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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting American envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo Norway.
This after U.S. President Donald Trump called for someone else to negotiate peace with Russia on Kyiv's behalf. Relations have deteriorated over Trump's recent diesel deal with Russia that undercut sweeping sanctions with Zelenskyy accusing Washington of betrayal and rewarding President Vladimir Putin. Trump says Ukraine's leader is obstructing peace efforts. The talks come as Kyiv reports delays in American weapons deliveries and disruptions to military satellite support—claims Washington denied as reflecting a deliberate withdrawal of assistance. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports.

Angry residents and parents at a Junior Primary school in Zola, Soweto have called for justice to prevail. This after the alleged rape of a nine-year-old Grade 4 learner. The suspect, who is an English teacher at the school is accused of attacking the minor inside the school toilets. Police confirmed that a case has been opened and handed over for investigation. Our reporter, Puseletso Mokoena has more ...

Rise Mzansi's Jo'burg mayoral candidate, Lukhona Mnguni, says his party will do away with the City of Jo'burg's agencies in an effort to fix the causes of poor service delivery in the metro. He said this at the launch of the Rise Mzansi's Governance Plan for the City of Johannesburg which took place in Rosebank, Johannesburg. The party, together with its campaigning partner the GOOD Party, has also warned residents of the country's richest metro against voting for DA Mayoral candidate, Helen Zille. Busi Bopela reports...

Analysts say finance minister Enoch Godongwana will aim to strike a sustainable balance between spending priorities against collected revenue while seeking to narrow the budget deficit and contain debt when he tables the midterm budget policy statement in Parliament on Wednesday. Government data shows that revenue improved at 39-percent of the budget supported by a commodity price boom recorded this year. SABC Economics Reporter Naledi Mabitsela-Ngcobo filed this report

The FF-Plus it targeting the City of Tshwane, and is open to form coalition governments after the local government elections. That's what party leader, Dr Corné Mulder, told the party's supporters during a community meeting in Durbanville, Cape Town last night (20 October). Yamkela Mtshiyo reports...