# Skating: South Africa’s Jasmine Coetzee is setting her sights on the Olympic Games after being crowned Junior Ladies Champion at the 2025 SAFSA National Championships. The 19-year-old who began her journey at the age of five, trains in Kazakhstan under top coaches, including South Africa’s Winter Olympian Dino Quattrocecere. Balancing university and skating, Jasmine’s […]
# Government is calling on South Africans to use this week to recommit to building a child-friendly country. This week is National Child Protection Week under the theme, Working Together in Ending Violence Against Children. Government’s spokesperson, Nokululeko Mtshali, says protecting children from violence, exploitation, and abuse is not only a basic value but also an […]
# Die DA doen ʼn beroep op die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, om Vincent Blennies van Boks Suid-Afrika se raad te verwyder. Hy het onlangs bedank as uitvoerende hoof van die Nasionale Film- en Videostigting ná omstredenheid oor verkwistende uitgawes onder sy leierskap by die Cannes-filmfees. Die DA sê Blennies se […]
# The DA is calling on minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, to remove Vincent Blennies from the board of Boxing South Africa. He recently resigned as the National Film and Video Foundation CEO, following controversy around wasteful expenditure under his leadership at the Cannes Film Festival. The DA says Blennies’ continued presence […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof gaan vandag die EFF se dringende aansoek aanhoor om die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana te keer om die brandstofheffing in te stel. Die minister het verlede maand in sy begrotingstoespraak ‘n 15-sent per liter verhoging vir diesel en 16-sent-per liter vir petrol aangekondig. Die EFF voer aan die verhogingsproses was […]
# ActionSA sê die Onafhanklike Polisieondersoek-direktoraat het 30 dae uitstel gevra vir die party se aansoek volgens die Wet op die Bevordering van Toegang tot Inligting. Die PAIA-aansoek vra die bekendmaking van die OPOD-verslag oor die presidensiële beskermingseenheid se betrokkenheid by die Phala Phala-diefstalsaak in 2020. Die minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, het die verslag […]
# The Western Cape High Court is today set to hear the EFF’s urgent bid to block Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s fuel levy hike. Last month in his budget speech, the minister announced increases of 15-cents per litre for diesel and 16-cents per litre for petrol respectively. In its founding affidavit, the EFF argues that […]
# ActionSA says the Independent Police Investigative Directorate has requested a 30-day extension to the party’s Promotion of Access to Information Act application. The PAIA application is for the unsealing of the IPID report, which investigated the conduct of the Presidential Protection Unit concerning their involvement in the 2020 Phala Phala theft matter. Police minister […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar Phillip Matlhoko van Kimberley gaan sy kuns in China uitstal as deel van die vierde China-Afrika Ekonomiese en Handelsuitstalling wat Donderdag in die Hunan-provinsie begin. Verteenwoordigers van 44 Afrikalande, ses internasionale organisasies en 23 Chinese streke op provinsiale vlak sal na verwagting die uitstalling bywoon. Span Suid-Afrika sluit nog drie lede […]