# The Forum for South Africa is calling for urgent government action following a 21-percent increase in calls to the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre in September. Preliminary figures from the Department of Social Development show the centre received six-thousand-782 calls between the first and 16th of September, an average of 424 calls a day, compared […]
# Die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling waarsku gemeenskappe om nie stil te bly oor geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord of dit te ignoreer nie. Die 24-uur Geslagsgeweld-sentrum het tussen 1 en 16 September ʼn aansienlike toename in oproepe aangemeld, naamlik ses-duisend-782 oproepe wat neerkom op gemiddeld 424 per dag. Die departement se woordvoerder, Sandy Godlwana, sê dis […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Employment and Labour has opened public comments on the Employment Services Amendment Bill, taking a critical step in formulating legislation that will reshape the country’s labour migration framework. The proposed legislation seeks to legally regulate the employment of foreign nationals. The bill is also intended to, among other things, update […]
# Die polisie het drie verdagtes, een man en twee vroue, gearresteer in verband met die negende vrou wat verlede week in Ekurhuleni dood aangetref is. Die liggaam van die 28-jarige Gracious Nkomo was in ʼn laken toegedraai toe dit in Dawnpark in Boksburg gevind is. Vyf vroue is in Kemptonpark, twee in Olifantsfontein, een in […]
# The Department of Social Development has urged communities to speak out against gender-based violence and femicide. The 24-hour GBV command centre recorded a significant increase in the number of calls between 1 and 16 September. It received six-thousand-782 calls, averaging 424 calls per day. Spokesperson Sandy Godlwana says this represents a 21-percent increase compared […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê Suid-Afrikaners moet hulself voorberei op die ergste moontlike scenario rondom betrekkinge met Amerika. Die Amerikaanse regering het nuwe visumbeperkings ingestel weens beweerde diskriminerende beleid. Lamola lei dié week die Suid-Afrikaanse afvaardiging na die 81ste sitting van die Verenigde Nasies se Algemene Vergadering in New […]
# Police have arrested three suspects, one man and two women, in connection with the murder of the ninth woman found dead in Ekurhuleni last week. The body of 28-year-old Gracious Nkomo was found wrapped in a sheet in Dawn Park in Boksburg. The series of murders has claimed the lives of five women in Kempton […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says South Africans should prepare for “the worst-case scenario” regarding relations with the United States. Last week, the American government imposed new visa restrictions over what it describes as discriminatory policies. The minister is in the US this week, leading the country’s delegation to the 81st […]
# Build One South Africa vra dat alle regeringskontrakte en verkrygingsrekords waarby Moriel Infrastructure Group betrokke is, onmiddellik bekendgemaak word. Dit volg na ʼn video waarop sy stigter en voorsitter, Lawrence Chamurwa Mudzinganyama, vermoedelik vroue by die Vlamo-restaurant in Sandton met geweld dreig. Die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, het die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Padagentskap se […]
