# The 2026 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair is underway in Boksburg. Over three hundred South African learners and 24 international participants from eleven countries are presenting solutions to real-world challenges in robotics, engineering, and data science. Learners can win university bursaries and opportunities to compete at global science fairs. Eskom Expo […]
#The National Youth Unemployment Movement noted Quarterly Employment Statistics showing employed persons fell from 10.43 million in March to 10.42 million in June, a decline of 14-thousand. NYUM’s Lindokuhle Yende says every job lost affects income and livelihood. Yende is concerned that young people face barriers including limited experience, skills mismatches and difficult school-to-work transitions […]
# A new international research project is using uncrewed vessels to study carbon dioxide in the Southern Ocean. The COCO2 project brings together researchers from South Africa, Australia and the United States. Four wind-powered Saildrone vessels will travel more than 22-thousand kilometres each, gathering winter data around Antarctica. Researchers say the Southern Ocean absorbs about […]
COSATU has welcomed assurances from the National Bargaining Council for the Road Freight and Logistics Industry that workers’ money is safe and the various funds under its control remain sustainable. This follows media reports alleging that the council was misrepresenting workers’ sick pay, holiday pay and leave pay funds as its own assets in its […]
# Uitleweringsverrigtinge begin vandag in die Johannesburgse Landdroshof teen die Zimbabwies-Britse voortvlugtige, Ndodana Tshuma. Die Britse owerhede wil die 45-jarige laat teregstaan op aanklagte van die moord op sy vrou, Nothabo, en hul dogters, Natalie en Nala, in Brittanje in Julie. Tshuma het na Suid-Afrika gevlug kort voor die liggame ontdek is en is later […]
# South Africa and France are strengthening economic cooperation, focusing on infrastructure, industrialisation and inclusive growth. Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation minister Maropene Ramokgopa says France is now South Africa’s number-one foreign direct investor. More than 480 French companies operate locally, employing over 65-thousand people. Thirty French companies announced 20.7-billion-rand in investment commitments at this year’s […]
# Action Society sê vroue het nie nodig dat president Cyril Ramaphosa weer die regering se tekortkominge in die stryd teen geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord uitlig nie, maar hy moet hy eerder verduidelik waarom sy regering toegelaat het dat dit voortduur. Ramaphosa het ‘n reeks maatreëls aangekondig, soos ‘n oudit van onopgeloste sake en planne om […]
# The Cape Independence Advocacy Group condemns minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s remark that those who feel South Africa is not good for them should leave, calling it abhorrent and hypocritical. Spokesperson Phil Craig says citizens protesting crime, racial discrimination and chants calling for murder are performing civic duty, not being unpatriotic:
# ActionSA says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s address on gender-based violence was too late and failed to acknowledge the ongoing crisis and weakened criminal justice system leaving women and children vulnerable. The party’s Herman Mashaba says while welcoming the case audit, SAPS detectives are overwhelmed and cannot process cold cases. Mashaba says leaders report police operating […]
