# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Justice and Constitutional Development has called on stakeholders and citizens to comment on the General Family Laws Amendment Bill. The bill seeks to amend several key pieces of legislation, namely, the Divorce Act, the Matrimonial Property Act, and the Mediation in Certain Divorce Matters Act. Committee chairperson Xola Nqola says […]
# Ses volledige beurse ter waarde van vyf-miljoen-rand is op vanjaar se Eskom Ekspo-Internasionale Wetenskapskou toegeken vir studies in wetenskap, tegnologie, ingenieurswese en wiskunde. Die beste jong wetenskaplikes van Suid-Afrika en ander lande soos Lesotho, Namibië, Zimbabwe, Ierland, Indië en Rusland het deelgeneem. Die wenners van die beurse kom van KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo en die Vrystaat. […]
# Between January 2021 and June 2023, Higher Health delivered mental health prevention interventions to over 321-thousand students and provided psycho-social support and counselling to more than 23-thousand students in South Africa. This is according to research by Higher Health South Africa. Rosebank International University College president, Linda Meyer, says a national study conducted across […]
# The Department of Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities has welcomed the South African Human Rights Commission’s findings against controversial media figure Ngizwe Mchunu. Last month, he posted a video of himself online making derogatory remarks after photos of a gay couple getting married in traditional attire went viral. The commission found that Mchunu’s […]
# This year’s Eskom Expo International Science Fair saw the awarding of six full bursaries worth five-million-rand, for studies in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. The fair brought together the brightest young scientists from across South Africa and various countries around the world, including Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ireland, India and Russia. Winners of the full bursaries […]
# Die Suider-Afrikaanse Geloofsgemeenskapsomgewingsinstituut herhaal sy waarskuwing oor Eskom se omstrede plan vir die Koeberg-kernkragsentrale in Kaapstad. Die Nasionale Kernreguleerder sal waarskynlik die 20-jaar verlenging van die bedryfslisensie vir Eenheid 2 goedkeur. Francesca de Gasparis van die instituut sê die kern van die probleem is Eskom se ontleding – ‘n nuwe ingenieursverslag wat die toestand […]
# ‘n Ekonoom, Frederick Mitchell, sê Suid-Afrika ondervind aansienlike ekonomiese uitdagings wat sy bestendigheid en toekomstige voorspoed bedreig. Die ANC het hierdie week sy Ekonomiese Aksieplan onthul, wat die uitbreiding van elektrisiteits-infrastruktuur, die herstel van die chroom- en die mangaanbedryf, die aanvuur van plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling en die uitbreiding van openbare indiensnemings- en vaardigheidsprogramme insluit. […]
# The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute has reiterated its warning over Eskom’s controversial plans regarding the Koeberg Nuclear Power Plant. This as the National Nuclear Regulator is likely to approve the 20-year licence extension for Koeberg’s Unit 2. SAFCEI’s Francesca de Gasparis says at the heart of this controversy lies Eskom’s Time-Limited Ageing […]
# ActionSA sê die professionalisering van plaaslike regering vereis veel meer as grade en burokrasie; dit vereis integriteit, moed en die vertroue van die gemeenskap. Plaaslike regeringsverkiesing word volgende jaar gehou. Funzi Ngobeni van ActionSA sê talle van die mense wat toesig hou oor munisipaliteite wat in duie stort, het lang CV’s, maar hul ervaring […]
