# Agricultural organisation TLU SA has welcomed plans to send rooibos seeds to the International Space Station. A total of 17-thousand-346 seeds are being sent as part of a scientific experiment exploring how space conditions could affect their growth. The seeds, weighing approximately 74.2 grams, will travel to Voyager Technologies in Texas, where the experiment […]
# MK Party insiders have described the party’s first local government election campaign as a catastrophic mess. Leader Jacob Zuma has not been seen in public since falling ill at a campaign event earlier this month. The party cancelled its Siyathatha rally and physical manifesto launch, fired its eighth secretary general in less than three […]
# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta is urging prospective students to submit their 2027 National Student Financial Aid Scheme funding applications before tomorrow’s deadline. The scheme has already received more than one million applications for next year’s funding cycle. Makaneta has also condemned individuals and fraudulent organisations that exploit students by demanding money in exchange for […]
# Die parlementêre gekose komitee oor Maatskaplike Dienste vra aanspreeklikheid en onmiddellike ingryping om swakhede in die openbare gesondheidstelsel te hanteer. Die Gesondheidsdepartement het die komitee ingelig oor sy jaarverslag. Die departement het sy ongekwalifiseerde ouditmening gehandhaaf en sy teiken bereik om 100-persent van geldige fakture binne 30 dae te betaal. Die komitee se voorsitter, […]
# Die Minister van Landbou, Willie Aucamp, het die aanval op ‘n beesboer op sy plaas tussen Potchefstroom en Ventersdorp in Noordwes skerp veroordeel. Die 50-jarige Donovan Marx veg in die hospitaal om sy lewe nadat hy Woensdagoggend wreed aangeval en gemartel is. Dit is die tweede plaasaanval in die provinsie vandeesmaand, en volg op […]
# ActionSA steun die waarnemende minister van polisie, Firoz Cachalia, se aanbeveling aan die kabinet om KwaZulu-Natal se polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, aan te stel as hoof van die Valke. Stephan Gerber van ActionSA sê die aanbeveling volg op maande van ondersoeke, kommissies, parlementêre komitees en toenemende openbare druk oor misdadige interne elemente se beweerde infiltrasie […]
# Forum for South Africa het die aanbeveling van die waarnemende minister van polisie, Firoz Cachalia, verwelkom dat die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, as die nasionale hoof van die Valke aangestel word. Die eenheid is sedert Junie 2025 sonder ‘n permanente hoof, na die aftrede van Godfrey Lebeya,wat die eenheid jare lank gelei het. […]
# Parliament’s Select Committee on Social Services has called for accountability and immediate interventions to address weaknesses in the public health system. It received a briefing from the Department of Health on its annual report. The department has maintained its unqualified audit opinion and achieved its target of paying 100-percent of valid invoices within 30 […]
# Minister of Agriculture, Willie Aucamp, has strongly condemned the attack on a cattle farmer on his farm between Potchefstroom and Ventersdorp in the North West. Fifty-year-old Donovan Marx is fighting for his life in hospital after he was brutally attacked and tortured on Wednesday morning. This is the second farm attack in the province […]
