# ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula says party ward councillor candidates who do not have a matric qualification will be required to apply for a waiver ahead of the November local government elections. This comes as some provincial secretaries have written to the party seeking waivers for some new prospective councillors who do not have […]
# Die Tshwane Metropolisiedepartement het Maandag 20 onwettige immigrante in Bronkhorstspruit en Atteridgeville in hegtenis geneem tydens geteikende wetstoepassingsoptredes teen onwettige immigrante. In die Bronkhorstspruit-omgewing alleen is 16 mense in hegtenis geneem vir oortredings van die Immigrasiewet. Die Metropolisie-woordvoerder, Puleng Motholo, sê ‘n totaal van 59 AARTO-oortredingskennisgewings is ook uitgereik en talle geboue is tydens […]
# Die onderwysaktivis Hendrick Makaneta het kommer uitgespreek oor ʼn beweerde poging tot seksuele aanranding by die Villa Liza Secondary School in Boksburg, oos van Johannesburg. Volgens die Gautengse Onderwysdepartement het ʼn graad 8-leerder verlede Donderdag na die skool se toilette gegaan toe twee leerders haar glo gevolg, vasgehou en probeer het om van haar […]
# ActionSA sê hy verwerp die bewering deur die Polisie- en Gevangenisse-burgerregte-unie dat sy aansoek om ‘n hersiening van die dissiplinêre uitkomste rondom die Presidensiële Beskermingsdiens-beamptes, Wally Rhoode en Hennie Rekhoto, op politieke inmenging neerkom. Die party het ‘n hofaansoek ingedien waarin die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens daarvan beskuldig word dat die twee beskerm is vir hul […]
# Die leier van Build One South Africa, Mmusi Maimane, het president Cyril Ramaphosa gevra om op te tree teen dié wat verantwoordelik is vir die dood van meer as 100 Suid-Afrikaners weens landwye munisipale infrastruktuurmislukkings. Die voorvalle sluit in die Hammanskraal-cholera-uitbraak en die brand in die Usindiso-gebou. Maimane vra duidelike tydlyne en spesifieke datums […]
# Soccer: Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes won the men’s Professional Footballers’ Association Players’ Player of the Year award for the 2025/2026 season, while Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw won the women’s award. Fernandes broke the record for Premier League assists last season, setting up 21 goals as he surpassed Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne. […]
# Iran and Oman have outlined a proposal to establish a temporary shipping channel through the Strait of Hormuz. The announcement comes as US president Donald Trump reiterated that all mines in the critical waterway have been cleared while threatening to destroy any Iranian ships that try to place more. The proposed framework includes facilitating […]
# ANC National Executive Committee member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has retracted comments she made on the African Renaissance Podcast against minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola. She accused Lamola and ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula of participating in vote-buying during the party’s 2017 and 2022 National Conferences respectively, which they have both denied. Dlamini-Zuma alleged […]
# Tributes are pouring in following the passing of country music legend Dolly Parton at the age of 80. He team has confirmed that she died following a brief battle with cancer. Beatles legend Paul McCartney called Parton a magnificent star, while Elton John dubbed her a giant of an artist who was irreplaceable. Beyoncé […]
