The interception of food supplies headed for illegal mining activities at various shafts around Welkom in the Free State has forced some illegal miners to the surface in a bid to escape starvation underground. The Free State based Operation Vala uMgodi that forms part of the national intervention against illegal mining operations has managed to halt illegal operations in one of the shafts. The task team, which has been in operation since December has to date arrested about two-thousand-800 zama zamas. Konelo Lekhafola reports... 

The interception of food supplies headed for illegal mining activities at various shafts around Welkom in the Free State has forced some illegal miners to the surface in a bid to escape starvation underground. The Free State based Operation Vala uMgodi that forms part of the national intervention against illegal mining operations has managed to halt illegal operations in one of the shafts. The task team, which has been in operation since December has to date arrested about two-thousand-800 zama zamas. Konelo Lekhafola reports...

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, live on weekdays from 12 noon to 1 pm on SAfm 104-107fm

Update@Noon

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award-winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, on weekdays from noon to 1pm on SAfm 104-107fm. 

News and Current Affairs Show hosted by award-winning presenter Sakina Kamwendo, on weekdays from noon to 1pm on SAfm 104-107fm.

Interception of food supplies aimed at aiding illegal mining activities in Welkom forces some illegal miners to the surface

 Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu has arrived in Stilfontein in the North West where an estimated 4000 illegal miners remain trapped underground. This as police have been conducting operation Vala Umgodi in the area by blocking supply routes of water and food to the miners. Local community members have since been volunteering to rescue the trapped miners while the police remain on standby to arrest them once on the surface. Before we bring you the latest from the mine, earlier on I caught up with Masibulele Naki, regional secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in the North West who gave us a brief personal history of the mine...

Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu has arrived in Stilfontein in the North West where an estimated 4000 illegal miners remain trapped underground. This as police have been conducting operation Vala Umgodi in the area by blocking supply routes of water and food to the miners. Local community members have since been volunteering to rescue the trapped miners while the police remain on standby to arrest them once on the surface. Before we bring you the latest from the mine, earlier on I caught up with Masibulele Naki, regional secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in the North West who gave us a brief personal history of the mine...

North West community members continue to volunteer in efforts to rescue illegal miners, as police remain on standby to effect arrests.

Limpopo Premier, Phophi Ramathuba is expected to appear before the Health Professions Council of South Africa. This is over her utterances captured on video to a patient from Zimbabwe in 2022 in which she is alleged to have said that Zimbabwe does not assist with money to care for its nationals being treated in Limpopo hospitals. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Horisani Sithole 

Limpopo Premier, Phophi Ramathuba is expected to appear before the Health Professions Council of South Africa. This is over her utterances captured on video to a patient from Zimbabwe in 2022 in which she is alleged to have said that Zimbabwe does not assist with money to care for its nationals being treated in Limpopo hospitals. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Horisani Sithole

Lawyers for Limpopo Premier, Phophi Ramathuba, appear before Health Professions Council of SA over her 2022 utterances 

Open Secrets is calling on  the National Prosecuting  Authority (NPA)  to urgently probe alleged  'looted Congolese funds' funneled into SA properties. In 2023, Open Secrets and Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa lodged a complaint with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) seeking a seizure and forfeiture order against properties believed to have been purchased with corrupt cash by relatives and associates of former DRC president Joseph Kabila. Open Secrets says South African  authorities failed to follow up on the complaint despite efforts to improve money laundering. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Abby May, Investigator at Open Secrets.

Open Secrets is calling on  the National Prosecuting  Authority (NPA)  to urgently probe alleged  'looted Congolese funds' funneled into SA properties. In 2023, Open Secrets and Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa lodged a complaint with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) seeking a seizure and forfeiture order against properties believed to have been purchased with corrupt cash by relatives and associates of former DRC president Joseph Kabila. Open Secrets says South African  authorities failed to follow up on the complaint despite efforts to improve money laundering. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Abby May, Investigator at Open Secrets.

Interception of food supplies aimed at aiding illegal mining activities in Welkom forces some illegal miners to the surface

In 1 playlist(s)

Update@Noon

Social links

Recent clips