# Activists and Citizens Forum is calling on National Director of Public Prosecutions Advocate Andy Mothibi to immediately withdraw the charges against the suspended National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola. The Forum’s Dennis Bloem says Mothibi told the Madlanga Commission that the charges would be reviewed. Bloem questions the delay, saying Masemola should not continue facing […]
# COPE accuses president Cyril Ramaphosa and the Economic Cluster ministers of abandoning unemployed South Africans, particularly the youth. COPE’s Pakes Dikgetsi says the government’s silence on worsening unemployment reflects political failure and years of poor policy and implementation. The party is calling for an Emergency National Summit on Youth Unemployment, bringing together churches, business […]
# MANCOSA is warning that South Africa’s tertiary education system may not have enough capacity to accommodate growing numbers of qualifying matric learners. MANCOSA’s Director and Chief Academic Officer, Zaheer Hamid, says public institutions are receiving applications that exceed available places, leaving some academically eligible students without opportunities to study. He says accredited private institutions […]
# The FF Plus says an alleged arson incident at the Blood River heritage site in KwaZulu-Natal highlights the importance of mutual recognition between communities. According to the Heritage Foundation, oil was set alight near the site manager’s home, injuring a camper who helped fight the blaze and electrical infrastructure and part of the campsite […]
# The case against three Cape Town police officials accused of torturing barber Juma Igiraneza has been postponed to 21 September at the Wynberg Regional Court. Lieutenant-colonel Delmore Manuel and constables Jermaine Conradie and Leigh-Ann Maroon allegedly assaulted Igiraneza during a raid at his Mowbray workplace on 7 November 2023. The matter could not proceed […]
# Die vakbondfederasie SAFTU sê duisende verlate, vervalle en onbeveiligde myne het doodstrikke, omgewingsgevare en ‘n teelaarde vir georganiseerde misdaadsindikate geword. Veertien onwettige mynwerkers is gister dood in ‘n rotstorting in ‘n myn in Nkaneng naby Rustenburg in Noordwes. Die meeste van hulle was van Lesotho. Asive Dyani van SAFTU sê die tragedie toon opnuut […]
# Die Presidensie het Eskom se voorsitter, Mteto Nyati, tereggewys omdat hy in die openbaar planne bevraagteken het om die kragvoorsiening te herstruktureer. Hy het gewaarsku dat die oordrag van transmissiebates leningsooreenkomste, rekeningkunde en effektehouers kan beïnvloed. Die Presidensie se woordvoerder, Vincent Magwenya, sê die regering is daartoe verbind om te verseker dat Eskom nie […]
# The Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment says the environmental sector is creating thousands of opportunities for young South Africans. More than five-thousand environmental graduates have gained work placements, while over 24-thousand-500 work opportunities were created in the first quarter of 2026/27, with young people accounting for 81-percent. Deputy minister Narend Singh says […]
# Die Grensbestuursowerheid sê die onlangse massa-uitsettings het nie daarin geslaag om buitelanders te ontmoedig om die land weer binne te kom nie. Altesaam 89-duisend-936 mense is teen 7 Augustus uit die land gerepatrieer, teen ‘n koste van byna 293-miljoen-rand. Die owerheid het vier-duisend-229 individue vanaf Zimbabwe, Lesotho en Mosambiek onderskep wat tussen 1 April […]
