# The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union in KwaZulu-Natal has welcomed the Education Departement’s confirmation yesterday that 90-thousand-and-57 teacher posts had been allocated and funded in the province. SADTU’s Nomarashiya Caluza says cutting posts would have been disastrous, and the decision defeats an austerity agenda of budget cuts and vacancy freezes. But Caluza is critical […]
# Deputy minister in the Presidency Nonceba Mhlauli says the Presidential Youth Employment Intervention secured 139,693 earning opportunities for youth between April and June. Of these, 106-thousand were through SA Youth and 33-thousand-600 through the Employment Services of South Africa system. The programme helps young people move from education into work through employment, workplace experience, […]
# The City of Johannesburg launches October Transport Month tomorrow, marking 21 years since the 2005 Transport Lekgotla. Under the theme “Working Together Through Public Private Partnerships”, the campaign showcases transport service delivery as South Africa marks 32 years of democracy. City spokesperson Virgil James says priorities include cutting congestion, repairing roads, road safety, cycling […]
# Seven leopards have returned to South Africa’s West Coast after disappearing 170 years ago, with the first confirmed sighting in the West Coast National Park captured on camera last year. General Manager Bool Smuts of the Landmark Foundation, a non-governmental conservation dedicated to human-wildlife conflict management, says the predators were hunted in the mid […]
#The National Youth Unemployment Movement noted Quarterly Employment Statistics showing employed persons fell from 10.43 million in March to 10.42 million in June, a decline of 14-thousand. NYUM’s Lindokuhle Yende says every job lost affects income and livelihood. Yende is concerned that young people face barriers including limited experience, skills mismatches and difficult school-to-work transitions […]
# The Cape Independence Advocacy Group condemns minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s remark that those who feel South Africa is not good for them should leave, calling it abhorrent and hypocritical. Spokesperson Phil Craig says citizens protesting crime, racial discrimination and chants calling for murder are performing civic duty, not being unpatriotic:
# ActionSA says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s address on gender-based violence was too late and failed to acknowledge the ongoing crisis and weakened criminal justice system leaving women and children vulnerable. The party’s Herman Mashaba says while welcoming the case audit, SAPS detectives are overwhelmed and cannot process cold cases. Mashaba says leaders report police operating […]
# Forum for South Africa says president Ramaphosa’s address on gender-based-violence offers little new, though it welcomes commitments. The group’s Tebogo Mashilompane says South Africans heard promises before while women continue to die. He calls for decisive action to close legal loopholes, prioritise law reform, strengthen enforcement and ensure perpetrators face consequences. Mashilompane urged public […]
# Action Society says women don’t need president Cyril Ramaphosa to again identify government’s failures in tackling gender-based violence and femicide; they need him to explain why his government has allowed this crisis to continue. The president announced a series of measures including an audit of unresolved cases involving women and children, and ways to […]
