# Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, and Karol G will headline the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio. It will be the first headliner set in the Californian desert for all three artists. Carpenter will take to the stage on Friday with Bieber and Karol G set to […]
# The Public Servants Association says it agrees with minister of Public Service and Administration, Mzamo Buthelezi, that South Africa’s public servants are underpaid, overworked, and demoralised. The country has around 1.7 million public servants. PSA’s Claude Naicker says the recent 5.5-perecnt wage increase for public servants, though above inflation, does not adequately compensate for […]
# Die regering doen ‘n beroep op alle kwalifiserende studente om aansoek vir befondsing van die Nasionale Finansiële Hulpskema vir Studente vir volgende jaar aansoek te doen. Die adjunkminister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nomusa Dube Ncube, het gister die aansoekproses in Pretoria van stapel gestuur. Die regering se woordvoerder, Themba Mazibuko, sê die aansoekproses […]
# Die Stad Kaapstad se Veiligheids- en Sekuriteitsdirektoraat sê hulle het ‘n gesamentlike operasionele sentrum geskep om taxiroetes in Somerset-Wes en omliggende gebiede te monitor. Die Wes-Kaapse regering het verlede week die sluiting van sommige roetes tussen Khayelitsha, Lwandle, Mfuleni en Somerset-Wes vir 30 dae aangekondig. Dit volg na voortdurende spanning tussen taxi-organisasies. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid […]
# ActionSA het die Departement van Verdediging en Militêre Veterane gekritiseer oor reiskoste van meer as 20-miljoen-rand. Minister Angie Motshekga het in ʼn geskrewe antwoord op ʼn vraag in die Parlement ʼn uiteensetting gegee van hoe sy, haar twee adjunkte en ondersteuningspersoneel belastingbetalers se geld op 22 internasionale reise na Rusland, Angola, China, Saoedi-Arabië, Frankryk […]
# Three Conservation Management students from Mandela University’s George Campus were recognised at the recent Southern Africa Wildlife Management Association Conference. Elizabeth Kennedy Overton was awarded the Best PhD Speed Presentation for, Tracking Cheetahs: quantifying hunting success through an age-old tracking method. The Best MSc Full Talk award went to Yasmin Markides for, Modelling functional […]
# ActionSA says it supports the community of Overcome Heights, where mothers chained themselves to the gates of Parliament yesterday. They were protesting over the surge in gang violence on the Cape Flats, calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to act. The party has requested that the president declare a state of emergency on the Cape […]
# Non-governmental organisation, the Whistleblower House, says the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry must ensure the protection of whistleblowers. The commission, tasked with investigating allegations of criminality, political interference, and corruption in South Africa’s justice system, gets underway today. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi will be the first witness to testify. Whistleblower House’s Ben Theron told […]
# Johannesburg Water sê die Alexanderpark-reservoir en die Berea-waterstelsel bly onder druk weens volgehoue groot aanvraag. Die metro staar ʼn waterkrisis in die gesig en onwettige waterverbindings dra grootliks hiertoe by. Johannesburg Water se woordvoerder, Pheladi Ramatshila, sê hulle monitor reservoirs, ook in Alexandra, om die beste verspreidingsvlakke te verseker:
