of earning a victory at Nuland which might be enough to get them back to Lords to defend their world test championship title >> is massive I mean that's the beauty of having this tournament as flawed as it is it means that every test match matters And I I'm just sorry for the for the for for the you know I mean know you're 10 or 11 or 12 13 years old. Um and and you and you you're in the Cape Town area and you go you you can't see a test match for two years. Uh you know that at that age that's a kind of generational gap.
>> No absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I I to your point, I have a a 10-year-old cricket mad grandson who hasn't whenever there's been one, Mr. Nuland's test match since I think he was about four or five, and his insight into the game and knowledge has grown. Neil, just a a last thing. Do do we know how this would have been done? I mean, the the the the mechanics, I mean, to whom do the tickets belong?
Do they belong to Cricket South Africa?
Do they belong to to uh Newand's and and and the provincial entity that runs that stadium?
>> It's a CSA event. They're in charge of >> international matches. Uh the the host union, this happens all all around the world. Uh so you've got the Western Provin Cricket Association who run Newlands for the rest of the year, but uh for for 10 days for uh for five days before the test match starts and during the test match all of the operations are run by Cricket South Africa. Okay. So so they they have uh they are trying to maximize revenue. Um and as I said they they they're doing it in a clumsy way and they've alienated South Africans.
And I just want to make the point again, John, that in on previous England tours, it's been really hard for South Africans to get a ticket. And you know, and that there's been a sort of shrugging of the shoulders and well, the Barmy Army are coming over and there's, you know, five or six thousand of them and they can all spend a lot of money. So, it gives the economy a boost. I couldn't get a ticket this year, which is really disappointing. about those families that you refer to and your grandson is is amongst, you know, probably a thousand Captonians who always have this pilgrimage to the New Year's test match and they they they queue, you know, it's one of those events where they they'll queue overnight or they'll sit in front of their laptop when the website goes live to make sure they get tickets. If you're one of those people that, you know, that we'll make a plan, we'll get tickets for the family and they do, but this time you can't. Yeah, it's there there's a lot more we need to find out about this cricket South Africa. If any of you uh your reps are listening out there, excuse me, I think an explanation is Odin, I would suggest the sooner the better. 702 drive. Thank you, Neil Manthorp.
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KZN police disperse migrants who camped outside a local police station and uses building judgment postponed to June.
Good afternoon. I'm Bali Lamini. Guas Natal police have dispersed a group of protesting migrants who blocked entry to Durban Central Police Station demanding protection today. The protesters made out of spas made up rather of spasa shop owners from across Durban say they fear for their lives in an atmosphere of sporadic demonstrations targeting undocumented migrants. They visited the police station yesterday initially asking for shelter and were given space to camp at Hoy Park. But today they forcefully prevented entry to the police station saying they want police protection. Police spokesperson Robert Nuunda. Then it reached a point where there were rebellions and they were saying that they were rather die in the heads of the police. They're not going anywhere and as the police we had to use minimum legal force to remove them from the station.
Nituinda says the protest also disrupted the daily functionings functions rather of the police station >> and there were people who who turned back thinking that police are under fire or the station is is is not accessible but it's not the case.
>> Small business development minister Stelland Beni has accused large retailers and illegal traders of standing in the way of local entrepreneurs in townships and rural areas. She says they've now come up with a new policy to counter the encroachment on the local market by supermarkets and illegal foreignowned businesses which will include more funding. Dabeni was tableabling her department's 3 billion rand budget in the national assembly today which focused on advancing economic transformation and developing small enterprises. Baba Londen reports.
The debate into the small business development budget heard how the country has more than 100,000 spas or shops valued at 200 billion rand annually. But Minister Stelland says local markets and small businesses in the sector continue to be pushed out by bigger retailers and businesses operating legally.
>> The competition from illegal foreignowned businesses and large retailers and supermarkets encroaching on local markets. To support them, we have developed the township and rural economic development and revitalization policy.
>> ACTP leader Kenneth Meshwe says Spaza shops contribute billions, but only a small portion is owned by locals.
>> Just 6% of Spaza shops are believed to be owned by South Africans.
>> Nini says the small business development department will target 1 million micro, small and medium enterprises to ease the cost of doing business. Baba Londonza, Eyewitness News Parliament.
>> Let's stay in Parliament where Mineral Resources Minister Gued Mantasha has come under pressure from political parties to speed up the restructuring of the fuel price as the global tensions send the price of oil soaring. Today, Masha told the house that a government visit to the Strait of Kumus is necessary to understand the impact that the blockade on this waterway is having on fuel prices. The matter was addressed during a debate on the budget of his department today. Lindseay Dentlinger reports.
>> Minister Gu Mantas says despite the global turmoil and the high cost of it, there will be no shortage of fuel in the country. But he says the government should go see for itself what's causing the crisis.
>> We've taken to visit the state of US to see what is magic about this trade, the small passage of oil that destabilizes the world. However, the EFF and Action SA have slammed the government's decision of more than a decade ago to sell strategic fuel stocks. Action SA MP Athal Trolip.
>> At a time when millions are already struggling with the cost of living, government has failed to cushion and secure our fuel reserves and cushion South Africans from rising fuel prices to or to provide long-term energy certainty. The ACDP's Wayne Thring says the fuel levies which add more than six rand to the price of fuel per liter must be reviewed to align with the lived realities and struggles of ordinary citizens. Lindseay Dentlinger, Eyewitness News Parliament.
>> And judgment in the case against the man accused of starting a fire at a building in the Joberg CBD in 2023 which killed 76 people has been postponed to the 3rd of June. The Palmidge Magistrate's court was expected to deliver judgment today in the case against Timbisum Zalo. Zalo initially admitted to starting the blaze at the hijacked us building, but during trial, he told the court that the confession was false, claiming he was forced to confess by a drug lord. Today, Judge Kasim Musa postponed the matter after identifying discrepancies in the post-mortem reports of the deceased.
Musa says it's in the interest of fairness and justice to delay the judgment until those discrepancies have been resolved.
>> The court noted that there was a challenge that it experienced in relation to the numbers on the post-mortem examination reports that were compiled for the 76 deceased persons.
Gold is trading at $4,543.94 an ounce. The rand is at $1670 to the dollar, 2232 to the pound, 1935 to the euro and bin crude oil is at $110.37 a barrel.
>> In Boxburg heading towards Brabban, there's bumper bumper traffic on the N17 eastbound between Ronda Bolt and Carnival City due to road works. Basonia traffic pressure on Clip Rafir Drive between the N12 and Bles due to faulty traffic lights and in North Cliff expect some delays on Bayers Nia between judges and the N1 >> and in your sport another honor for springback head coach Russi Rasmus.
Meanwhile, the Springbach women have announced their squad for the upcoming rugby Africa Women's Cup. We have another battle at the bridge this evening in the Premier League and the latest from the IPL meeting of the Rajasthan Royals and the Lucknow Super Giants.
A partly cloudy Wednesday in store for Kaoeng tomorrow. Johannesburg drops to overnight lows of 10° peaking at 18.
Pritoria 12 and 18 and for Yinak 6 and 17°. The top story in EWN the Sawa. KZAN police have dispersed a group of protesting migrants who blocked entry to the Durban police station demanding protection.
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Covering some serious stories, a study done by the organization Freedom Under Law has taken a very close and detailed look at some of the challenges facing our constitutional court. Now, there have been many occasions, I'm sure, where you at some point have said, "Wow, thank goodness for the concort." And for some of you, it may have been the judgment on Pala Pala a little while ago. It might have been this week when they uh gave a key ruling on the national health act and the rules around the deployment of doctors should there be any such rules at all for private sector doctors. So we know the value of the court but the court is taking what freedom under law calls mounting institutional strain that threatens its ability to fulfill its constitutional role effectively. Take note of those words. It sounds serious. We'll find out how serious in a moment when we chat to Chris Oxbe who is a research consultant at Freedom Under Law. Later in the show, we'll be catching up uh uh on what some of the key economic developments taking place are in Namibia. Crystal Order, who uh many of you have got to know over the years, uh has been doing something which we call the R&B Africa focus. is looking very closely at our neighbor and some extremely interesting and exciting things happening in the country to our north and east. So, all of that coming up in the hour and your comments, please. We asked you about unusual things you keep in your car. See, we've got a good crop of voice notes. The bars been set high from the previous ones we had. And then a very interesting conversation I had just before the 4:00 news uh with cricket writer and commentator Neil Manthorp and he was talking about the growing uh fury I think it's fair to say amongst South African cricket fans but also fans in England at what's happened to tickets for the Newand's test and by the way the second test on Boxing Days at Centurion.
I just went online earlier today to see if I could get tickets for that all gone. There is some space on the grass.
Uh but in terms of a seat in a stand, hopefully with a little bit of shade, all gone. Not a ticket to be had as far as I can see online as well. And in regards to the new test, if you didn't hear this before, some of those tickets are now turning up on other websites that do massive markups like Voggo. So tickets with a face value of probably 250 300 rand are going for 18,000 rand.
On StubHub, the same ticket is going for 20,000 rand. If you're an England fan who can't get a ticket except by taking out a package to go to Cape Town, that's going to cost you 100,000 rand. Yes, of course, your flights included accommodation and so on, but not everybody has that kind of money and not everybody wants to travel that way. So, we hope at some point to get Cricket South Africa to engage with us and tell us why they went that route. Yes, you look to maximize revenue up to a point, but at the expense of all South African cricket fans in Cape Town, that seems excessive. If, by the way, you try to get a Newand's ticket, uh, let me know what your experience was. Uh, 702 drive numbers 07272172 minutes past >> 472 WhatsApp >> on 072.
>> Hi, Don. I just wanted to find out like uh the buildings like the one on number eight Albert Street where there was a disaster where a lot of people passed away because of um the the building was actually overcrowded and people had erected uh structures within the building and living in the building. Um are they is the building also going to be subjected to uh demolition of those unapproved structures including the fire station, the old fire station in the CBD? Um, when is the mayor and his team preparing or planning to go and visit those buildings in order to bring them back to uh by law condition again. Thank you. This is Buddy from Krugerg Store.
>> In my car, I keep a dream catcher and um that's to ward off any bad luck that I may have while driving.
and um a bulletproof vest on the driver's seat to stop whatever the dream catcher doesn't stop.
>> Hi, John. Uh Spike again.
John, I own a VW Golf.
Two of the most essential things to keep in that car that they're in my car at the moment is 5 liter of water and a pint of synthetic oil.
those things very very very very very essential for that car. All the VW guys will know exactly why you have to keep all those things in there because without those you have a problem. Thank you John Spike here. Cheers. Thanks. One more uh thing in the car. This comes from Len who says um a certain brand of coffee with a name and surname is kept in my car boot because there are times when I visit people and they only have chory or brands of coffee I don't consume. So Len walks in at least Karabachali keeps his scuff tunes in the boot until the moment is right. Len I don't know if you know in advance who's going to serve you what coffee or once the coffee comes out and the offer's been made of a hot drink. Do you then uh just go back to your car and come in with your own coffee? I think they see you coming, Lynn. You've probably done it before. Unusual things in your car, please. 07272172.
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>> Right. The constitutional court often in the news and often in the news in ways that I think a lot of South Africans look at and say well they seem to be safeguarding very important aspects of our constitution and creating pathways towards better things in our national life. However, the task they're facing according to a report that's just been released is a massive one. uh and they speak in this report of what they call quote mounting institutional strain. The report has been put together by freedom under law and Chris Oxbe my next guest is a research consultant for that organization. Mr. Oxterby welcome and thanks very much for your time. I mean, one of the things that we may well uh perhaps kick off with, just to give people perspective, the number of applications filed at the constitutional court each year has more than tripled uh since 2010. They now receive close to 400 applications annually. Tell us what that workload entails. Presumably, an application doesn't necessarily uh lead to a hearing, but it's got to be dealt with, I would assume.
>> Uh yeah, good afternoon, John. Thanks for having me on. I mean that that's absolutely right that um the applications that come into the court uh don't necessarily translate to an actual hearing in front of judges as people will have seen live streamed from the courts but the court does have to consider it. So these will be cases that uh mostly have uh come up from uh courts uh lower down in the system. Um and they've got to the last stage or the last appeal before the constitutional court has uh has been been turned down and your last roll of the dice you try and get an appeal to the constitutional court. I mean the problem is in part coming in because uh up until about 10 years ago the constitutional court as its name suggests only dealt with uh constitutional issues but its jurisdiction then got expanded um so that it's a broader more general jurisdiction and that really seems to have uh contributed to opening up uh uh floodgates of uh of people trying to bring their cases uh before the court.
Um and as you you quite rightly say um the court may not end up deciding to grant leave to to appeal but it's still got to consider that and uh that that seems to be having a very serious impact on the court's uh capacity and workload.
Let's talk a little bit about expand is has there been expansion of scope that um you know that things end up the constitutional court uh that perhaps in the original framing of our constitution and the conceptualizing as part of that of the court itself. Uh they they didn't really expect those uh cases would end up there. That by the way could be a good thing. Uh but but but with uh some some really difficult consequences.
>> Yes, exactly. I think the crucial part of that is the the question of consequences. Um I mean the the idea of having a specialist constitutional court as opposed to a a general appeal court.
Um that you know some countries go one way, some countries go the other way. The problem that we have is that we started off uh when the court was first established conceiving of it as a purely constitutional court that was going to deal with constitutional issues only.
The constitution 17th amendment then changed that and gave the court uh potentially expanded jurisdiction where it essentially the test that the court applies is whether it's in the interest of justice for it to consider an appeal on a more general point of law. Um the problem came about that when that change got introduced nothing was done to increase the court's uh human resources capacity to deal with it. It didn't change the court's internal processes.
So we now have a you know those structure and systems that were developed for a much narrower jurisdiction and a smaller case load are now what the court is having to use to try and deal with this much more expansive uh case load. And that's really where the uh you know the problem seemed to be coming in.
>> Are you aware Mr. Oxybe of of of the court itself blowing the whistle on any of this? I mean um obviously the head of the constitutional court is the head of the judiciary as I understand it and we've always traditionally and I think with uh Chief Justice uh Meer as well heard them speaking out in general on lack of resources and other issues of budget control and and so on but specifically on their own difficulties that you've set out in such detail. Uh are are they fighting their own corner?
>> They've certainly blown the whistle on it. I mean the the emphasis for the project that has ended up in this uh research report that you you mentioned came about uh two years ago when uh the former chief justice Zondo instituted a program to try and use retired judges to help process some of these applications and that that scheme didn't last very long but uh he did expressly mention that that this was needed because there was such a huge increase in these applications coming in and he made it very clear the court was was struggling to deal with it. Um I we we think there are some things that the court can probably do uh to help uh expedite expedite this. It can apply its test for um granting leave to appeal perhaps in a in a different way in a in a tighter way. Um it can introduce some restrictions on how long these applications are allowed to be. But it may be that uh you know something more fundamental and structural is needed in which case we may well be looking at constitutional amendments if we're changing size composition of the court etc. So I think I think it's a multifaceted uh approach. I think it's going to take uh some short-term measures that the court can properly introduce on its own but it may well take some more medium to long-term measures where we're going to have to look at other branches of government stepping in to to help them.
Is this do you have specific examples whether they're in the report or just you know uh from your your own observation of of the court in action where this is causing problems?
Obviously delays uh were very much focused on in regard to that pala pala report uh which you know when it did come out it was quite clear immediately how consequential it was. Is there anything else beyond delays? I mean, do do justices feel that maybe they're not getting to spend enough time on stuff?
>> I'm I'm sure that if we spoke to uh constitutional court judges candidly um and they were able to speak openly, they would they would probably say that they they don't have uh have enough time. Um and you know there have been there have been concerns for a while of people were were worrying about whether the the quality of the judgments that's coming out of the court are always where we would like it to be right >> um now that you know one can one can debate that but I mean for example there's been a lot of academic criticism of how the court's judgments in commercial law cases which of course they wouldn't generally have received in the under the previous dispensation. Um and there have been concerns about how the court has dealt with that. Now that that you know there can be a lot of factors that influence that including uh the type of judges you appoint and what background and experience they have. But it may well be that as the court is just so overwhelmed with having to cope with uh with all these sort of fresh applications that it may start having an impact on the kind of judgments that uh that come out and whether those judgments are as good as we and the court would would like them to be. Um it's difficult to say that definitively but I think it's definitely a concern that that one has to take seriously.
>> Thanks so much Chris Oxbe research consultant for freedom under law. very important study I think they've done.
Obviously, as we look at the work of the constitutional court, we focus very much on matters they hear and judgments they arrive at. But the larger problem they're highlighting is that this is an institution facing significant institutional strain. And again, just to give you that number, they now receive close to 400 applications annually. And the average period between hearings and judgments has more than doubled over the past decade. Uh while applications for leave to appeal often remain unresolved for months. So something to sort out there. Maybe you've got some thoughts on how that can be done. 07272172 28 minutes past 4.
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>> Steven Critz is a very good afternoon to you. How are the markets today so far?
>> Afternoon, John. Yeah, so uh Brent crude still quite high and that's really pushing things down a little bit. Um gold and platinum both much lower as well. So none of that helping. The JC all share down 72% 114,085 points. Financials down nearly half a percent. Industrials up a percent but resources down nearly 3% down 2.77% on the day. Um ASB isotopes is down 9% but the story perhaps is really around Boxer. Boxer are down 6 and a half%. Uh Pick and Pay were down quite significantly earlier today as well.
That's after Pick and Pay said last night after trading closed they were selling around 11.5% of their shares in Boxer through an accelerated book build.
It happened overnight. Pick and Pay held around 65% of Boxer probably owns now around 54%. Pick and Pay were down I think partly because this is being read as a signal that Pick and Pay needs the money. So it's basically selling its sort of bits of its crown jewel which is Boxer to fund its turnaround was looking for 4.7 billion rand from the book build and that's really pushed both of them down and that's had a bit of an impact on Boxer today and then we got gold and platinum prices down so that's pushed Sabunia down 4.2 to Anglo Gold down four, goldfields down nearly three and a half all the way down you start to see that the Bites Technology Group based in the UK but listed here as well up 4.77 proess up 4% and Nasp up four and then Alammen they've won a big mining right in the Northern Cape they won a court case around that they're up 2.72% PSG finance also up nearly 2% on the day the hospital group Netcare they've announced their executive head for strategy and health policy Melanie D Costa taking over as CEO when Richard Freedelland leaves. He's retiring at the end of the year. Netare says D Costas a chartered financial analyst has 20 years experience of executive management in the South African healthc care sector.
In the US a bit of a set off in heavyweight chip stocks. Also concerns around inflation at the moment uh in the US as you can imagine because of higher oil prices. Treasury yields on treasury bonds still rising. So that's also just a little bit of concern there. The Dow Jones down41, the Nasdaq down.77, the S&P 500 down half a percent at the moment. The gold price 4,5.96 an ounce. Platinum $1,94643 a barrel. Both of those are down significantly today. Brent crude $109.99.
So call it 110 really. The rand taking a bit of strain through all of this. John to the dollar674 to the euro 1943 to the British pound 2241. Steven Curtis EWN Business.
>> Thanks Steven. Let's get the very latest eyewitness news now from Bali Lamini.
Good afternoon.
>> Thanks John. Good afternoon. Well, the restoration of the PL hospital is nearing completion months ahead of its schedule. The hospital was damaged after a devastating fire earlier this year.
The Western Cape government says major infrastructure repairs have now been finalized in just 6 months, significantly quicker than the initial 12-month estimate. MEC for health and wellness moral winga has praised healthare teams, contractors and support staff for ensuring services continued while the restoration work was underway.
Government allocated 67 million rand to the project and a number of outpatient and specialist services have now returned to the hospital. The remaining services expected are expected back in early June. Wenger says the focus has been not only to repair the building but also on restoring access to health care for the PAL community. This work has always been about more than repairing a building. It is about restoring access to care and the health and dignity of every person who depends on PL hospital.
I want to thank the PAL community, our patients and their families for their patience and support during this period.
One of the country's top infectious disease experts, Professor Tulia de Oliviera says there is nothing to worry about regarding the hunter virus. Today D. Oliviera was awarded with the gold order of Makpung during a national order ceremony at the Sifakum Makatu Presidential Guest House. The award was in recognition of his research and public education during the height of the co9 pandemic with South Africa being one of the few countries in the world with a confirmed hunter virus case. D.
Oliviera says it's unlikely this will result in a co 19-like situation.
>> No, you have no reason to be worried about the hunter virus. Yeah, it's a difficult to transmit virus and that's quite clear. So since the first case came and was hospitalized in South Africa. So we haven't seen almost no cases. So we are talking from a ship a boat with very close contacts less than 20 infections and that show that how difficult to transmit that virus.
>> While in Germany, health officials are preparing to admit and treat a US doctor who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This comes after US authorities requested assistance from the German government in treating the US citizen. It's understood the doctor who works in the DRC with his wife and children contracted the virus following exposure related to his work. In Germany, there is a nationwide network of expert for the management and care of patients with such illnesses. The death the toll rather from the Ebola outbreak in the DRC has risen to an estimated 131 deaths from 513 suspected cases. The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak an international health emergency. A partly cloudy Wednesday in store for Khaen tomorrow. Lows of between 6 and 12° and highs of between 17 and 18.
>> Boxburg heading towards Brabban. You can still expect about a 20-minute delay.
N17 eastbound between Ronda Bald and Carnival City uh due to ongoing road works. Basonia traffic pressure on Clip Rafir Drive between the N12 and Bair.
This is due to faulty traffic lights.
And in um if you're leaving Santin expect about a 20-minute delay on Graston Drive from West Street all the way to Katherine Street. The top story in EWN, the restoration of the PAL hospital is nearing completion months ahead of schedule after the hospital was damaged during a devastating fire earlier this year.
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>> Anthony Tedra Russi Rasmus honored in Ptoria today but not at Loftess. Yeah, good afternoon John. And that's right.
Springbach head coach Russi Rasmus was the recipient of the National Order of Vikamanga in gold by the presidency today. The honor was in recognition to his contribution to the national rugby landscape with the presidency saying the inspirational leader raised the nation's esteem in the international community as well as advancing the country's social coh. Saturday we'll see the starts of this year's edition of the Rugby Africa Women's Cup in Nairobi, Kenya. four-time winners and defending champs. The Springbach women have a fresh look to them as they have nine uncapped players in their ranks in the touring group.
Meanwhile, Anati Kolo will be the standin captain. They start their campaign against Madagascar Saturday before facing off against Uganda and Kenya next week. Let's move now to some football action where of course 10 years on from the battle of the bridge which ended a Spurs push for the Premier League title and handed it to underdogs Leicester City. Another epic awaits at Stamford Bridge today. Only this time it's not for silverware but rather survival. Tottenham head to their London rivals Chelsea tonight knowing that a win will see them remain in the English top flight at the expense of West Ham.
Here's the North Londoners manager Roberto Deserby.
>> Stanford Bridge is difficult. is tough stadium because uh the players of of uh Chelsea in this in this last 30 25 season have been uh fantastic.
>> Meanwhile, we could see the title decided as Man City have a must-win at Bournemouth after Arsenal picked up a 1-0il win over Burnley last night. He has manager Pep Guardiola.
>> Win our game. It's not a hand, but we cannot lose the Premier League because they don't win and we don't win. That is cannot happen. Let's win the game to arrive in the last chance and after that like is no control. Wait.
>> The earliest of those games will kick off at Hoff State. Buffana Buffaneli Bokazi was named in the MSL team of the week after his Chicago Fire won 2-0 over Montreal this past weekend. Since making the switch to the US at the start of the year, the defender has become a mainstay in the team playing 11 of Chicago's 13 league matches. In cricket, the Rajasthan Royals have sent the Lucknow Super Giants into bat first. Anthony Shada, Eyewitness News Sport >> EWN traffic >> at 19 minutes to 5. Let's give you the very latest from what's happening out on the roads. Karab Charlie, how we looking? Yes, John. At this stage, if you're leaving Santon, uh you can expect about a 20-minute delay that's heading towards the M1 on Grayson Drive between um West Street and Catherine Street in Melrose. traveling towards Midrand. Uh traffic is heavily congested on the M1 northbound from Athel Oakland to the Paku interchange in Basonia. Traffic pressure on Clipir Drive between the N12 and BZ due to faulty traffic lights.
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Uh there there all these kind of international days that happen from time to time and one of them really caught my eye. Today's uh international family doctor day which sort of celebrates a time when families you know all had the same doctor and I don't know if doctors made house calls and so on but it raised a very interesting question for me I mean first of all how would you describe your relationship with your doctor do you actually have a doctor or do you maybe go to a clinic where you see different doctors at different times do you go as a family or do you go as an individual and what kind of relationship do you actually want. Um, some people like to get to know the doctor and would hope that they get to know them. Other people would prefer it to be perhaps at a little bit more of a distance, a bit more of an arms length. And as doctors yourself, if there uh are some of you who are listening uh who would like to call in, I mean, what what kind of relationships have you looked to create with your patients? I mean, I think it's a very very important part of our lives.
Hopefully uh you know it's nice to be able to say gee I haven't seen you in ages uh which may be a little bit different with an old school friend but uh I think that's the ideal relationship with a doctor when you don't see much of them but it is a very important one.
Anthony I mean growing up did you have a a kind of family doctor or did you go to a health practice? I mean and and now what what are you after when you engage with a medical professional? Yeah, I mean growing up we did have a family doctor. Um and when my dad passed away, he opened up his practice on the 1st of Jan to treat the entire family. Sure.
You know, we were all sitting there and he was sort of making sure that everybody was okay. He gave um sort of a comment to my grandmother and it was a very nice >> interaction. It was a moment to just sort of acknowledge that everybody was going through grief and and to just have this medical practitioner there to sort of make sure that nobody was, you know, suffering too much. Uh and since then, you know, we've moved on to other doctors and I must say my my doctor now, Dr. Peter Baxter, amazing guy. Uh one of those where you can just go in and you can have a laugh uh regardless of what's happening. And for me, laughing is usually quite important when you're going through something. So >> the best medicine and all that >> 100%. I watched Padams as a child. And so it's very much a moment to sit down and even if I am coughing and spewing and and sort of suffering, we can have a laugh at my expense and I'm okay with that.
>> Yeah. Okay. Well, interesting. And and the guy who looked after your family in that that incredibly painful time sounds absolutely amazing. Karab doctors.
>> Yeah. Growing up, uh we had a family doctor. Actually, he was more than just a family doctor. He was a family friend.
Okay. Um I think they come from the same village with where my parents come from.
So I believe he also attended their wedding. So he was just yeah he was um a friend and every time we went for consultation you'll always have to catch up and have these long chats. How's school? How are your parents? I haven't seen them in a while and I would be worried some other patients waiting in there.
>> I was going to say while the other patients are looking at their watches >> like how long has this guy been in there so but yeah >> he looked perfectly healthy. He's been in there 45 minutes.
>> Yeah. No he was a great guy. Um I wonder where he is now. uh because if I still lived in the German Gutlong area, I'd probably still be consulting with him.
>> Yeah. Interesting. Okay. So, good experiences of engaging with doctors very much in that kind of family doctor tradition. This is world family doctor day and I thought just an interesting time to talk about what kind of uh connections you look for when you engage with medical uh professionals. Maybe you want it very much on the medicine straight professional or do you actually enjoy having a degree of connection and even closeness with them? And doctors, please feel free and call a call in. I I I'd be interested to know if you feel your own job has changed over the years and if so, in what way? We're going to find out more about Namibia a little bit later. In fact, shortly, but not before we've heard this. In the last 24 hours, this is what's happened in your world.
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Well, at 11 minutes now to 5, R&B Africa Focus is brought to you by RMBB, a leading African corporate and investment bank. Today, we focus on Namibia and why it's emerging as one of Africa's most closely watched economies. R&B Africa Focus is back for a fifth season to explore Africa's economic resilience and strategic role in global economies. Over the coming weeks, we'll look at several African countries and how they are sustaining momentum, unlocking opportunity and positioning themselves in a continuously evolving global landscape. For decades, the narrative of African energy has been dominated by the established giants of Western North Africa. But now attention is turning to Namibia where major offshore oil fines, green hydrogen ambitions, and renewed mining are reshaping the country's prospects. The primary catalyst for this shift is the frantic pace of offshore exploration in the orange basin.
Economists say the southern African sleeping giant is waking up. So, let's understand better what this moment could mean for Namibia. and welcome to 702 drive once again. Award-winning journalist Crystal Order. Uh Crystal, a very good afternoon to you. Namibia, a country with less than three million people, but extraordinary economic shifts, oil and gas front and center there in this conversation. What's happening in that regard? Good afternoon to you.
>> Good afternoon, John, and good to be back. So John, I don't think we could have imagined that um Namibia, the country next door to us, small population, beautiful country that they are navigating these extraordinary economic times. So I think firstly, Namibia has always been known for its own commodities. We talking here uranium, we're talking diamonds, we're talking agriculture, we're also talking um some lithium that they have, but that's been but one part of it. And there's been a frantic pace of offshore exploration in the orange basin. So it began just as you know like all prospecting happening across Africa several years ago. Um it finally you know we saw companies actually putting money on the table because what it is John it's a very ambitious engineering project. It's not just it's really it's deep sea. It's about six kilometers beneath the surface. So you actually need very deep pockets. And here's a country John with no prior history of oil production and suddenly it's finding itself by all having all these global operators that are there and committing to this massive capital expenditure. And here we're talking exploration wells they say um for in these type of conditions John is around $100 million each. And so what we see now the oil operators they're saying look um this investment is going to pay off and we're actually putting money in. So what we see now, Namibia, our sleeping neighbor next door, John, is literally transforming into this major construction zone. Um, and it's definitely going to impact on the country in terms of its own infrastructure, in terms of logistics and port facilities.
>> So let's stay with energy, but talk about something else, green hydrogen.
You'll tell us what green hydrogen is.
Uh, and then having just put us in the picture, tell us what Namibia is doing in that particular space.
So John, you need technology and you need money to develop um green hydrogen and so Namibia sort of stands out because of it has abundant wind and solar resources. And then it also um has renewables re um energy resources and also it was one of the first countries where the African Development Bank actually put money on the table and they approved a $10 million loan to a hydrogen energy company in Namibia. But um to explain what exactly is happening in Namibia, I was in conversation with R&B's Angelique Peak. She's the oil and gas lead and she explains the steps um and why Namibia is the country um for green hydrogen. John >> yeah and let's take a listen.
>> Yeah, it's an interesting question because the timing and the geopolitics have also changed that conversation quite dramatically over the last two to three years. So second pillar I would say is probably not quite going to be the case. Two, three, four years ago, green hydrogen was definitely going to take over from fossil fuels in the world as one of the re renewable energies together with solar, wind and other other opportunities. But the geopolitics and the world have simply not gotten there. Technology is not quite there.
Price discovery globally is not quite there yet. And then in Namibia itself, the oil and gas story has simply overtaken the conversation. So what has happened in Namibia is that the big green hydrogen project is most certainly still getting funding to be developed.
Is still looking like it's going to come and become something that will create jobs and opportunities. But it's probably a much longer trajectory. It's not a 2, three year plan. It's maybe a 5, seven, 10 year plan as to when that plays out. But supplementary to that, your green industrialization is starting to become a bit more of a story.
Yeah, that was Angelique Peak, R&B's oil and gas lead in Namibia. Let's move off the the assets and the opportunities, Crystal, and look at some of the problems. Namibia has significant unemployment. Is part of the conversation about how they can use these opportunities to actually start making a dent in a in a number that's, you know, by a wide consensus much too high.
>> Yes, John. And we look at it's a small country less than 3 million people and Namibia in terms of its stats tells us that there's about 36.9% um unemployment rate and it's within a labor force John of under 1 million. So that's a high number and then we look at youth unemployment between the ages of 15 to 24 also about 44%. So really we are told it's one of the highest unemployment rates in subsaran Africa.
So you can imagine this is giving the ruling party and the president in particular um sleepless nights and she recently um the president addressed the Namibia International Energy Conference and she made it very clear that in order for all these companies to come in it has to there has to be jobs on the table and so there's been a big focus because she's saying that she wants radical shifts and here she wants companies to put money on the table around apprenticeship programs. because she sees youth unemployment as that big stumbling block and she wants other practical solutions like a big investment in education. Now the reality is John with um findings that we see now oil and gas green hydrogen their own critical minerals that they have it is of course you need a skilled workforce for this so it's not going to happen overnight but I think there is a big focus and I think the president and her government has made it clear to all these international companies coming there um that will come and explore that it has to accompany with some level of jobs. So we'll have to wait and see but it's clearly a very big focus um at least from government side and we also heard Angelique Peak she emphasize that even from the private sector they know that for Namibia to succeed they have to deal with this 36.9 unemployment rate that they have in the country John >> and and unemployment obviously a big problem on the continent in a number of countries but the other huge issue that we face uh exacerbated uh of course by the conflict in the Gulf Crystal is actually getting fuel into this region and leaving you know if possible making us less dependent uh on countries uh that have to pass their oil through the straight of Hormuz. I believe the Nigerian industrial giant Alico Dangorte is having conversations about Namibia to to do what exactly in in regard to the problem I've just spelt out.
>> Yes, John. So his company Dangorte Petrolum Refinery plans to construct a large scale fuel storage facility in Valfers Bay uh with what they say a capacity of 1.6 million barrels. So what we see he's announced this plan of a 2,000 um kilometer fuel pipeline from Balfus Bay through to Botswana to Bilwayo in Zimbabwe. He's already working with the African Export and import bank. um they've set up a $3 billion facility and of course it's also got to do with promoting intra Africa trade John because as you pointed out we know that the the crisis in the Gulf is impacting Africa and it's impacting landlock countries in particular and so what we see um they plan um to have these um Namibian storage aims to facilitate fuel distribution to Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and parts of the DRC and But we do know John Dangote doesn't play around. When he says he's going to do something, he puts money on the table. He's able to raise money um from different um local and international banks. Um and so we see again here, you know, one mission that he's got is promoting this intra Africa trade and Balf Bay is going to be that place. John, >> yeah, really interesting stuff happening in Namibia. Thank you, Crystal O.
Crystal back with us uh next week and of course she's regularly on with Bongani Bingua as well. By the way, if you live in Namibia and you're listening, if you've worked in Namibia and you have some thoughts on uh everything Crystal has been talking about or perhaps you're doing business in that country now, I'd love to get your thoughts and get your take. I've been there very briefly for work and I have to say I have no real sense of the dynamism of the country, but clearly there's a lot more to know.
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>> Safety concerns spark yet another vehicle recall. An alleged US diesel building arsonist confident he will walk free.
Good afternoon. I'm Bali Zamini. We begin with news just in. The National Consumer Commission has announced another vehicle recall, this time affecting over 400 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Wrangler vehicles. The NCC says it was notified by the supplier, Stellantis South Africa, that the vehicles may have various defects that could compromise safety in the Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles sold in 2023.
The issue relates to the seat belt warning indicator. The commission says the Jeep Wrangler vehicles that were sold between 2022 and 2024 have an issue with the instrument panel cluster which may result in important driving information not being displayed. NCC spokesperson Peton Daba, >> "We say to owners, do take your vehicle back to the point of purchase or to any authorized Jeep for a full assessment and where your car needs to be um fixed.
They are going to carry those um fixes at no cost to you as a consumer."
>> Alleged building arsonists says he is confident he will be acquitted of arson charges. Loa, who previously confessed to starting the deadly blaze that claimed the lives of 76 people in the Johannesburg CBD in 2023, appeared in court today for judgment. Although the judgment has been postponed to next month, Zlosa told journalists he believes he will walk free. He says he is confident his arguments presented during the trial was strong enough.
>> 100% we are confident in my cancer. I believe we've done everything that we've done. So we've done on our best in doing cross examination. So I believe uh yeah thank you.
>> Quasul natal police have dispersed a group of protesting migrants who had blocked entry to the Durban central police station demanding protection today. The protesters made up of Spaza shop owners from across Durban say they fear for their lives in an atmosphere of sporadic demonstrations targeting undocumented migrants. They visited the police station yesterday asking for shelter and were then given space to camp at Hoy Park, but today they forcibly prevented entry to the police station saying they want police protection. Police spokesperson Robert Nuunda.
>> Then it reached a point where there were rebellious and they were saying that they rather die in the hands of the police than not going anywhere and as the police we had to use minimum legal force to remove them from the station.
Nuunda says the protest outside the police station also disrupted daily operations >> and there were people who who turned back thinking that police are under fire or the station is is is not accessible but it's not the case >> in the Western Cape residents of Spooky's town informal settlement in Rossonville are calling on the Brietta Valley municipality to relocate them to safer ground after floods destroyed homes and damaged belongings. The settlement built along a river bank was badly affected when the river burst its banks during last week's severe storm.
Several farms nearby were also flooded, prompting the rescue of 23 people who were stranded on rooftops. Nutellon reports.
>> Residents here say the area floods regularly and that they have repeatedly asked the municipality to move them to vacant land that is not floodprone.
Johannes Fonvve says he has lived in the settlement for more than 20 years and claims residents please have been ignored for decades. There is ground in front. We can go there after one year or maybe 6 months we can start building our own houses there and there wet the rain was pouring a lot but there is dry. The municipality says it is looking into the possibilities of providing safer living spaces for communities living along river banks. Dutello Eyewitness News in Rosenville.
>> And the European you parliament has approved a corresponding draft for stricter import rules on foreign steel to protect the industry from cheap Chinese exports. The measure will almost have the current duty fee quotas for steel imports. According to reports, duties of 50% will be levied on steel outside the quotas. These duties currently amount to 25%. The new rules are due to come into force on the 1st of July after EU states give their final green light. Gold is trading at $4,543.98 an ounce. The rand is at 1669 to the dollar, 2233 to the pound, 1931 to the euro. and Bren crude oil is at $110.35 a barrel.
>> Northcliffe you can expect about a 20-minute delay on Bayers Nia between judges and the N1 while in Egeni Benoni traffic is crawling on Atlas road approaching the N12 and in Boxburg traveling towards traveling towards a Blackburn expect about a 20-minute delay. N17 eastbound between Rondol and Carnival City due to road works.
>> And in your sport, two Premier League fixtures this evening which could affect the top and the bottom of the table. Man City. The title challenges head to Bournemouth while Spurs look for safety as they face off at Sanford Bridge against Chelsea. And a legendary long-distance runner touches down in South Africa ahead of this weekend's Cape Town Marathon.
>> A partly cloudy Wednesday in store for tomorrow. Johannesburg drops to overnight lows of 10° peaking at 18, Pritoria 12 and 18, and for 6 and 17°.
The top story in EWN this hour. The National Consumer Commission has announced yet another vehicle recall.
This time affecting over 400 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Jeep Wrangler vehicles.
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>> 702 drive. Good to have you with us for the final hour of the show. Hope you've had a decent Tuesday. Some of you, of course, may well still be working. Some of you may be only heading out to work right now. I have a couple of colleagues who fit exactly that description. Either way, we've got some interesting stuff for you. Coming up shortly, we're going to be talking to Professor Helen Ree in South Africa. She's the executive director of the Vitz Rural Health In uh Reproductive Health Institute at Vitz University. Um but she is also very much involved with the World Health Organization in responding to the Ebola virus and it's about that virus that we're going to be talking to her. The numbers of people getting infected and the numbers of people dying are significant. The WH has indicated that this is a matter of significant concern.
So how should we be viewing this from South Africa? What we've learned of course over the years is things happening in terms of health crisis in one part of the world uh should be understood in terms of the extent to which they can maybe reach other parts of the world. But it's a great concern for the African continent in general.
Profice joining us in four or five minutes time. We've been asking you speaking of health about doctors, relationships with doctors. Maybe you're a doctor and the relationship you have with patients and it's because today's World Family Doctor Day and I've been interested to know first of all whether your experience with doctors has changed over the passage of your life. Family doctors perhaps more common when you were younger. Um and maybe you've also changed your views as to what it is that you actually want to get from an interaction with medical professional.
just straight advice, very clear professional assistance, or are you looking for more of the personal touch as well? Doctors, feel free to call in and tell us what's changed for you as you've gone about uh doing your job and helping people. Uh we'd like to hear from all of you your stories, please, on 072721702.
In fact, got a couple of your stories right now.
>> You're with John Pearlman >> on 702. Good afternoon, Dr. John and Tim. Yeah, with the issue of uh doctors or family doctors. Um yeah, I I've got one uh Dr. James. Um and how I met Dr. James, he actually changed my life. Um you know, after a series of uh tests that were conducted, he told me point blank, your liver cannot handle alcohol. You need to stop drinking. And ever since I mean it's three years now and I've never touched and um thanks to him I'm living a healthy life now and every time I go to that practice I always ask for Dr. James. Thanks for the nice show.
>> Talking about doctors my house doctor is the best human being I have met in a very long time. He is fantastic and it's such a lovely relationship because I feel very comfortable to tell him how I'm feeling. It's for me if I don't have if I can't talk to you then obviously it's not a fruitful relationship for me I'm just giving you money and I'm leaving. But a doctor like that who takes time to laugh with his patients to make jokes. I walked in once and he said, "Oh, my favorite cuckoo patient."
And I was like, "Hello, my cuckoo doctor. How are you?" And it's just it's nice. I don't loathe going to the doctor when I have to. It just makes it easier for me to go and get help when I'm sick.
It's nice to laugh even when you're sick.
>> Yeah, thanks for those. Let points out growing up we didn't have a doctor. We had Inyanga. Let Thank you for that uh perspective. 702 drive. It's 11 minutes past 5. I think we should just check up with the traffic. But before we do that, let me remind you what we're going to do in the last half of the show. We always have some music. We play your music. We pick out a theme. We mainly focus on music that kind of reminds you of things or perhaps takes you back to your metric dance or your latest karaoke performance or whatever. But we decided today to recognize the fact that sometimes music can actually ruin your mood. In the case of Kabazella, it happens to be this song.
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>> 702 drive. Well, let's focus now on something that is of significant concern in areas like the Democratic Republic of Congo, for example. The Ebola outbreak, which has killed at least 131 people in that part of Africa and may be spreading faster than originally thought. Let's welcome to the show, Professor Helen Ree, who is executive director at the Reproductive Health Institute at Vitz University. Prof, welcome and thanks very much for uh giving us your time today. Just to set the scene, let's hear from the World Health Organization director general Tedros Adonom and then we'll talk about what he had to say.
>> Early on Sunday, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over an epidemic of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
So, Prof, first off, I mean, a public epidemic of international concern, what does that actually mean both in terms of uh it its implications, but also things that might need doing by the WHO and others.
>> Now, thank you, John, and and good afternoon to you and the listeners. So, it what it stands for is a public health emergency of international concern. Um the World Health Organization has a a a tool which the member states have signed up to which are called international health regulations. Now when there is an outbreak like this and obviously uh around the world there are outbreaks of different things all the time. But when there is something that people consider to be much more significant and much more of a threat, what happens is that the WHO convenes an emergency committee of experts and they decide whether in fact this is an international concern.
If they say yes, then this declaration is made and a whole lot of things then kick in. WH and in this case groups like Africa CDC will then spring into action.
and they probably sprung into action even before this declaration. And things like rapid response teams, uh, ensuring that protective gear is made available, uh, that the surveillance is improved, that labs are improved, a whole series of things then kick in, uh, because it's seen as as a potentially a global threat, but certainly in this case a regional threat. So, in terms of Ebola and and the way it spreads, um it's obviously I I'm hope I'm right in my conclusion. It's certainly not as spreadable uh in in terms of creating a pandemic the way uh the the way CO was.
Nevertheless, it can be spread in quite a number of ways. I mean, we're a long way uh from the DRC in South Africa, but I I would have thought that given international travel and the way people move around, the concept of a long way away is very very different to what it might have been 50 years ago.
>> Yes, that's true. And uh uh in fact, the Africa CDC in addition to this global uh announcement from the WHO, the Africa CDC's also announced a public health emergency for inter for continental security. So the fact is that we are on the same continent albeit that we're far away. But you're quite right. This isn't spread uh in as a respiratory virus in the same way that we all saw COVID or influenza is spread. This is spread through contact and usually close contact within the home, health care workers etc. Um but it can be contact from uh sheets, bed sheets from patients. uh so there are a number of ways in which it spread but it's not as uh trans what we call transmissible from human to human as the respiratory viruses but the the concern here is that first of all because it's taking place in quite a difficult area to access there's conflict it's difficult so it probably was going on before this emergency was announced and it wasn't noticed because uh surveillance facilities etc are are not strong in those areas and it's difficult to contact there but now uh it's being looked at there is a concern that we are seeing spread we think the initial um spread might have occurred around a funeral where funeral traditions were including touching occurred but uh there is a concern that this is spreading quite rapidly and there have been two cases as well in Uganda um and you're right air travel is always a concern but in this case this is this is something that's transmitted from human to human contact.
>> In terms of I I I know that you engage with the WH on this particular issue. I mean what are they doing now and what do they suggest might need to happen moving forward because uh initial stages but nevertheless the the the death toll is already very very high. I would have thought some things have to be done quickly. What are those things?
Well, so far, uh, there's been an emergency mobilization response, which includes putting teams of experts in to treat people. Um, setting up safe treatment centers, engaging communities.
Communities in that part of the world don't really trust authorities because there's been conflict there for a long time. And then in what we call infection prevention and control which is where we send in and you saw it in COVID protective gear for health care workers and instructions on how to clean things, surveillance, enhancing the lab capacity so that we can actually make the diagnosis and now of course a very important thing is tracing the contacts of people who have been diagnosed uh with the infection.
How how much more difficult has this been made by the uh many changes that have gone on in the United States under the Trump administration? Obviously uh there's a huge repor repository of of scientific and medical expertise in the United States when Elon Musk was running the department of government efficiency.
Uh there were ma major cuts made to US aid work in regard to Ebola prevention.
Are we over that hump? Are we through that ditch?
>> No, sadly not. But fortunately, there are still a lot of experts in the world, including in the African region who can respond to something like this, both from the sort of laboratory and the epidemiology, the clinical side of things. But sadly, we're not over that.
And and I think that this is a real concern because we are seeing globally that infectious disease outbreaks are becoming more frequent um and more consequential in terms of their impact on individual mortality, people dying, people getting very very sick, impacts on the economy um and impacts on travel.
So we are seeing that this is a growing problem. So it is extremely important that we don't close that door to multilateralism that we all actually all countries including the United States must work together because this is a growing growing trend and a growing concern. What what does South Africa do?
Just watch and wait or is there a role uh for us to play? And maybe not necessarily some decisions that need making yet, but uh possibility but possibly conversations about if decisions have to be make h have to be made, what needs weighing up.
>> Yes. And each country has a plan to respond to emergencies like this. Um and the the the plan what we call the international health regulations the instructions on what to do have been strengthened globally since the COVID uh pandemic. So South Africa has a plan and in fact we use that plan when we have the recent EMPOX outbreak. So we had what's called a national what we call an incident management team a group of experts plus all the provinces plus everyone in the department who are responding to that EMPOX outbreak. So in the event that we have an outbreak or we have a threat, we can uh immediately activate that emergency response. At this stage we're as you say this isn't uh highly transmissible but we are watching clearly and and clearly the uh National Institute of Communicable Diseases is is very alert to this and we'll be you know our surveillance will be there in case we see any cases that might have had contact might have come from the region that have suggestive symptoms but at the moment it's it's really watch and see. Um but just because we are in the the region and we do have for example the mining industry has interests in the DRC and people do travel. So we do need to think about what sort of surveillance we need to to have and and certainly um that that thinking is ongoing but at the moment there is no emergency required for South Africa. Thank you so much, Professor Helen Ree, executive director at the Vitz Reproductive Health Institute, but also someone uh with a very keen eye on what's happening with Ebola in the DRC, mainly Uganda as well, although I think there's a case of an American who has now uh moved to the US or is on his way to Germany. I wasn't entirely clear about that, but thank you, Profice. uh just explaining quite a few central things uh around that particular health difficulty on our own continent. 27 minutes past 5.
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>> Stephen Curtis, a very good afternoon to you once again. Markets, markets and the money show coming up at 6. Yeah, indeed.
Good afternoon to you, John. I mean, obviously oil prices are still the big issue and that's what's really having a bit of an impact. Um and the fact that oil prices are creeping again above $110 a barrel pushing many of the indices down. Uh US Treasury bonds have increased their yields again. They're down there too. Inflation fears beginning to take hold in much of the economy. Uh the global economy that should be I should say. The JSC or share down 1.1% on the day 113,654.
Well, I think as gold was creeping up, the pressure on the JSE just grew and particularly because platinum and gold prices were down. Financials down half a percent, industrials up nearly a full percent, but resources down 3.79 and that's what really dragged things down on the day. So we see Sabana down nearly 6%, Anglo Gold down 5.3, Goldfields, Implat Anglo Norm, all of them down significantly. We buy cars down 4% on the day. Yesterday, you'll remember they've uh six-month interim results pointing to the fact that while their volumes were slightly up, basically there had been secondhand car price deflation, and that was putting them under pressure. They had flagged that.
They were up yesterday, but they've given up a lot of that now. Boxer down 7.49% after that accelerated book build overnight where pick and pay sold the 11 and a half percent of the shares in boxes that they held. It now go it now only owns around 54%. Um pick and pay was also down being read as a signal that pick and pay needed the money around 4.7 billion rand to help finance that turnaround. All sorts of issues uh playing out in pick and pay at the moment. The Bites group they're an IT group headquartered in the UK up 5.8.
NUSpass and process both up by around 3 and a half%. Tunga up 3.6. Karu up nearly three. And PSG Finance they're up 2.41% 41% on the day. The hospital group Netcare announcing their executive head for strategy and health policy. Melanie D. Costa, she'll take over as CEO 1st of January. She's a charted financial analyst. Dr. Richard Freriededland is leaving the post as CEO. We did know that that was coming. That had been well flagged and so that now has essentially uh basically been uh confirmed. In the US markets opening down so concerns around inflation the Dow Jones is down.34 the Nasdaq is down 1.2 and the S&P 500 is down.76. And I just done a quick look at sends the stock exchange news service again. A very brief rating, a very brief comment from the city of Echoleni in the last few minutes saying no to holders are advised that GCR ratings is confirmed. The national scale long and short-term issuer ratings assigned to the city of Echoleni have been revised to negative. Um we've seen several issues around our municipalities. Don't forget trading in the JSE in the the city of Jerberg's bonds are still is still suspended on the JSE because we still don't have a full financial report. Uh we looking at the gold price at the moment uh they are uh it's down to $4,49151 platinum $1,93011 bring crude $11029.
And the ran to the dollar674 John bit weaker I'm afraid to the euro 1940 to the British pound 2241 on the money show the latest on the turnaround at pick and pay after that book build last night I don't know if you've been following all the talk in the US about a new AI model that can actually find almost any vulnerability in any system and we'll talk about what our banks are doing around that tonight I mean if you really want to lose sleep tonight you want to listen to the money show we'll talk about track and trace for cigarettes cigarettes and we'll also talk about the new tariffs on ITC on steel as well. And then in personal finance uh in terms of money, should you send your child to a private school or a government school and what the longerterm consequences of both of those choices will be. Warren Ingram did relationships last week. Now he's doing this. I mean, he's a braver man than me, John, I got to tell you. Steven Curtis, EWN Business.
Thanks Stephen. Uh a fascinating debate there and Warren Ingram always excellent at teasing out all the issues. Don't miss the money shows 6 to 8 28 minutes to 6.
Right, let's get the very latest eyewitness news with Bali Lamini.
>> Thanks John. Good afternoon.
Anti-aparted activist Reverend Frank Chagan has told the TRC cases inquiry that a former aparted police minister approached him with regards to its his poisoning desperate to keep their foot soldiers out of jail. Chane has been testifying before the inquiry today with his poisoning and the alleged cover up of that crime taking center stage. The commission led by retired judge Sicibe is probing delays in prosecuting aparted era crimes. Chane survived a poisoning in 1989 while in Namibia where his clothes were laced with a deadly nerve agent intended to induce a heart attack.
Dimakato reports.
>> Giving his evidence in chief Reverend Frank Chigan has told the TRC case inquiry that he endured severe trauma following torture and an attempt on his life where his clothes were laced with poison by aarted era security operatives. Chan says he survived only because of his role at the time as secretary general of the ACC.
>> I would have died in Namibia. What they didn't calculate is that we're going to stop and have breakfast and delayed whilst that chemical is working on you.
Delayed arriving where they thought I would die. He told the inquiry that as he began digging for information and trying to piece together the tapestry of how he was poisoned, it became clear that former apartate police officials were primarily focused on protecting their subordinates from prison.
Eyewitness News in New Town, Johannesburg.
>> Veteran musician and music producer Oscar Longa, popularly known as Oskido, says more investment is needed in South Africa's music scene as the industry grows at a global level. The multi-talented DJ, singer, and producer has been awarded the Silver Order of Ekamanga for his contribution to South African music. The national orders award ceremony took place at the sifakum makata presidential guest house in Ptoria today. Oskido says the arts sector needs more recognition.
>> We are in the new era of the music industry. So therefore we need to open our ears eyes and then we learn and then we educate each other on on this new process and with the music industry I mean fine we're doing well. I mean now they've really made it international. If you can look at now the Afro house scene, it's huge at the moment. So yeah, we're in a good space.
>> And Chinese authorities are evacuating thousands of people from flood affected areas. This comes as severe rainfall in southern and central China killed at least eight people in the recent days.
According to reports, landslides have submerged houses and damaged some roads.
Scientists have warned that the intensity and frequency of global extreme weather events will increase as the planet continues to heat up because of fossil fuel emissions. A partly cloudy Wednesday in store forgen tomorrow. Lows of between 6 and 12° and highs of between 17 and 18°.
>> North Cliff, you can still expect about a 20-minute delay. This is on Bayers Nia between judges on the N1 fairins heading towards um Sutoto. There's a bumper to bumper traffic N1 southbound from Bayers Nier to 14th Avenue and in Boxburg traveling towards Brabban. Expect about a 20-minute delay on the N17 eastbound between Ron Balt and Connival City due to ongoing road works.
>> A top story in EWN, anti-aparted activist Reverend Frank Chagane has told the TRC cases inquiry that a former parted police minister approached him with regards to his poisoning desperate to keep their foot soldiers out of jail.
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>> 702 WhatsApp John >> on 072 172 >> 172 >> Hi John, thanks for the great show. Good evening. Talking about uh family doctors, uh I just discovered that my family doctor who used to consult here in Lindesburg, Dr. Dave Gaplan passed away in 24. He was a very very good doctor. I don't think I'll ever get a better doctor. He was very good. He could laugh, talk about soccer, pirates, ker chiefs. He was always aware of of what's happening with everything.
May he s rest in peace Mr. Dave. Thank you Peter.
>> Hi John in the 70 lenders. Yo my experience when I was growing up we did have a family doctor and then he was good to us and then as I grew older no my interaction with doctors. Um there were two seasoned doctors that saw me in a space of 5 weeks and both of them could not diagnose that I had um contracted TB even though explaining that I was working in um mining settlement and I was coughing. I was only coughing and I had a very sharp uh shoulder back pain. So yeah, ever since you know I just prefer nurses honestly but I think I'll get over it.
you know, Musen, painters, everyone with the same crush. Thank you.
>> Hi, John. Our family doctor was a real friend and family doctor. He attended me through many bouts of tonsillitis.
He was present at my father's deathbed, came to my father's funeral. My mother knitted him a jersey as he attended her in her aged years and after she passed away as well.
Our family doctor was actually your father, John. This is Joe.
>> Oh, thank you. I I wish you described the jersey. I'll see if I can remember it, but thank you. Nice memories there.
Uh Ana from a doctor's perspective says uh this as a doctor I feel that the corporatization of health care will change doctoring forever and there seems no way out. I mean Nissa raising an issue that uh we can actually perhaps talk about uh in another way not necessarily uh getting your calls and everything but actually bringing in people is medicine becoming corporatized at the expense Ana would seem to be saying of the doctors as well. Very different issue raised by Salomi who says um why do we include 15 year olds when we talk about the youth unemployment rate? Aren't they supposed to still be at school? Well, the the education rules actually say learners must stay in school at least until they reach the age of 15 or finish grade nine. So that's why they're in the stats even if they are not in school. It's worrying. It's a very young age to uh be out of school and you know either through circumstance or choice feeling that you've concluded that particular part of your learning. 18 minutes to six >> EWN Sport >> right let's get the very latest sport from Anthony Tashada. We've been talking about cricket ticket prices. Anthony a little further into his report has got something about the Rugby World Cup coming up sometime next year. But before that, Premier League football. Yeah, good afternoon John. That's right.
There's two Premier League fixtures this evening left to be played in the penalt match day of the season. Man City heading to Bournemouth and a win would keep their title hopes alive until the last day of the season after Arsenal opened up a five-point lead at the top.
The Cherries have their own hopes on the line with a potential spot in the UEFA Champions League. Although the side would secure some kind of European football next to him if they pick up a point. Manager Andoni Areola says they want to make the most of their chance.
We are really close, but there is a big difference being really close and getting it and grabbing it. And we are in this moment where we have to do this final step. It's true that we have two two chances, but we want to do it tomorrow. We don't want to arrive to the last day. If we have to arrive, we will, but we definitely prefer to to grab the chance tomorrow.
>> At the opposite end of the table, Spurs will be on the hunt for survival as they head to Chelsea. Some Blues players might be wanting to show off for incoming manager Chabby Alonzo as well.
The earliest of those games will kick off at half 8. In rugby, we 500 days out from the 2027 Rugby World Cup and ticket applications have opened. It's also meant that we've had some insight into pricing with the Australian event looking to be the most expensive. In fact, if the Spring Box were to make the final to defend their title, top price tickets would cost around uh now 1,950 Australian dollars or around 23,000 rand. And legendary long-d distanceance runner Eloid Chips Gay has arrived on South African shores ahead of the weekend's Cape Town Marathon. It will be a first stop on his global initiative.
Louise of running world that will see him run marathons across all seven continents. The Olympic gold medalist opened up about his ambitions for the Cape Town Marathon.
>> My huge ambition is to see people running. My huge ambition is to make South Africans get out of shadows and secondly is that I want to make South Africa a running nation. And I know South Africa is a really sporting nation but I met more and more the South Africans.
>> Anthony Tasha Eyewitness News Sport >> EWN traffic.
>> This EWN traffic is brought to you by insurance. SMS out to 45142 now and you could save on car insurance. If you don't ask them for 500 rand problems in North Cliff earlier, seems like we've still got problems in North Cliff Charlie.
>> Yeah, John, I'm afraid we still well the delays have escalated to now 30 minutes uh in the Northcliffe area on Bayers Nia. This is between Judges and the N1.
While in Fairlands, traffic remains heavily backed up. That's heading towards Soetto N1 South from Bayers Nier to 14th Avenue in Melrose heading towards Midran. Traffic congested M1 northbound between Ethel Oakland and the Batu interchange while ini Pinoni uh slowmoving traffic on Atlas Road approaching the N12 Boxburg traveling towards Brabban. You can also expect about a 30-minute delay. Uh this is on the N17 eastbound between Randolt and Carnival City due to ongoing road works in Vat of Ptoria. There's more than a 30-minute delay. This is heading towards Lynwood on the N1 northbound uh between the R21 flying saucer interchange and Sturfall. Uh if you're leaving the Ptoria CBD uh in Herman Stad bumper to bumper traffic on STM Parel between Ponderof and the R80. If you come across any other traffic issues, kindly WhatsApp us on 07272172.
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>> Drive home with John Pearlman >> on 702. Let's walk the talk.
>> 702 drive. Okay. Music that can ruin your mood. I mean, ruin your mood might be putting a little bit strongly because maybe it just irritates you. But I guess we get irritated often enough and for long enough you it would be fair to say it ruins your mood. Now, we've been uh and and I I must commend you, Kabazella, because here's the song that really ruins your mood, but we've been playing it all day. Um, but tell us why this song. I mean, I I can't believe uh it's the worst song you've heard, but it's clearly it. Is it like fingernails on a chalkboard annoyance or what is it?
>> Yeah, I mean, you know, and this is all personal preference. What annoys me may be somebody's biggest hit or or um favorite song on their playlist. Right.
>> Right.
>> Um so, I mean, it's uh it's called Anxiety and the artist is Doi. That's how you pronounce her name. Um, and I mean she samples in the beginning there's a sample of uh Gotcha, somebody that I used to know.
>> Okay.
>> Uh, and then she goes into her own thing. So like when I first heard it, it got me and then I was like, but this is not Gotcha. This is something else.
>> She got you though.
>> Exactly. Um, but I think there's so many elements because there's like she'll in one part of the song she'll go >> and like those kind of things maybe just kind of annoy me a little bit and then the other reason is when this song came out it it kind of got popularized on Tik Tok.
>> So everybody's video that they were making on Tik Tok used this song as a as a soundtrack to whatever video they were making. So there's a combination of things. It's that it's some of the irritating sounds in the song. Um, and when I hear it, I get instantly irritated. My anxiety >> Yes.
>> goes up and then I change the channel.
>> Well, well, well, stay here because we want to see what happens to when the song is playing full ball. And I was about to say you say to you, well, avoid Tik Tok, but of course you can't because what's gone viral? Don't miss it with Bongani Binga every every single weekday. All right. See if you can sit tight. We'll fasten your seat belt. Here is Doi. Here we go.
Anxiety.
I feel it quietly.
Silence me anxiety sh's my anxiety.
>> Songs that ruin your mood. Send them our way, please. And we'll make your day even worse by well, we'll we'll play it, but we'll keep it really, really short.
I promise. 702 drive. It's 9 minutes to 5. The number to use. 07272172.
>> I'm sorry. You only get one. Quiet on the set, please.
>> Aubry >> weekday evenings >> 8 to midnight.
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702 WhatsApp John >> on 072.
>> Okay, so you wanted music that ruins your mood. Um, I would have to say anything by James Blunt. I just can't stand his whiny voice, his icky wicky uh lyrics, and no, James Blunt just doesn't do it for me.
My life is brilliant.
My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel of that. I'm sure she smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another sleep.
>> I mean, there's James Blunt saying, "You're beautiful." And you say you can't stand him. songs that ruin your mood. And as Kabazella said, the song that makes me crazy. I'm paraphrasing him now. Could be one that somebody else absolutely loves. Now, here's Tibor from Centurion. Evening John. The one song that ruins my mood is Justin Bieber's Baby. My little sister played that song all day. Every day. I guess even a song you like, if it's played all day, every day might actually turn into something you really can't stand.
Oh, you know you love me. I know you care and I'll be there. You want my love and we will never ever ever be aart.
We quit playing.
We're just saying there's another look right in my eyes. My first love broke my heart for the first time. And I was like, "Baby, baby, baby, oh, baby, baby, baby." No.
Like, baby, baby, baby, oh, thought you'd always be mine.
Baby, baby, baby. Oh, baby, baby, baby.
Like, baby, baby, baby. Oh.
Justin Bieber there with baby. Boy, goodness, we're getting suddenly a flood and I'm seeing amongst them some songs that I like, but I'm going to keep that to myself.
>> Hi, John. Oh, the lady that just said h blunt music doesn't do it for her. I'm telling you, I'm ready to fight her. I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready.
The song that ruins my mood is that Beyonce song from Cowboy Cut. I don't even know the name of the song, but they used to like playing it on 947. Oh, I hate that song. It is terrible.
This ain't >> ain't no lays down.
So yourex >> and I'll be damned if I can't slow dance honey now.
>> Okay, so that one gets a definite no.
Drove me crazy, says the listener Beyonce. um with Texas Holde went to number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.
The fact that other people liked it doesn't mean it didn't drive you crazy.
This one afternoon I can't stand anything by Laura Brangan. My sister always used to play it as hard as possible and she still does. Here's the bad news. So do we.
You're always on the run now.
You got to get him.
I think you got to slow down.
I think it really was Laura Bran again all the way back from 1982. That's a lot of years to be annoyed by a song. I'm just working it out. 44 years of your sister blasting you with Gloria. That's all we got time for. And the good news for you, I suppose, is that the song as well will come to an end. Hope you've enjoyed being with us on 702 drive. We've loved having you. From all of us, have a great Tuesday. Good night.
>> And now, the money show >> with Steven live on 92.7 and 106 FM, streaming on the Prime Media Plus app >> and DSTV channel 856.
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