# Women and Men Against Child Abuse het die gewese kleuterskoolonderwyseres, Amber-Lee Hughes, se skuldigbevinding verwelkom nadat sy erken het dat sy in 2023 haar kêrel se vierjarige dogtertjie verdrink het. Die Hooggeregshof in Johannesburg het Hughes skuldig bevind aan moord met voorbedagte rade en verkragting van Nada-Jane Challita. Sy word in Oktober gevonnis. Die […]
# Die Activists and Citizens Forum sê die regering moet ingryp en verbruikers teen Eskom se tariefverhogings beskerm. Eskom en die Nasionale Energiereguleerder van Suid-Afrika het buite die hof geskik en volgens die ooreenkoms sal kragtariewe in 2026/2027 en 2027/2028 elke jaar met 8,8-persent styg. Die forum se woordvoerder, Dennis Bloem, sê hierdie roekelose verhogings […]
# The DA has welcomed Parliament’s House chairperson, Cedric Frolick’s decision to call minister of Higher Education, Buti Manamela, to appear before the Oversight Committee in September. The party’s, Karabo Khakhau, says the minister must account for the growing scandal of new ANC cadre deployments as Sector Education and Training Authorities’ administrators. She says Manamela […]
# The Activists and Citizens Forum is calling on government to step in and protect consumers from Eskom’s tariff increases. Eskom and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa have reached an out-of-court settlement that will further raise tariffs for 2026/2027 and 2027/2028. Tariffs will now increase by 8.8-percent in each year. The forum’s spokesperson, Dennis […]
# Women and Men Against Child Abuse has welcomed the conviction of former preschool teacher Amber-Lee Hughes, who confessed to drowning her boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter in 2023. The High Court in Johannesburg found her guilty of the premeditated murder and rape of Nada-Jane Challita. She will be sentenced in October. WMACA says Hughes should receive […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die land moet deursigtige, betroubare en etiese privaat en openbare instellings bou waar korrupsie nie kan wortel skiet nie. Hy het die sluitingsverslag van die Nasionale Teenkorrupsie-adviesraad ontvang. Die raad is in September 2022 gestig om die instel van Nasionale Teenkorrupsie-strategie te lei en onder meer raad te gee oor […]
# Die nasionale direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Shamila Batohi, sê staatskapingsake sal tyd neem. Skuldigbevindings het wel verbeter, maar die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag se werk word in die skadu gestel deur ‘n gebrek aan skuldigbevindings in staatskapingsake, byna drie jaar nadat die Zondo-kommissie se verslag afgehandel is. Batohi het tydens ‘n paneelbespreking van Daily Maverick gesê […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country needs to build transparent, accountable, and ethical institutions, both public and private, in which corruption is unable to take root. The president received the close-out report of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council yesterday. The council was established in September 2022 to guide the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy […]
# National Director of Public Prosecutions advocate, Shamila Batohi, says the prosecution of state capture-era crimes will take some time. Despite improving crime conviction rates, the work of the National Prosecuting Authority has been dulled by a lack of convictions in state capture cases, almost three years after the Zondo Commission’s report was finalised. Speaking […]
