# The Daily Maverick reports that suspended Independent Development Trust CEO Tebogo Malaka’s benefactor is the Collen Mashawana Foundation and Afribiz Group chair, businessman Collen Mashawana. The foundation allegedly received a 60-million-rand IDT contract to run employment schemes, despite lacking large-scale experience. Records show Mashawana made payments toward Malaka’s luxury property while the IDT transferred […]
# The DA says Gauteng faces a shocking ten-year delay for toxicology reports in unnatural death cases. According to the party, families waiting for answers are stuck in limbo, unable to get justice or bury their loved ones. The backlog affects 140-thousand cases nationwide due to forensic lab failures, despite a 703-million-rand facility remaining unopened […]
# Standing Committee on Appropriations chairperson, Mmusi Maimane has voiced concern over the lack of a clear funding plan for the upcoming national dialogue, aimed at fostering unity and reimagining South Africa’s future. While calling the initiative vital, Maimane warned against diverting resources from key services. The committee has asked National Treasury for clarity on […]
# Cricket: A huge task awaits the Proteas in Darwin today where they have to prevent Australia from winning a tenth consecutive T20 match to salvage the three-match series. The hosts defeated the visitors by 17 runs in Sunday’s first match when Tim David was the main destroyer, smashing 83 runs off just 52 balls. […]
# Krieket: Australië het Suid-Afrika met 17 lopies geklop in die eerste van drie T20s in Darwin vir hulle negende agtereenvolgende oorwinning. Tim David het 83 aangeteken en ‘n sewende paaltjie-vennootskap van 59 met Ben Dwarshuis gedeel. Die gashere is vir 178 uitgeboul. Die 19-jarige Kwena Maphaka het beïndruk vir die Proteas en vier paaltjies […]
# Die Israelse eerste minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, het sy regering se plan om Gazastad oor te neem verdedig en gesê dit is die enigste manier om die oorlog vinnig te beëindig. Die plan het hewige kritiek ontlok van die families van die oorblywende 50 gyselaars in Gaza, van wie 20 vermoedelik nog leef. Netanyahu beweer […]
# Die Presidensie sê die totale koste van die begroting vir die Nasionale Dialoog sal ontwikkel word sodra die struktuur en vorm van die gemeenskapsdialoog afgehandel is. Die aanvanklike koste van 700-miljoen-rand waaroor berig is, is wyd veroordeel. Die Presidensie sê die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika sal die eerste nasionale konvensie aanbied en die infrastruktuur en […]
# Cricket: Australia defeated South Africa by 17 runs in the first of three T20 Internationals in Darwin, extending their unbeaten streak in the format to nine matches. Tim David scored 83 and shared a seventh-wicket stand of 59 with Ben Dwarshuis, as the hosts posted 178. Nineteen-year-old Kwena Maphaka was impressive with the ball […]
# Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his government’s plan to take over Gaza City, saying it’s the only way to end the war speedily. This plan has provoked harsh criticism from the families of the remaining 50 hostages in Gaza, 20 of whom are presumed to be alive. Netanyahu claims that they have […]
