# Gauteng MEC of Education Lebogang Maile says 17 schools have now been searched through police-led search and seizure operations, aimed at removing drugs, weapons and other prohibited items from schools. Five schools were searched yesterday: Baleseng Junior Secondary School, Tiyelelani Secondary School, Ngaka Maseko Secondary School, Holy Trinity Secondary School and FR Smangaliso Mkhathwa […]
# The Constitutional Court will today hear the DA’s application for confirmation of the Western Cape High Court order, which declared a section of the Value-Added Tax Act unconstitutional. The section in question allows the Minister of Finance to announce a change to the VAT rate in the budget. This follows last year’s fight over […]
# Minister of Agriculture, Willie Aucamp, has extended the registration deadline for farms and feedlots supplying livestock for slaughter for red meat exports to the United Arab Emirates. Farms and feedlots now have until the 31st of December to ensure they have put the necessary systems in place to comply with the Veterinary Procedural Notice […]
# Die akteur Tim Curry, veral bekend vir sy vertolkings in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue en die TV-minireeks It, is op 80-jarige ouderdom oorlede by sy huis in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. Hy het ook in flieks soos Annie, The Hunt for Red October, Home Alone 2 en Scary Movie 2 verskyn. Curry […]
# Tennis: Die driemalige Grand Slam-kampioen, Stan Wawrinka, is op die nippertjie as promotorskeuse aanvaar in die Amerikaanse Ope se mans-enkelspel-trekking. Die 41-jarige Switser wat die einde van die jaar uittree, het aanvanklik nie daarvoor gekwalifiseer nie. Die Amerikaanse tennisvereniging het kritiek ontvang na die besluit. Die Amerikaanse promotorskeuse, Patrick Kypson, moes egter weens ʼn […]
# Die Verkiesingshof het bevind die GOOD-party het die Wet op Politieke Befondsing oortree wat ʼn onverklaarde veldtog-skenking van 900-duisend-rand betref. Die party het versuim om die skenking, om T-hemde en promosie-items te koop voor die 2021 munisipale verkiesing, te verklaar. Die hof het die party beveel om 50-duisend-rand te betaal vir oortreding van Artikel […]
# Golf: South Africa’s Stals Swart, who is searching for his maiden Sunshine Tour title, leads the Sunbet Challenge Wild Coast by two shots on six under par after the opening round in Port Edward, Eastern Cape. Eight players are tied for second on four under par, including South Africans Rupert Kaminski and Keagan Thomas […]
# Build One South Africa se leier, Mmusi Maimane, sê die party se verkiesingsveldtog is vereenvoudig, professioneel georganiseer en bied kiesers landwyd geloofwaardige kandidate. BOSA gaan in die November-verkiesing met 794 kandidate in 24 munisipaliteite in vyf provinsies deelneem. Die meeste van sy kandidaatlyste is in Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, Kaapstad en Mangaung. Maimane sê BOSA […]
# President Donald Trump sê hy glo nie Iran se opperleier, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is dood nie. Die seun van die voormalige opperleier, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is as Iran se nuwe leier gekies nadat sy pa in Februarie in Amerikaanse aanvalle dood is. Die jonger Khamenei het sedertdien nog nooit in die openbaar verskyn nie. Volgens […]
