# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is taking decisive action to ensure students get funding despite a ten-billion-rand shortfall in university allocations and two-billion-rand gap for TVET colleges. NSFAS board chairperson Karen Stander told the media over 780-thousand students have received funding so far, while measures are underway to streamline appeals, improve student accommodation, […]
# Sakeliga het ‘n aansoek in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria ingedien om die Nasionale Gesondheidsversekeringswet ter syde te stel. Hy voer aan dit kom neer op die nasionalisering van gesondheidsorg en verbied privaat mediese skemas. Sakeliga sluit hom aan by hospitale, mediese skemas en beroepslui in hul teenkanting teen die Wet. Die organisasie waarsku die […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het bevestig die 27ste Interpol Afrika-streekskonferensie sal ‘n Interpol Afrika-komitee stig. Cachalia sê die stap word verwelkom as noodsaaklik vir die bekamping van misdaad. Cachalia sê die komitee is belangrik vir die vestiging van samewerking om Interpol duursaam, volhoubaar en ontvanklik vir Afrika se uitdagings te maak. […]
# Die GOOD-party sê Ian Cameron van die DA se besluit om ‘n vuurwapen te dra tydens ‘n besoek aan Filippi in die Wes-Kaap is uiters ontstellend. Cameron het die vuurwapen gebruik tydens ‘n aanval op sy voertuig verlede week tydens ‘n toesigbesoek. GOOD se sekretaris-generaal, Brett Herron, sê Cameron se optrede simboliseer koloniale era-idees […]
# RISE Mzansi has expressed deep concern over rising taxi violence in the Western Cape, where nine drivers have died and six others were injured in less than a week. RISE Mzansi’s Makashule Gana calls on the police to intensify visible policing, stop-and-search operations to remove illegal guns, auditing of taxi routes and permits and […]
# Sakeliga has filed an application in the Pretoria High Court to overturn the National Health Insurance Act, arguing it effectively nationalises healthcare and bans private medical schemes. Sakeliga joins hospitals, medical schemes, and professionals in opposing the Act. The organisation warns the plan would require a 30-percent income tax hike, risk a fiscal crisis, […]
# The GOOD Party says the DA’s Ian Cameron’s decision to carry a gun during a visit to Philippi in the Western Cape is deeply disturbing. Cameron used the gun when his vehicle came under attack last week during an oversight visit. GOOD secretary-general Brett Herron says Cameron’s actions symbolise colonial-era notions of civilised Whites […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, het tydens die 27ste Interpol Afrika-streekkonferensie in Kaapstad gesê oorgrens-georganiseerde misdaad ondermyn staatsbestuur, wakker korrupsie aan en belemmer ontwikkeling. Cachalia het die belangrikheid van Afrika- en globale samewerking beklemtoon om onwettige finansiële vloei te bestry, Interpol se sentrale buro’s te versterk en inligting-deling te verbeter. Hy het […]
# Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia told the 27th Interpol African Regional Conference in Cape Town that transnational organised crime undermines governance, fuels corruption, and hinders development. Cachalia stressed the importance of African and global collaboration to combat illicit financial flows, strengthen Interpol central bureaus, and improve information sharing. He highlighted the need to build […]
