# The EFF has written to Finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, rejecting the appointment of David Makhura as a non-executive director to the Development Bank of Southern Africa effective from the first of this month. The party says the DBSA occupies a strategic position in South Africa’s developmental state architecture to promote economic development, institutional capacity building, […]
# Former police officer Johan Marais will be sentenced in the Gauteng High Court sitting in Benoni today for the 1987 murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. The prominent East Rand student leader was shot at his home by an apartheid-era police unit. Marais confessed in 2019 and pleaded guilty last year. The sentencing marks […]
# Atletiek: Die dubbele Suid-Afrikaanse Olimpiese kampioen, Caster Semenya, sal vandag uitvind of sy haar testosteroonvlakke sal moet verlaag om as vrou deel te neem. Daar word verwag dat die Europese Hof vir Menseregte ‘n belangrike beslissing gaan lewer na jarelange regsgedinge. Semenya, wat wettig as vrou geïdentifiseer word, het al sedert 2018 geweier om […]
# Die Departement van Landbou het ná agt weke amptelik die verbod op Brasiliaanse meganies-ontbeende vleis en hoender opgehef. Die verbod is ingestel nadat voëlgriep op ‘n plaas in Rio Grande do Sul ontdek is, wat veroorsaak het dat 95-persent van Suid-Afrika se meganies-ontbeende vleisvoorraad afgesny is. Georg Southey van Merlog Foods verwelkom die ooreenkoms […]
# UNAIDS and the South African National AIDS Council are launching the Global AIDS update at the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Johannesburg, today. Titled AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, the report warns that donor funding cuts, especially from the US, threaten decades of progress. It highlights that nearly 40-million people are living with […]
# The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has revealed that it imposed fines totalling nearly 120-million-rand in the past financial year. This is a decline from the previous year, attributed to the absence of a large-scale fraud case like Steinhoff. The FSCA highlighted ongoing efforts to strengthen market integrity and protect consumers within South Africa’s financial […]
# The DA says the handover of the investigation report into the naval tragedy in Kommetjie, Cape Town, to the Hawks to investigate culpable homicide charges is long overdue, but an essential first step toward justice. Lieutenant-commander Gillian Hector, master warrant-officer William Mathipa and warrant-officer Mokwapa Mojela were killed in the submarine tragedy in September 2023. […]
# AfriForum says it is disappointed that the Department of Basic Education has temporarily halted the rollout of Coding and Robotics as a compulsory subject. According to the department, the process is being put on hold as it first has to focus on improving literacy and numeracy in the early grades. AfriForum’s Alana Bailey says […]
# Die Do More-stigting het sy Mandeladag-veldtog vir vanjaar van stapel gestuur. Dit fokus op die bou van veilige, skaduryke speelterreine, toegang tot skoon water, sonkrag-aangedrewe gereedskap en klimaatopvoeding. Vrywilligers en borge kan help om klimaatveerkragtige speelpakkette te skep en infrastruktuurverbeterings te ondersteun. Die veldtog is ook daarop gemik om jong kinders en gemeenskappe te […]
