In the news at 2:
**South Africa's business confidence index stumbled in the first quarter due to the negative impact of power outages.
**Scores of workers affiliated to the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union are gathered outside Satawu in Johannesburg.
**Sixteen year old Marli van Breda has been released from the Vergelegen Medi-Clinic in Somerset-West after surviving a brutal attack on her family where both her parents and older brother were killed.
AND....**Arms manufacturer Denel will work with GEW Technologies, owned by Airbus, on future electronic warfare programmes for South Africa.
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