KZN MEC slams church for encouraging followers to stop ARVs

KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane warns that stopping ARVs for faith reasons puts lives at risk and that medication saves lives KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane has called for legal steps to be taken against anyone who is spreading misinformation that people should stop taking anti-retroviral (ARV) medicine to suppress HIV, and to rather rely…

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Calls for accountability over NSFAS dead students’ payments

NSFAS cup and cap Deputy Higher Education Minister Nomusa Dube-Ncube says those behind National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s (NSFAS) funding of over 800 deceased students must be arrested. Dube-Ncube was responding to findings in the Auditor-General’s 2024/25 report that NSFAS made payments to students who according to Home Affairs records were deceased. [LISTEN] ANCY L…

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10 arrested in Free State fraud bust

Odendaalsrus fraud suspects have been arrested for a bank loan scam A multi-police task team has arrested 10 suspects, one woman and nine men, for alleged fraud in Odendaalsrus, in the Free State. This, after a 47-year-old woman applied for a bank loan using fraudulent documents. Spokesperson Palesa Thabana says police were alerted to a…

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