# The Gauteng Department of Health urges parents and guardians to sign consent forms for their children to be vaccinated against measles. The six-week drive, running until 12 September, aims to vaccinate over three-million children. The province has reported more than 400 confirmed measles cases since January. The department’s Motalatale Modiba cautions that low consent […]
# Stellenbosch University is mourning the death of renowned botanist and curator of the university’s botanical garden, Donovan Kirkwood. He died after a fall in the Jonkershoek mountains during a conservation trip on Tuesday. Kirkwood was surveying critically endangered plant species with CapeNature and Cambridge University officials, working to save the critically endangered Penaea formosa […]
# The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport has rejected claims of mismanagement in the scholar transport programme, following allegations of corruption and bribery. The department condemned leaked internal letters as unethical. The department’s Ndabezinhle Sibiya says Transport and Human Settlements MEC Siboniso Duma, along with the MECs for Education and Finance, is actively addressing budget cuts […]
# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is overhauling student accommodation to prevent evictions and delays in allowance payments. The overhaul aims to strengthen governance, improve service delivery, and ensure timely payments to landlords. This year, over 112-thousand students received housing, but nearly 38-thousand beds are still pending approval. NSFAS acting CEO Waseem Carrim said […]
# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is stepping up efforts to recover student loans, focusing on borrowers who received funding before 2018. Those earning above 30-thousand-rand a year must start repayments, with accounts possibly handed to authorised external debt collectors if overdue. NSFAS acting CEO Waseem Carrim confirmed five authorised debt collection agencies:
# The African Congress for Transformation says the suspension of Justice and Constitutional Development director-general Doctor Mashabane and his deputy Jabu Hlatshwayo shows the judiciary has been captured. The party says delays in the Madlanga Judicial Commission show the ANC is using inquiries as smokescreens to shield corruption and protect cadres. Party spokesperson Mohau Khumalo […]
# The DA welcomed today’s Western Cape Equality Court ruling finding EFF leader Julius Malema guilty of hate speech. They commend the South African Human Rights Commission for holding Malema accountable for the Brackenfell High School incident in Cape Town in 2022, where violence broke out and he told supporters to seek revenge against a […]
# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is taking decisive action to ensure students get funding despite a ten-billion-rand shortfall in university allocations and two-billion-rand gap for TVET colleges. NSFAS board chairperson Karen Stander told the media over 780-thousand students have received funding so far, while measures are underway to streamline appeals, improve student accommodation, […]
# The GOOD Party says the DA’s Ian Cameron’s decision to carry a gun during a visit to Philippi in the Western Cape is deeply disturbing. Cameron used the gun when his vehicle came under attack last week during an oversight visit. GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron says Cameron’s actions symbolise colonial-era notions of civilised Whites […]
