# President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will address the nation in a few days on the steps government is taking to confront gender-based violence and femicide. He will also provide an update on the investigation into the killings of nine women in and around Ekurhuleni. The president announced this at the National Heritage Day celebrations […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans to guard against forces that seek to undermine national unity. He delivered the keynote address during the National Heritage Day celebrations at Bongolethu Sports Stadium in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, yesterday. Ramaphosa said in the past, the country’s common enemy was apartheid, and the enemy today is […]
# The EFF says AfriForum’s relentless political prosecution against Julius Malema has reached an unprecedented low in weaponising the justice system. The National Prosecuting Authority has decided to prosecute Malema for crimen injuria over rape allegations he made about former Bergview College principal Jaco Pieterse. The case involved a seven-year-old girl who was allegedly raped […]
# Die EFF sê AfriForum se meedoënlose politieke vervolging van Julius Malema het ‘n ongekende laagtepunt bereik deur die regstelsel as wapen te gebruik. Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag het besluit om Malema vir crimen injuria te vervolg na aanleiding van sy verkragtingsbewerings teen die voormalige hoof van Bergview College, Jaco Pieterse. Die saak het betrekking op […]
# The South African Communist Party is calling for law enforcement agencies to be strengthened to dismantle organised criminal networks and reduce threats to working-class and rural communities. This follows the mass shooting which left eleven people dead in KwaMakhutha township, KwaZulu-Natal, earlier this week. Initial investigations point towards a feud between rival groupings as […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party vra wetstoepassingsagentskappe om georganiseerde misdaadnetwerke te ontbloot en bedreigings vir die werkersklas- en landelike gemeenskappe te verminder. Dit volg op die massaskietery waarin elf mense vroeër die week in die KwaMakhutha-township, KwaZulu-Natal, dood is. Voorlopige ondersoeke dui op ‘n vete tussen mededingende groeperings as motief vir die moorde. Die SAKP […]
# Die Nasionale Vrouestruktuur van die Nasionale Mynwerkersunie doen ‘n beroep op president Cyril Ramaphosa om die verklaring van die presidensiële beraad van 2018 oor geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord dringend in werking te stel. Nthabiseng Mashiteng van die vakbond verwelkom die ondersoek na die onlangse moorde op vroue in Ekurhuleni, asook die ondersoek na dreigemente wat […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers’ National Women Structure calls on president Cyril Ramaphosa to urgently implement the 2018 presidential summit declaration on gender-based violence and femicide. The union’s Nthabiseng Mashiteng welcomes the investigation into the recent killings of women in Ekurhuleni and the probe into threats allegedly made against women by businessman Lawrence Mudzinganyama. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sal vandag die Nasionale Erfenisdag-vieringe by die Rosemoor-stadion in Thembalethu, George, in die Wes-Kaap lei. Die viering vind plaas onder die tema: “Vier ons lewende erfenis: Versterk die bande wat ons verenig“. Die Presidensie sê die tema beklemtoon die rol van ‘n lewendige erfenis in die bevordering van nasionale eenheid, maatskaplike […]