# COPE has condemned minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi’s decision to tamper with the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment legislation. The minister has published a policy direction for public comment, which provides communication licence applicants with a workaround to a rule that requires license holders to be 30-percent owned by historically disadvantaged group. […]
# Die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, het die Silapha-welstandsprogram gestaak. Die program was ʼn driejaar-projek wat kunstenaars en sportlui help om toegang tot hulpbronne te kry. Die diensverskaffer het ʼn tender van meer as 18-miljoen-rand oor drie jaar ontvang en die departement het hom maandeliks sowat 507-duisend-rand betaal. Die departement sê […]
# Build One South Africa het kommer uitgespreek oor die verslapte B-BBEE-lisensievereistes vir satellietdiensmaatskappye wat skielik in die Staatskoerant gepubliseer is. Die voorgestelde beleidsverandering maak dit makliker vir Elon Musk se Starlink om in die land bedryf te word. Dit bied sekere aansoekers ʼn manier om reëls te omseil om ʼn lisensie te kry om […]
# Former president Thabo Mbeki has defended the controversial “Kill the Boer” song, saying it is a symbolic expression rooted in the anti-apartheid struggle. The song was in the spotlight last week, after US president Donald Trump during his meeting with president Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval Office, played a video of EFF leader Julius […]
# Die EFF-leier Julius Malema sê president Donald Trump sal hom nooit intimideer nie. Tydens sy ontmoeting met president Cyril Ramaphosa by die Withuis verlede week, het Trump gevra vir Malema se arrestasie vir die sing van “Kill the Boer“, en die boodskap oor ‘n volksmoord teen blankes bevorder. Malema het gister ondersteuners in die […]
# Die EFF-leier Julius Malema het president Cyril Ramaphosa gekritiseer omdat hy nie die Konstitusionele Hof se uitspraak verdedig het, wat beslis die “Kill the Boer“-liedjie is nie haatspraak nie. Hy het gister ondersteuners in Koppies, Vrystaat, toegespreek. President Donald Trump het verlede week tydens sy Withuis-vergadering met Ramaphosa ‘n video gespeel van Malema wat […]
# Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, has terminated the Silapha Wellness Intervention Programme. The programme was a three-year project offered to artists and sportspeople, intended to assist them in accessing resources. The service provider was awarded a tender of over 18-million-rand for three years, with the department paying around 507-thousand to the […]
# Build One South Africa has expressed concern at the sudden gazetting of relaxed B-BBEE licensing requirements for satellite service companies. The proposed policy direction provides alternatives to pave the way for Elon Musk’s Starlink to operate in the country. It provides applicants with a workaround to rules on who can acquire a licence to […]
# EFF leader Julius Malema says US president Donald Trump will never intimidate him. During his meeting with president Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval Office last week, Trump called for Malema to be arrested for singing “Kill the Boer”, and also continued to push the false narrative of a genocide against whites in the country. […]
