# The DA rejects president Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to appoint Dina Pule as new minister of Social Development, saying her string of scandals includes accusations of funnelling contracts to her boyfriend and misusing government resources. She was minister of Communications from October 2011 until she was fired in July 2013. The DA’s Nazley Sharif says Ramaphosa […]
# The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, in partnership with Business and Arts South Africa, has launched the fourth iteration of the Debut Fund Programme to support emerging creative entrepreneurs. The programme will support 50 emerging creative entrepreneurs aged 18 to 35 from rural and peri-urban communities, taking ideas from concept through to market […]
# Die burgerregte-beweging en kampvegter vir maatskaplike geregtigheid, NotInMyName International, vra die Suider-Afrikaanse Ontwikkelingsgemeenskap om aandag te gee aan wat hy as ʼn migrasie-krisis in die streek beskryf. Themba Masango van die organisasie sê Suid-Afrika kan nie alleen die las van ongeoorloofde immigrasie hanteer nie. Hy sê die SAOG moet ʼn gekoördineerde raamwerk ontwikkel om […]
# The Department of Correctional Services has officially assumed full operational responsibility for the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein in the Free State. It made headlines following the escape of rape and murder convict Thabo Bester in May 2022. It has been renamed the Grootvlei Maximum Correctional Centre, covering the Free State and the Northern […]
# Civil rights and social justice movement, NotInMyName International, is calling on the Southern African Development Community to address what it describes as a regional migration crisis. The organisation’s Themba Masango says South Africa cannot carry the burden of irregular migration alone. He has urged SADC to develop a coordinated framework to strengthen border management […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens het brigadier Rachel Matjeng afgedank. Sy is een van 12 offisiere wat verbind word met die Medicare24-tenderskandaal van 228-miljoen-rand. Matjeng is ná ʼn interne tugproses skuldig bevind aan talle aanklagte van ernstige wangedrag wat verband hou met haar verhouding met die vermeende misdaadbaas, Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala. Polisiewoordvoerder Athlenda Mathe sê korrupsie, misdadigheid en […]
# The South African Police Service has dismissed Brigadier Rachel Matjeng, who is one of 12 officers linked to the 228-million-rand Medicare24 SAPS tender scandal. Her dismissal follows the conclusion of an internal disciplinary process in which Matjeng was found guilty on multiple counts of serious misconduct, arising from her relationship with alleged underworld figure Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ […]
# Die minister in die Presidensie, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, sê die regering is nie bekommerd oor die dreigement van weeklikse betogings teen ongedokumenteerde immigrasie in die land nie. March and March se stigter, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, sê daar gaan vir die volgende ses maande elke week betogings wees om die regering te dwing om aan hul eise […]
# Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, says government is not concerned about the threat of weekly protests against undocumented immigration in the country. March and March founder, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, has vowed to protest every week for the next six months, in an attempt to strong-arm the government into meeting their demands. Ntshavheni says police […]
