# Missing in Southern Africa says bikers, police, emergency responders and community groups united in Johannesburg for a run in aid of missing children, held at Turffontein Primary School in honour of Milano Tladi, who was two when he went missing on the 30th of June. His parents, Monique and Thebogo Tladi, attended. Spokesperson Priya […]
# Criminologist Chris Kanyane says criminals are running amok in South Africa amid a broken criminal justice system. This follows the recent mass shootings in Gauteng, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal that left over 30 people dead. Kanyane says collapsing investigations, low convictions and under-resourced police have emboldened offenders, leaving communities to live in fear. He […]
# The Free Market Foundation says the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act debate is framed as School Governing Body autonomy versus state power; however, the real issue is South Africa’s hybrid education governance model from 1996. The Act aims to strengthen governance within the education sector. The foundation says the problem is not simply that […]
# The Western Cape is honouring teachers on World Teachers’ Day, with October declared Teacher Appreciation Month. The provincial Education Department has urged communities to thank teachers for all their hard work. MEC Jaco Londt praised national award winners Mthobi Fihla, Danielle Bosch and Hortense Stegmann for their leadership and inclusive education efforts. He says […]
# 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 […]
