# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake verwerp die Departement van Tradisionele Sake se teikens om gevaarlike praktyke in onwettige inisiasieskole aan te spreek. Die departement wil teen 2029 inlywingsterftes van 63 tot 13 verminder en onwettige skole van 429 tot 229. Dit sal gedoen word deur beter oorsig en hervormde regulering. Die […]
# Southern African Fraud Prevention Service has seen an increase in fraud listings, victim listings and protective registrations. According to the 2024 Interpol African Cyberthreat Assessment Report, countries identified ransomware and digital extortion as one of the most serious cyber threats faced by the African continent. The organisation’s spokesperson, Elmi Kemp, says one of the […]
# Die Oekraïnse president, Volodymyr Zelensky, het gisteraand op ʼn staatsbesoek in Suid-Afrika aangekom. Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, het hom verwelkom. Dis die eerste staatsbesoek aan Suid-Afrika deur ʼn Oekraïnse president. Zelensky sê hy gaan belangrike vergaderings hou met president Cyril Ramaphosa en verteenwoordigers van politieke, burgerlike en studentegemeenskappe van […]
# Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, will lead a special celebration in honour of Katrina Essau at the Upington Inn in the Northern Cape today. Essau is widely recognised as a living human treasure and a revered figure in the preservation of the N|uu language and Khoi-San cultural heritage. The department’s spokesperson, […]
# The GOOD Party has criticised DA Federal Council chairperson Helen Zille for dismissing the trans-rights movement as a passing social contagion. Zille has come under fire for appearing to support the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. The court ruled that a woman is defined by biological sex under […]
# The Public Servants Association has welcomed the deployment of over 200-thousand assistant teachers, in an attempt to ease educators’ workload and create jobs for young people. Recent research revealed that South Africa has a shortfall of some 46-thousand educators. This is aggravated by the fact that around 18-thousand educators are leaving the profession annually […]
# Die DA het bevestig dat die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, se prokureurs die party genader het om buite die hof te skik. Dit hou verband met die DA se aansoek in die Hooggeregshof om ʼn interdik te kry teen die BTW-verhoging. Godongwana het intussen in ʼn verklaring gesê hy het besluit om die […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has rejected the Department of Traditional Affairs’ targets addressing harmful practices associated with illegal initiation schools. The department plans to reduce initiation deaths from 63 to 13 and illegal schools from 429 to 229 by 2029. This will be done through increased oversight and regulatory reform. Committee […]
# Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, arrived in South Africa on an official visit on Wednesday evening. He was welcomed by minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola. This official visit to the country is the first by a Ukrainian president. Zelensky says he will be having important meetings with president Cyril Ramaphosa and representatives […]
