# Gauteng MEC of Education Lebogang Maile says 17 schools have now been searched through police-led search and seizure operations, aimed at removing drugs, weapons and other prohibited items from schools. Five schools were searched yesterday: Baleseng Junior Secondary School, Tiyelelani Secondary School, Ngaka Maseko Secondary School, Holy Trinity Secondary School and FR Smangaliso Mkhathwa […]
# The Constitutional Court will today hear the DA’s application for confirmation of the Western Cape High Court order, which declared a section of the Value-Added Tax Act unconstitutional. The section in question allows the Minister of Finance to announce a change to the VAT rate in the budget. This follows last year’s fight over […]
# Golf: South Africa’s Stals Swart, who is searching for his maiden Sunshine Tour title, leads the Sunbet Challenge Wild Coast by two shots on six under par after the opening round in Port Edward, Eastern Cape. Eight players are tied for second on four under par, including South Africans Rupert Kaminski and Keagan Thomas […]
# At least 157 people have died, and more than 300 foreign nationals, including at least four South Africans, are missing after a massive flash flood and mudslide in Nepal. A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border between Nepal and China’s Tibet, triggering the flash flood. In […]
# Electoral Commission chairperson Mosotho Moepya says traditional leaders are vital to creating conditions for free and fair elections. Speaking at the IEC’s meeting with the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa in Gauteng, Moepya says traditional authorities help maintain discipline, respect and order in communities. He says consultations are also important while strengthening […]
# Die voorsitter van die Verkiesingskommissie, Mosotho Moepya, sê tradisionele leiers is noodsaaklik om toestande vir vrye en regverdige verkiesings te skep. Moepya het tydens die OVK se vergadering met die Kongres van Tradisionele Leiers van Suid-Afrika in Gauteng, gesê tradisionele owerhede help om dissipline, respek en orde in gemeenskappe te handhaaf. Hy sê konsultasie […]
# Die leier van Build One South Africa, Mmusi Maimane, het president Cyril Ramaphosa gevra om op te tree teen dié wat verantwoordelik is vir die dood van meer as 100 Suid-Afrikaners weens landwye munisipale infrastruktuurmislukkings. Die voorvalle sluit in die Hammanskraal-cholera-uitbraak en die brand in die Usindiso-gebou. Maimane vra duidelike tydlyne en spesifieke datums […]
# Die ANC se NUK-lid, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, het opmerkings teruggetrek wat sy op die African Renaissance Podcast teen die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, gemaak het. Sy het hom en ANC-sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, beskuldig dat hulle in die party se 2017 en 2022 Nasionale Konferensies stemme gekoop het, maar albei ontken dit. […]
# Build One South Africa leader, Mmusi Maimane, has called on president Cyril Ramaphosa to act against those responsible for the deaths of over 100 South Africans, as a result of municipal infrastructure failures across the country. The incidents include the Hammanskraal cholera outbreak and the Usindiso building fire. Maimane says he is requesting clear […]
