UNAIDS SA: "South Africa is making significant growth strides in the management of HIV/ AIDS"
United Nations body - UNAIDS and the South African National Aids Council are today launching the Global AIDS Update Report 2025 titled: AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform' in Ekurhuleni. Studies show that New HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa have been reduced by 56% and with the largest antiretroviral roll-out programme in the world. South Africa has contributed to the 54% decline in HIV-related deaths since 2010. These are some of the key findings highlighted in the 2025 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update.... But for more we are joined on the line by Eva Kiwango; Director for UNAIDS South Africa
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"If Ramaphosa will not act against Police Minister, we will" - DA presses criminal charges against Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu
The Democratic Alliance says lying to parliament is a serious criminal offense and anyone found wanting should face the full might of the law. This as party deputy chief whip, Baxolile Nodada held a media briefing a short while ago outside the Cape Town police station ahead of laying criminal charges against Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu. Mchunu is alleged to have lied to parliament about knowing Brown Mogotsi. Mogotsi has been implicated in alleged political interference in police operations by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. Mkhwanazi has also accused Mchunu and other senior officials of colluding with a criminal syndicate linked to drug cartels and politically connected figures. The DA's Nodada says if President Cyril Ramaphosa will not act on Minister Mchunu, they will. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Fanele Mhlongo
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What's next for Olympian, Caster Semenya following European Court of Human Rights victory?
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights has upheld a 2023 ruling that Caster Semenya's appeal to a Swiss Federal Tribunal against World Athletics regulations that barred her from competing, had not been properly heard. The two-time 800-metre Olympic Games gold medalist is appealing the regulation that female athletes with differences in sexual development, medically reduce their testosterone levels. The verdict of the Grand Chamber, however, does not set aside these rules, but it keeps Semenya's legal challenge alive. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC's Janet Whitton
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South African courts overwhelmed with a number of cases that need to go to trial.
There continues to be mixed reaction to the directive of the Office of the Judiciary that civil matters must first go through mediation before going to trial. This as an attempt to ease severe delays in the courts, which until now have caused new cases to be set down for trial in 2031. About 150-thousand cases are reportedly to have been settled in a year in the South Gauteng region alone. For more on this we spoke to Advocate Lizelle Haskins, publicity secretary at the National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa.
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Western Cape Community Safety MEC Anroux Marais: "Ganterism is a very big issue in some parts of the Western Cape, we are working with communities to identify the root cause"
Mass shootings have become common in Cape Town. The most recent mass shooting in Cape Town was on Saturday, 5 July, when three people were gunned down inside a shack in the Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni. To address this various Police executives are today hosting Community Police Forums from accross the Western Cape. Affected areas include various areas of Mitchells Plain, Gugulethu, Khayelitsha among others that has claimed scores of lives. For more we spoke to MEC of Police Oversight and Community Safety in the Western Cape Anroux Marais
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