# Eco-justice group the Green Connection has urged Parliament to withdraw the proposed Gas Bill, warning it could lock South Africa deeper into oil and gas dependence while weakening oversight. The legislation, once promulgated, would replace the Gas Act, with a new framework covering areas including liquefied natural gas, gas infrastructure, investment, licensing and enforcement. […]
# Union federation Cosatu is concerned about the rise of far-right vigilante, racial and tribal groupings that pose a serious threat to South Africa’s hard-won non-racial democracy. AfriForum and the March and March movement announced a collaborative working group to cooperate on community safety, legal issues, education, and anti-crime initiatives. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says this strange […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over the ongoing crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. Last week, the High Court in Pretoria suspended the appointment of professor Hlengani Mathebula as administrator and restored the scheme’s remaining board members. This comes after minister Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela dissolved the board and […]
# Die GOOD-party sê AfriForum en die MK-party het niks behalwe ʼn voorkeur vir litigasie oor regeringsbeleide in gemeen gehad nie, tot die teen-immigrantegroep, March and March, met albei vriende gemaak het. AfriForum en March and March het ooreengekom om saam te werk wat regskwessies betref, ten spyte van aansienlike verskille tussen die twee drukgroepe. […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof hoor vandag ʼn dringende aansoek van die MK-party en die United Africans Transformation aan om te appelleer teen die tussentydse interdik dat die parlementêre Ampsklagkomitee sy verhore staak. Dit volg nadat die Konstitusionele Hof ʼn vroeëre appèl van die African Transformation Movement en ander partye verwerp het. Die interdik is hangende […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê groter aanspreeklikheid moet deel wees van ‘n uitgebreide poging om sterftes in bouwerk te verminder. Daarby is beter munisipale wette en professionele toesig nodig en die reguleerders moet inligting deel. Hy het inligting bekend gemaak oor vier bou-insidente in Redcliffe in Verulam, Doornkop in […]
# The GOOD Party says AfriForum and the MK Party had nothing in common besides a taste for litigation to vent their disdain for the policies of government, before the anti-immigrant organisation March and March befriended both. AfriForum and March and March have agreed to work together on legal issues, despite significant differences between the […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 21 August 2026: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports South Africa’s drug manufacturers have reached an agreement with the Department of Health under which private drug pricing rules will be reviewed. This follows the loss of about one-thousand-five-hundred jobs in the drug industry. # Mail & Guardian: Writes about […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 21 Augustus 2026: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig Suid-Afrika se medisynevervaardigers het ‘n ooreenkoms met die Departement van Gesondheid bereik waarvolgens privaat medisyneprysreëls hersien sal word. Dit volg na die verlies van sowat een-duisend-500 werksgeleenthede in die medisynebedryf. # Mail & Guardian: Skryf oor oudpresident Jacob Zuma […]
