# President Cyril Ramaphosa has commended Sasol’s contribution to South Africa’s economy, highlighting its role in supporting industrialisation, energy security, manufacturing, infrastructure development and job creation. He visited Sasol’s Secunda Operations in Mpumalanga yesterday, where approximately 35-million-tonnes of locally mined coal are beneficiated each year. This is to produce a wide range of fuel and […]
# The University of Cape Town has partnered with Applied Higher Education to launch the all-Africa rankings initiative, aimed at creating an African-led framework for measuring university excellence. Universities across the continent have been invited to help shape the initiative during a conference in Cape Town later this month. The university’s Mosa Moshabela says the […]
# Construction has officially begun on the Western Cape government’s 1.2-billion-rand Welmoed Estate housing development in Eerste River. The project is expected to deliver eight-thousand housing opportunities by 2040, with the first phase providing more than three-thousand-200 homes by 2030. Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers says the mixed-use development will also include schools, a clinic, retail […]
# The Brakpan Magistrate’s Court has postponed the murder case against suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and four others to 13 August. Mkhwanazi will remain in custody after the state opposed bail. The five are accused of murdering businessman Emmanuel Mbense, whose body was found in a dam near Nigel. Mkhwanazi’s lawyer, […]
# The state has told the Brakpan Magistrate’s Court that suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and four co-accused agreed to keep silent after the alleged murder of businessman Emmanuel Mbense, and that anyone who spoke out would be killed. Mbense was assaulted, tortured and his body dumped in a dam near Nigel […]
# The DA says the Western Cape government’s sanitary dignity project will receive nearly 13-million-rand in the 2026/2027 financial year to support almost 190-thousand girl learners at 715 public schools. The party’s Wendy Kaizer-Philander says the programme provides free sanitary products, helping to keep girls in school, protect their dignity and improve their health and […]
# Die Brakpan-landdroshof het die moordsaak teen die geskorste adjunkhoof van die Ekurhuleni-metropolisie, Julius Mkhwanazi, en vier ander tot 13 Augustus uitgestel. Mkhwanazi sal in aanhouding bly nadat die staat borgtog teengestaan het. Die vyf word daarvan beskuldig dat hulle die sakeman Emmanuel Mbense, wie se liggaam in ‘n dam naby Nigel gevind is, vermoor […]
# Die DA sê die Wes-Kaapse regering se projek vir sanitêre waardigheid sal byna 13-miljoen-rand in die 2026/2027 finansiële jaar ontvang om nagenoeg190 duisend meisie-leerders by 715 openbare skole te ondersteun. Wendy Kaizer-Philander van die party sê die program voorsien gratis sanitêre produkte, wat help om meisies op skool te hou, hul waardigheid te beskerm […]
# Die staat het die Brakpan-landdroshof meegedeel die geskorste adjunkhoof van die Ekurhuleni-metropolisie, Julius Mkhwanazi, en vier medebeskuldigdes het ooreengekom om stil te bly na die beweerde moord op die sakeman Emmanuel Mbense, en dat enigiemand wat sou praat, doodgemaak sou word. Mbense is in 2022 aangerand, gemartel en sy liggaam is in ‘n dam […]
