# Minister in the Presidency Sindisiwe Chikunga has led a one-kilometre awareness walk in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, amid the launch of the Positive Masculinity Campaign. Under the theme “Real Men and Boys Build, Protect and Transform”, the initiative encourages men and boys to respect women and girls and help prevent gender-based violence and femicide. Mpumalanga Community […]
# Diesel prices could decrease by a substantial amount next month, but the situation for petrol prices is still uncertain. This follows government’s decision to temporarily cut fuel levies. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana on Wednesday announced a cut of three-rand per litre for diesel, and one-rand-50 for petrol. News24 reports the Central Energy Fund’s data […]
# Die voormalige minister van Veiligheid en Sekerheid, Charles Nqakula, sê direkteurs-generaal het rekord gehou van besluite wat geneem is tydens weeklikse veiligheidsvergaderings toe apartheidsera-sake vir moontlike vervolging oorweeg is. Hy het voor die Khampepe-kommissie getuig die agenda is gewoonlik in die vergadering uitgedeel en ministers het oor die algemeen nie notule gehou nie. Nqakula […]
# Trade union Solidarity opposes government’s plan to centralise more than 88-billion-rand in unclaimed money, including pension funds. The National Treasury is working on a framework to help people claim unclaimed funds. The union’s Marius Croucamp says the move could give the state control over money that belongs to private individuals. Croucamp believes private financial […]
# Former Safety and Security minister Charles Nqakula says directors-general kept records of decisions taken at weekly security cluster meetings during the apartheid-era prosecutions period. He told the Khampepe Commission the agenda was usually provided at the meeting, and emphasised ministers generally did not keep minutes. He also explains meeting venues were secured against infiltration […]
# Die Kleinhandel-motorbedryf-organisasie sê Suid-Afrika se strategie vir plaaslike vervaardiging in die motorbedryf moet verder strek as voertuigvervaardiging, en kleinhandel- en onderdele-ondernemings insluit. Uitvoerende hoof Ipeleng Mabusela het op die Suid-Afrikaanse Motorbedryfweek 2026 in Durban gesê die sektor ondersteun meer as 310-duisend werksgeleenthede in meer as 23-duisend ondernemings en dra na raming 202,6-miljard-rand by tot […]
# Die oudminister van Veiligheid en Sekerheid, Charles Nqakula, het voor die Khampepe-kommissie ontken dat hy pogings ondersteun het om vervolgings weens apartheids-gruweldade te staak. Hy sê dis diep beledigend dat beweer word hy of oudpresident Thabo Mbeki het geregtigheid vir Chris Hani en die Cradock Vier-aktivis Fort Calata belemmer. Nqakula onthou steeds die skok […]
# Die maatskaplike sekerheidsagentskap SASSA het ‘n berig van Mail and Guardianverwerp wat ‘n kommunikasiekontrak van 30-miljoen-rand bevraagteken. SASSA sê die kontrak is beplan voor die waarnemende uitvoerende hoof, Themba Matlou, oorgeneem het en was bedoel om openbare kommunikasie oor al nege provinsies te versterk. Die agentskap sê die veldtog het begunstigdes inlig oor die […]
# Former Safety and Security minister Charles Nqakula has rejected allegations he supported efforts to halt prosecutions for apartheid-era atrocities. He testified before the Khampepe Commission. Nqakula describes claims that he or former president Thabo Mbeki’s administration obstructed justice for Chris Hani and Cradock Four activist Fort Calata as deeply insulting. He recalls the shock […]
