# Miss Universe SA, 29-year-old model, film, and television producer, Melissa Nayimuli, is set to represent South Africa on the world stage at Miss Universe in Thailand next month. Born in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape to a Xhosa mother and a Ugandan father, Nayimuli first entered the Miss South Africa competition in 2020 but did not […]
# Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, says despite false claims circulating, he was provided with overwhelming reasons to dissolve the Market Theatre Foundation Council. The minister says that before the decision to dissolve, each council member gave written input on the concerns related to the functioning of the board. He says highly […]
# Die drukgroep Sakeliga het ʼn voorwaardelike teenaansoek in die Hooggeregshof ingedien in reaksie op die minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, se poging om grondwetlike uitdagings teen die Wet op Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering te stuit. Die minister wil ses sake teen die NGV keer en voer aan staatsbronne moet beskerm word terwyl die prosedurele uitdagings in […]
# Die DA sê die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Leon Schreiber, se aankondiging dat Suid-Afrikaners wat oorsee woon se paspoort per koerier afgelewer sal word, is ʼn groot verbetering. Die paspoort-afleweringsdiens is van 1 November af beskikbaar by die bestaande Binnelandse Sake-dienssentrums in 18 stede wêreldwyd. Ludre Stevens van die DA sê hierdie groot stap […]
# Renewable energy company Seriti Green has welcomed the updated Integrated Resource Plan 2025, saying it’s a great step forward. The IRP envisages some 2.2-trillion-rand of new investment into the energy sector. This will see wind power increase from eight-percent of installed generation capacity to 24-percent by 2039. Coal will remain the chief source of […]
# Die Passasierspooragentskap van Suid-Afrika sê hy het ʼn groot stap geneem in die stryd teen diefstal en vandalisme aan spoorinfrastruktuur, en terselfdertyd pendelaars se veiligheid verbeter. Dit volg nadat 400 beamptes van Prasa se beskermingsdiens gister ingesweer is as vredesbeamptes, wat die getal vredesbeamptes op 686 te staan bring. Prasa-woordvoerder Andiswa Makanda sê die […]
# Die Groep van Vooraanstaande Persone beoordeel en doen tans gehalteversekering van die benoemings vir die beheerkomitee van die nasionale dialoog voordat voorstelle aan president Cyril Ramaphosa voorgelê word. Die eerste nasionale konvensies in Augustus het die mandaat, verantwoordelikhede en samestelling van die komitee goedgekeur. Daar is ook ooreengekom dat elk van die bepaalde sektore […]
# Business lobby group Sakeliga has filed a conditional counter-application to the High Court, in response to Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s bid to halt constitutional challenges to the National Health Insurance Act. The minister wants to halt six constitutional challenges to the NHI Act, citing the need to conserve public resources while the procedural challenges […]
# The DA says Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber’s announcement that passports for South Africans living abroad will now be delivered by courier is a game-changer. The courier delivery of passports will be available from November 1st, and will initially be available at the existing Home Affairs service centres located in 18 cities around the world. […]
