# 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 […]
# The DA has confirmed that lawyers acting for the minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, have approached the party proposing an out-of-court settlement. This is concerning the High Court matter the DA brought to interdict the VAT increase. Meanwhile, Godongwana has released a statement, saying that he has decided to reverse the decision to hike […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het besluit om die BTW-verhoging van 0,5-persentasiepunte terug te trek. Hy sê in ʼn verklaring die besluit volg ná uitgebreide beraadslaging met politieke partye en versigtige oorweging van die parlementêre komitees se aanbevelings. Godongwana sê deur nie BTW te verhoog nie, sal daar op die medium termyn ʼn […]
# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile het erken dat die huidige begrotingsproses nie deursigtig en insluitend genoeg is nie. Hy het ʼn hoëvlak-konferensie oor die 2025-begroting toegespreek wat die Finansiële en Fiskale Kommissie van Suid-Afrika belê het. Mashatile sê in teenstelling met ander regerings in die wêreld wat ineengestort het weens fiskale geskille, het Suid-Afrika die uitdagings […]
