# President Cyril Ramaphosa’s former political adviser and current member of the ANC’s national executive committee, Bejani Chauke, has been served with a Rule 10.6 notice by the Madlanga Commission. He is required to explain his relationship with the late Mpumalanga taxi boss Jotham “King Mswazi” Msibi and their extensive WhatsApp exchanges. Chauke’s name emerged […]
# The leadership of the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture was a no-show in Parliament yesterday. According to the Auditor-General, approximately 41-percent of the department’s entities had the potential to achieve clean audits. However, the department is hamstrung by a lack of consequence management, ineffective monitoring of action plans and slow implementation of recommendations. […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Buti Manamela, moedig voornemende studente, veral dié wat tans in graad 12 is, aan om vir die 2027 akademiese jaar by die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente aansoek te doen vir befondsing. Aansoeke sluit Vrydag. Die departement se woordvoerder, Matshepo Seedat, sê die skema het teen 19 […]
# Union federation COSATU joins its affiliate, the South African Municipal Workers Union, in celebrating its 39th anniversary. SAMWU was officially formed in October 1987, on the principles of non-racialism and forging a single municipal workers’ union. It emerged to be the country’s first national local government union. COSATU’s Nonzuzo Dlamini says SAMWU has championed […]
# Die vakverbond COSATU sê hy verskerp sy verkiesingsveldtog en werwingspogings om beide die ANC en SAKP te ondersteun in aanloop tot die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing. Hy ondersteun albei politieke partye ingevolge ʼn resolusie wat by sy 15de nasionale kongres aanvaar is. COSATU se hoofsekretaris, Zingiswa Losi, sê hulle ondersteuning gaan saam met hoë verwagtings soos werkskepping, […]
# Minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela is urging prospective students, particularly those currently in Grade 12, to apply for the National Student Financial Aid Scheme funding for the 2027 academic year. Applications close on Friday. The department’s spokesperson, Matshepo Seedat, says that so far, NSFAS has recorded more than 868-thousand applications as […]
# Die Departement van Binnelandse Sake gaan tot volgende Woensdag se plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing sy kantore se bedryfsure verleng. Die doel is om alle Suid-Afrikaners geleentheid te gee om aansoek te doen vir ID’s, of hul ID’s of tydelike identiteitsertifikate te kry voor hulle gaan stem. Die departement se woordvoerder, Ndileka Cola, sê landsburgers wat vir ID’s […]
# Union federation COSATU says it is intensifying its election campaign and mobilisation efforts in support of both the ANC and the SACP ahead of the local government elections. It is supporting both political formations at the polls, in line with a resolution adopted at its 15th National Congress. COSATU’s general secretary Zingiswa Losi says […]
# Die Departement van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling het 2,7-miljoen-rand aan regskoste betaal vir die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, wat tans op spesiale verlof is. Die staat betaal ook Mchunu se salaris van drie-miljoen-rand terwyl hy by die huis sit. Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het in ʼn geskrewe antwoord in die […]
