# The Department of Home Affairs’ Refugee Appeals Authority has recorded the biggest reduction in the asylum appeals backlog in years, slashing its historic backlog by 14.2-percent and its active caseload by 12-percent in 2025/2026. The caseload declined from 79-thousand-870 cases at the end of 2024 to 70-thousand-976 at the end of last year. The […]
# Die organisasie, Public Interest SA, het ʼn strafregtelike klag by die Valke ingedien teen die waarnemende nasionale polisiekommissaris, Puleng Dimpane, oor die moontlike oortreding van die Wet op Openbare Finansiële Bestuur. Dit hou verband met die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens se omstrede Medicare24-kontrak van 228-miljoen-rand. Public Interest SA se voorsitter, Tebogo Khaas, sê as die SAPD […]
# Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs portfolio committee chairperson, Zweli Mkhize, says non-compliance with the law cannot be condoned to spare communities from the impact of poor financial management. This comes as the National Treasury has frozen July grant payments to 69 municipalities over financial mismanagement and governance failures. Mkhize says the challenges reflected in […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa is van vandag tot Sondag op ʼn staatsbesoek in Frankryk. Hy sal volgens sy program talle bilaterale vergaderings hou, onder andere met president Emmanuel Macron. Hy sal tydens besoek deelneem aan hoëvlak-gesprekke by UNESCO, met Franse sakelui vergader en die 110de herdenking van die Slag van Delville-bos bywoon. Die Presidensie sê […]
# ‘n Voormalige brigadier-generaal van die Suid-Afrikaanse Lugmag, Portia Anyamba, is tot ses maande tronkstraf in die VSA gevonnis. Sy het skuldig gepleit op ‘n aanklag dat sy as ‘n onverklaarde agent vir Suid-Afrika opgetree het terwyl sy by die hoogs sensitiewe Oak Ridge Nasionale Laboratorium in Tennessee gewerk het. As deel van ‘n pleitooreenkoms […]
# The Public Interest SA has lodged a criminal complaint with the Hawks against acting National Police Commissioner Puleng Dimpane, alleging possible contraventions of the Public Finance Management Act. This is in relation to the controversial 228-million-rand SAPS Medicare24 Tshwane contract. Public Interest SA chairperson, Tebogo Khaas, says that as SAPS Chief Financial Officer at […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa is undertaking an official visit to France from today until Sunday, where he is scheduled to hold several bilateral engagements, including with president Emmanuel Macron. During his visit, he will participate in high-level education discussions at UNESCO, engage French business leaders, and attend the 110th Commemoration of the Battle of Delville […]
# Former South African Air Force Brigadier General, Portia Anyamba, has been sentenced to six months in a US federal prison. This is after she pleaded guilty to acting as an undeclared agent of South Africa while working at the highly sensitive Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. As part of a plea agreement, she also […]
# Rise Mzansi has called for urgent action to speed up the re-vetting and lifestyle audits of senior South African Police Service officials. According to the party, the process has been too slow despite evidence before the Madlanga commission showing criminal networks have infiltrated the police. Rise Mzansi’s Makashule Gana has welcomed the extension of […]
