# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has called on South Africans to honour the legacy of struggle stalwart Oliver Reginald Tambo through active citizenship, responsible voting and community service. Speaking at a wreath-laying ceremony at Tamboville Cemetery in Ekurhuleni, Mashatile said building a better South Africa was a shared responsibility between government and citizens. He urged […]
# A former ANC security chief, Tito Maleka, has been linked to an alleged State Security Agency operation to spy on the EFF. An intelligence source, testifying in the 12-million-rand fraud trial of former State Security Agency officials Thulani Dlomo and Patrick Mshotola, told the High Court in Pretoria Maleka guided him on how to […]
# The City of Cape Town invites applications for next year’s junior city council programme, which offers young people an opportunity to develop leadership skills and learn how local government works. Applications will open on the first of next month. Learners who will be in grade ten or eleven next year and live in Cape […]
# Action Society urges the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development to set a firm deadline for public access to the national register for sex offenders. After six years of campaigning, the organisation argues parents still have no way to check whether adults around their children have been convicted of child sex offences. Action Society’s […]
# Police arrested 17-thousand-914 suspects during nationwide crime-fighting operations in the past week, as preparations for the festive season intensify. They also arrested 267 alleged drug dealers, dismantled two clandestine drug laboratories in Gauteng and the North West, and seized cocaine worth more than 200-million-rand at OR Tambo International Airport after it arrived from Brazil. […]
# The Information Regulator has fined FNB one-million-rand and Central Johannesburg TVET College 500-thousand-rand for contraventions of the Protection of Personal Information Act. The bank was fined over security weaknesses that exposed customers’ personal information, while the college was penalised for unlawfully sharing personal data and failing to follow the regulator’s directives. The regulator’s Nomzamo […]
# South African National Parks says Kruger National Park’s Skukuza rest camp main gate in Mpumalanga will be temporarily closed from 2 November until 4 December for essential roof repairs. Visitors will be redirected to a temporary entrance via Hippo Circle Street, near the Skukuza medical surgery, through AM Spa and Skukuza Safari Lodge. SANParks’ […]
# Gambling law expert Wayne Lurie says the proposed national tax on online gambling is not yet final and still requires parliamentary approval before it can take effect. Lurie urges the National Treasury to conduct proper economic modelling and consult affected stakeholders before finalising the proposal, with the final design expected to be announced in […]
# The GOOD Party has criticised DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis over his comments about South Africa’s fifth Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Navi Pillay. In a radio interview last week, Hill-Lewis defended his party’s failure to acknowledge Pillay’s achievements and described her as divisive. GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron says Hill-Lewis’s comments about Pillay are similar to […]
