# South Africa’s public universities are facing severe strain due to ongoing dysfunction within the National Student Financial Aid Scheme and Sector Education and Training Authorities. North-West University’s Linda du Plessis warns that delayed payments, defunding, and poor governance are crippling institutions tasked with delivering quality education. While student struggles dominate headlines, the financial and […]
# Former apartheid-era police member Johan Marais has been sentenced to 15-years in prison for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. The 66-year-old earlier pleaded guilty in the High Court in Pretoria to gunning down Nyoka at his Daveyton home . Presiding Judge Mokhine Mosopa said the sentence must serve as both punishment and deterrent. The […]
# Cosatu has lauded looming criminal charges against those responsible for the George building collapse that killed 34 workers and injured 28 in May 2024. Public Works minister Dean Macpherson confirmed the charges, following reports revealing systemic failures and unqualified personnel. The Engineering Council’s final report points to professional negligence. Cosatu’s Zanele Sabela says it […]
# The Department of Water and Sanitation has begun public consultations on proposed raw water use charges for the 2026/27 financial year. According to the department, the process aims to ensure that users, including agriculture, industry, mines, and households, pay for water resource management, infrastructure, and research. Charges cover abstraction, discharge, and non-consumptive use. The […]
# The UN Trade and Development organisation says Africa was the only developing continent to record trade growth in the first half of 2025. Exports rose by five-percent and intra-African trade jumped by 16-percent. In contrast, global South-to-South trade, which is trade among developing countries, stagnated, and imports dropped by two-percent. While global trade grew […]
# Athletics: South Africa’s Caster Semenya has won her case in the European Court of Human Rights. The court has upheld the 2023 ruling against the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland against the two-time Olympic 800-metre champion. It found the ruling discriminated after Semenya was barred from competing due to World Athletics’ testosterone-limiting […]
# Former police officer Johan Marais will be sentenced in the Gauteng High Court sitting in Benoni today for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. The prominent East Rand student leader was shot at his home by an apartheid-era police unit. Marais confessed in 2019 and pleaded guilty last year. The sentencing marks […]
# UNAIDS and the South African National AIDS Council are launching the Global AIDS update at the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Johannesburg, today. Titled AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, the report warns that donor funding cuts, especially from the US, threaten decades of progress. It highlights that nearly 40-million people are living with […]
# Athletics: South Africa’s double Olympic champion, Caster Semenya, will learn today if she can be forced to lower her testosterone levels to compete as a woman. The European Court of Human Rights is expected to make a key ruling after years of legal battles. Semenya, legally identified as female, has refused medication since 2018 […]
