# Chairperson of the South African Institute of International Affairs, Moeletsi Mbeki, has criticised Team South Africa’s handling of a controversial white genocide question at the White House in the US. Mbeki says they should have rehearsed who would respond. Speaking to SABC News, he further accused US president Donald Trump of attempting to build a […]
# Communications and Digital Technologies minister, Solly Malatsi, has gazetted a policy direction on Equity Equivalent Investment Programmes in the ICT sector. The directive aims to unlock investment, enhance broadband access, and align licensing with the ICT Sector Code. These programmes allow multinationals, like Elon Musk’s Starlink, to meet transformation goals beyond traditional ownership. Public […]
# Die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, sê nuwe forensiese laboratoriums sal in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga en die Vrystaat gebou word. Dit sal help om DNS-toetse te bespoedig en toksikologiese agterstande te verminder. Mchunu het aan die media gesê die nuwe geriewe sal die polisie se vermoë vergroot om bewyse vinniger te verwerk, die […]
# Die Konstitusionele Hof het die voormalige Openbare Beskermer, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, se aansoek van die hand gewys om regstreeks daarheen te appelleer oor die weiering om haar gratifikasie van tien-miljoen-rand uit te betaal. News24 berig Mkhwebane beweer sy het gely as gevolg van die weiering, maar die hof het geen gronde vir ‘n regstreekse appèlaansoek […]
# Die Gautengse Hooggeregshof wat in Benoni sit het twee apartheids-polisiebeamptes se Artikel 174-aansoeke van die hand gewys in die Caiphus Nyoka-moordverhoor. Die aktivis van die studente-organisasie Cosas is in 1987 nege keer geskiet. Leon van den Berg en Abraham Engelbrecht het aangevoer dat die staat geen saak teen hulle het nie, maar die hof […]
# Police minister Senzo Mchunu says new forensic labs will be built in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and the Free State. This will help speed up DNA testing and reduce toxicology backlogs. Mchunu told the media these new facilities will boost the capacity of the South African Police Service to process evidence faster, improve the […]
# Die Veldtog vir Vrye Uitdrukking veroordeel die minister van Sport, Gayton McKenzie, se onlangse opdrag om buitelandse burgers in die Departement van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur te ontslaan. Direkteur Nicole Fritz noem die opmerking ongrondwetlik en skandelik en waarsku dat McKenzie nie die wettige gesag het om sulke optrede af te dwing nie. Sy […]
# The Constitutional Court has dismissed former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s attempt to appeal directly to it over her denied ten-million-rand gratuity. According to News24, Mkhwebane claimed she was suffering due to the delay in payment, but the court found no grounds for direct appeal. Chief Justice Mandisa Maya and the court’s other justices unanimously […]
# The Gauteng High Court sitting in Benoni has dismissed a Section 174 application by two apartheid-era police officers accused of the murder of Caiphus Nyoka. The Congress of South African Students activist was shot nine times in 1987. Leon van den Berg and Abraham Engelbrecht argued the state didn’t present a compelling case, but […]
