# Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has proposed that the salary package of National Student Financial Aid Scheme administrator, Hlengani Mathebula, be reconsidered. Mathebula, who was appointed by minister of Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela in May after NSFAS was placed under administration, will earn eleven-million-rand over 24 months. His four technical advisers are […]
# Police arrested 16-thousand-684 suspects for various criminal offences in a week, as part of ongoing efforts to combat and prevent crime through the nationwide Shanela Operation. Two-thousand-547 wanted individuals linked to violent offences, including murder, attempted murder, rape, carjackings, illegal possession of firearms, and house and business robberies, were apprehended. Police spokesperson Vincent Mukhathi […]
# Die vakverbond Saftu veroordeel Amerika se jongste besluit om nuwe handelstariewe teen Suid-Afrika en tientalle ander lande in te stel omdat hulle na bewering nie dwangarbeid keer of doeltreffend bekamp nie. Die Amerikaanse handelsverteenwoordiger het tariewe van 12,5-persent teen Suid-Afrika ingestel. Volgens Saftu se woordvoerder, Asive Dyani, het die land herhaaldelik bewys hy het ‘n […]
# FNB senior economist, Siphamandla Mkhwanazi, says higher borrowing costs, weaker consumer confidence and softer economic conditions are weighing on housing demand, and are likely to restrain market activity through the remainder of the year. The FNB House Price Index slowed further in June, with annual house price growth easing to 5.2-percent year-on-year from 5.7-percent in […]
# Dokters Sonder Grense sê die geweld teen migrante het ʼn mediese humanitêre krisis veroorsaak by die Suid-Afrikaanse grenspos-dorpe, Musina en Beitbrug. Meer as 68-duisend buitelandse burgers in Suid-Afrika is sedert Junie vir repatriasie of deportasie verwerk. Die organisasie se woordvoerder, Caroline Masunda, sê hulle is bekommerd dat toegang tot gesondheidsorg vir mense wat aan […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions has strongly condemned the latest unilateral decision by the US to impose new trade tariffs on South Africa and dozens of other countries, for allegedly failing to prohibit or effectively combat forced labour. The US Trade Representative has imposed tariffs of 12.5-percent on South Africa. Saftu’s Asive […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Suikerrietkwekersvereniging het die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, gevra om die tariefmeganisme vir suiker-invoere te finaliseer om werklikhede in die huidige plaaslike suikermark te weerspieël. Nuwe data toon 94-duisend-984 ton suiker is tussen Januarie en Mei ingevoer teenoor 55-duisend-213 ton in dieselfde tydperk verlede jaar. Die Internasionale Handelsadministrasie-kommissie bepaal […]
# Die MK-party het president Cyril Ramaphosa se “vinnige aanvaarding” van advokaat Andrea Johnson se bedanking as hoof van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie gekritiseer. Die president het haar bedanking aanvaar na aanbevelings deur die minister van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling, Mmamoloko Kubayi, en die Nasionale Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, advokaat Andy Mothibi. Mzwanele Manyi van […]
# Doctors Without Borders says the emergency medical humanitarian response to anti-migrant violence has escalated into a humanitarian crisis at the South Africa-Zimbabwe border towns of Musina and Beitbridge. More than 68-thousand foreign nationals have been processed for repatriation or deportation in South Africa since June. MSF’s Caroline Masunda says they are concerned about access […]
