# The National Student Financial Aid Scheme is overhauling student accommodation to prevent evictions and delays in allowance payments. The overhaul aims to strengthen governance, improve service delivery, and ensure timely payments to landlords. This year, over 112-thousand students received housing, but nearly 38-thousand beds are still pending approval. NSFAS acting CEO Waseem Carrim said […]
# Die leier van ActionSA, Herman Mashaba, sê daar is geen wetenskaplike bewys dat die vraghouer wat met drie mynwerkers van Lily Myn in ‘n mynskag geval het, nie teruggevind kan word nie. Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule en Solomon Nyerende was in 2016 vasgevang in ‘n houer wat by die Lily Myn in Barberton in […]
# Tennis: Die wêreld-nommer-een, Jannik Sinner, het sy poging om twee agtereenvolgende Amerikaanse Ope-titels te wen, afgeskop met ʼn oorwinning teen die Tsjeg, Vit Kopriva. Die Italianer kom volgende teen die Australiër, Alexei Popyrin, te staan wat Emil Ruusuvuori van Finland in skoon stelle geklop het. Alexander Bublik van Kasakstan het die 2014-kampioen, Marin Cilic […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika sê sy administrasie sal die doodstraf vra in moordsake in Washington, DC. Die meeste moorde in Washington word onder plaaslike wetgewing hanteer, maar aanklaers mag die doodstraf vra vir misdade wat onder federale reg val. Trump het in Januarie op die eerste dag van sy administrasie ʼn uitvoerende bevel […]
# Die EFF sê Statistiek Suid-Afrika se jongste opname oor bestuur, openbare veiligheid en justisie bevestig dat landsburgers onder beleg van misdaad is terwyl die regering min verligting bied. Die opname toon daar was in die 2024/2025-boekjaar na raming 1,5-miljoen inbrake by wonings. Altesaam 811-duisend voorvalle van verbruikersbedrog is aangemeld wat 566-duisend slagoffers geraak het. […]
# ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says there is no scientific evidence that the container, which plunged into a collapsed mine shaft with three Lily Mine workers inside, cannot be retrieved. Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule, and Solomon Nyerende were trapped in a container that plunged into a sinkhole at the Lily Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga, in […]
# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner began his bid for back-to-back US Open titles with a 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 victory against Czech Vit Kopriva. The Italian will face Australian Alexei Popyrin next, after he defeated Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland in straight sets. Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik knocked out 2014 champion Croatia’s Marin Cilic. In the women’s […]
# US president Donald Trump says his administration will seek the death penalty in murder cases in Washington, DC. Most murders in Washington are prosecuted under local law, although prosecutors can seek the death penalty for crimes that fall under federal law. Trump reinstated the federal death penalty through an executive order on the first […]
# The EFF says Statistics South Africa’s latest Governance, Public Safety and Justice survey confirms that citizens remain under the siege of crime, while the government offers little relief. The survey indicates that an estimated 1.5-million incidents of housebreaking occurred during the 2024/2025 financial year. A total of 811-thousand consumer fraud incidents were recorded, affecting […]
