# 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 […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê hy erken onlangse spanning oor buitelanders het Suid-Afrika se verhoudings in Afrika geraak, maar waarsku teen waninligting. Volgens berigte uit Ghana is twee Nigeriërs dood en 15 Ghanese in die hospitaal opgeneem nadat hulle tydens onlangse betogings teen buitelanders aangerand is. Lamola het aan […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê die hervormings in die departement is daarop gemik om verantwoordbaarheid te verbeter, openbare geld te beskerm en voortslepende institusionele mislukkings aan te spreek. Hy het kommer uitgespreek oor die Eiendomsbestuurshandelsentiteit, wat verantwoordelik is vir die bestuur van een van Suid-Afrika se grootste openbare eiendomsportefeuljes. […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile, in his capacity as the South African National AIDS Council chairperson, will address the closing session of the 9th South African Tuberculosis Conference in Boksburg, Gauteng, today. Held under the theme “Vuka, Let’s Unite Towards a TB-Free World!”, the four-day conference reflected on progress made in the fight against TB, […]
