# Musicologist Sheldon Leal says it has been 44 years since the compact disc changed how the world listens to music. Speaking to 702, Leal says that when the compact disc made its debut in 1982, its affordability and durability made it more popular than vinyl and tape, and it was the first time music […]
# The Public Servants Association has obtained a Labour Court interdict against the Registrar of Labour Relations, who gazetted a notice in June of his intention to cancel the union’s registration. The PSA was given 60-days to make representations. Labour registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe says the third-largest public service union failed to submit audited financial statements […]
# Postbank has issued a final appeal to nearly 80-thousand social grant beneficiaries who have yet to migrate from SASSA gold cards to the Postbank’s black cards. The deadline is Monday. Over 1.8-million beneficiaries have already migrated to black cards since the process began last year. Postbank spokesperson Bongani Diako says additional operational measures are […]
# Forum for South Africa vra president Cyril Ramaphosa om die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, te verwyder omdat hy nie daarin slaag om die toenemende misdaad- en geweldsvlakke te verlaag nie. Hy het onlangs verklaar dat misdaad-meesterbreine vanuit magsposisies werk en hulself kan beskerm. FOSA se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, vra waarom die beplanners […]
# Die MK-party Vroueliga veroordeel die voortgesette vervolging, openbare vernedering en skynbare teikening van die voormalige Openbare Beskermer, Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Sy het gister in die Pretoriase Streekhof verskyn in verband met ‘n strafsaak wat voortspruit uit bewerings oor haar hantering van die omstrede Absa/Bankorp-saak tydens haar ampstermyn as Openbare Beskermer. Die MK-vroueliga sê alhoewel die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa gaan vanmiddag vrae in die Nasionale Vergadering beantwoord, onder meer oor die regering se pogings om te keer dat migrasie-verwante kwessies en optrede Suid-Afrika se beeld en stand beskadig. Hy sal die jongste inligting verskaf oor ingryping volgens die Nasionale Waterkrisis-aksieplan, pogings teen onwettige mynbedrywighede, en hoe om munisipaliteite se vermoë […]
# Die minister van Wetenskap, Tegnologie en Innovasie, Blade Nzimande, sê Suid-Afrika kan nie sy ontwikkelings-ambisies bereik as vroue en meisies uitgesluit word van geleenthede in wetenskap, tegnologie en innovasie nie. Daar was vordering wat vroue se deelname aan wetenskap en navorsing betref, met vroue wat 52-persent uitmaak van die akademiese werksmag en 47,7-persent van […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to answer questions in the National Assembly this afternoon, including laying out the government’s efforts to stop migration-related issues and actions from harming South Africa’s image or standing. He will give updates on interventions under the National Water Crisis Action Plan, efforts to combat illegal mining, and restore the […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê Suid-Afrika versnel die lewering van infrastruktuur met 81 strategies geïntegreerde projekte wat uit 263 individuele projekte bestaan. Die projekte se gesamentlike waarde is sowat 1,9-duisend-miljard-rand. Die minister sê die afgelope 18 maande is 37 projekte van ongeveer 69-miljard-rand voltooi, terwyl nog 82 projekte, met […]
