# Deputy minister in the Presidency, Kenny Morolong, says Cabinet has approved a year-long programme, aimed at celebrating constitutional values, strengthening civic participation and promoting social cohesion. This as South Africa is moving towards the 50th anniversary of Youth Day. Morolong says government will launch the Milestones of Freedom Campaign at the Union Buildings in […]
# Die minister van Hoër Onderwys, Buti Manamela, sê die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid maak vordering met sy ondersoek na korrupsie by die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente. Die minister het die skema verlede maand weens onbestendige bestuur onder administrasie geplaas. Tot op hede het die ondersoekeenheid twee-miljard-rand by die skema teruggekry. Die departement se woordvoerder, Matshepo […]
# Die Departement van Binnelandse Sake sê nie een van die 268 Nigeriese burgers wat gisteraand uit die land gesit is, was wettig in Suid-Afrika nie. Sowat ʼn duisend Nigeriërs het geregistreer om voor teenmigrante-groepe se sperdatum van 30 Junie gerepatrieer te word, en 500 het goedkeuring gekry. Van die 500 was 268 ongedokumenteer. Die […]
# Minister for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Sindisiwe Chikunga, has called on countries to accelerate the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She delivered South Africa’s country statement at the 19th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD, at the United Nations headquarters in New York […]
# Die Nasionale Vergadering se Reëlskomitee het die reëls wat die werk van die Ampsklagkomitee moet lei, teruggestuur om verfyn te word. Komiteelede het bevraagteken of ʼn president slegs vir regstreekse optrede in ʼn staat van beskuldiging geplaas kan word, of ook vir indirekte optrede. Hulle verskil ook oor die kwessie of slegs sekere parlementslede […]
# Minister of Higher Education, Buti Manamela, says the Special Investigating Unit is making progress in its investigation into corruption at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. The minister placed the scheme under administration last month due to governance instability within the institution. To date, the SIU has recovered two-billion-rand from NSFAS. The department’s spokesperson, […]
# The Department of Home Affairs says none of the 268 Nigerian nationals repatriated from South Africa yesterday evening were in the country legally. About one-thousand Nigerians have registered for repatriation ahead of the June 30th deadline set by anti-migrant groups, with 500 being cleared. Of the 500, 268 were undocumented. The department’s Immigration and […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile, in sy hoedanigheid as voorsitter van die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Vigs-raad, sluit vandag die laaste sitting van die negende Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Vigs-konferensie in Boksburg, Gauteng, af. Die vierdaagse konferensie met die tema “Vuka, Let’s Unite Towards a TB-Free World!”, het besin oor vordering in die stryd teen TB, en maatreëls geïdentifiseer om […]
# The National Assembly’s Rules Committee has referred the rules set out to guide the work of the Impeachment Committee back to the Rules Subcommittee for refining. Members of the committee have questioned whether a president can be impeached for direct conduct only or also indirect conduct. They also clashed over whether only certain members […]
