# The Gauteng Education Department says rising demand and budget cuts have strained funding, causing delayed payments to service providers in its Extended National School Nutrition Programme. The Department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona says the provincial extension supports vulnerable learners in fee-paying schools. He emphasised that meals remain uninterrupted, engagements with providers are ongoing, and a […]
# The DA is demanding accountability after reports of abuse and overcrowding of mental health patients at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Tshwane. DA spokesperson, Madeleine Hicklin, says patients are crammed into crumbling wards despite a completed upgrade plan submitted in 2022. Hicklin highlights severe staff shortages, poor infrastructure, and deplorable conditions. She calls […]
# Soccer: South Africa’s 2026 World Cup hopes have been dealt a blow after FIFA sanctioned the South African Football Assiciation for fielding ineligible midfielder Teboho Mokoena in the match against Lesotho. The match has been forfeited, with Lesotho awarded a 3-0 victory. Safa has also been fined 200-thousand-rand, while Mokoena received a warning. The […]
# Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has expressed shock after the Special Investigating Unit uncovered two-billion-rand in healthcare looting at Tembisa Hospital. The probe was launched in 2021 after whistleblower Babita Deokaran’s assassination and has revealed at least three coordinated syndicates behind the corruption. Receiving the interim report, Motsoaledi questioned why the hospital was targeted and […]
# The GOOD Party welcomes its national chairperson Matthew Cook as Chairperson of Johannesburg’s Finance Section 79 Oversight Committee. Secretary-general Brett Herron says Cook’s appointment is key to restoring accountability and transparency in the city’s finances. Cook pledges to tackle wasteful expenditure, inefficiency, and poor oversight, ensuring entities like City Power and Joburg Water are […]
# Table Mountain National Park has deployed ground crews to combat a wildfire near the Pipe Track in Camps Bay. South African National Parks spokesperson JP Louw says around 50 firefighters from SANParks, City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue, Volunteer Wildfire Services, and Working on Fire are on site. A helicopter from George is […]
# The Special Investigating Unit has linked a Tembisa Hospital corruption syndicate to businessman Hangwani Morgan Maumela, nephew of president Cyril Ramaphosa. SIU head Andy Mothiba says Maumela’s network funneled 816-million-rand through one-thousand-728 purchase orders, bypassing procurement rules. Associates, including Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala, also benefited. He confirmed fraudulent splitting of tenders as both successful and […]
# DA Gauteng is demanding urgent intervention at Wedela Technical High in the Merafong City Local Municipality in Gauteng, where cable theft and vandalism have left more than one-thousand-400 learners without water and electricity. The DA’s Sergio Isa Dos Santos says the school has faced disruptions for seven years, worsened by the withdrawal of security […]
# The DA in Gauteng has called for persons in corrupt syndicates implicated in the Tembisa Hospital scandal to be prosecuted. Former finance official Babita Deokaran was assasinated after blowing the whistle. The DA’s Jack Bloom confirmed to Newzroom Afrika that officials implicated are yet to be criminally charged. The Special Investigating Unit’s interim report […]
