Proposed Governance Regulations for the NHI Fund have been published. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the implementation of the National Health Insurance(NHI) is key to closing the gap between public and private healthcare in the country. In his weekly letter, he highlights stark inequalities in access to quality healthcare, despite progress in the public system. His…
President Cyril Ramaphoda. President Cyril Ramaphosa says the repatriation and reburial of the 63 remains of the Khoi and San people at Kinderlê near Steinkopf in the Northern Cape is a restoration of dignity for those who were exhumed from the country for scientific and exhibition reasons. Those reburied on Monday were unethically exhumed and…
Lilly Mine Families of the three miners who remain trapped underground at Lily Mine in Louisville, near Barberton, Mpumalanga, have expressed disappointment with the government’s lack of action to recover their loved ones’ remains ten years later. Solomon Nyirenda, Pretty Nkambule and Yvonne Mnisi have been stuck in a container since February 5, 2016, which…
File: Graphic of shooting scene Police have launched a manhunt following the fatal shooting of a woman believed to be a lawyer in the Johannesburg CBD earlier on Monday. The 35-year-old woman was shot and killed at the corner of Fox and Joubert Streets. The woman was declared dead on the scene. Preliminary reports indicate…
File: Vaal River North-West University researcher, Professor Wynand Malherbe, has flagged the surging Vaal River pollution as a critical threat to the region’s aquatic biodiversity. Malherbe has been studying the ecological health of the river in the Vredefort Dome area. He says that although animals are still surviving at the river, the abundance of invertebrates and…
Shooting crime scene. Police in Durban have shot and killed four suspects in their suspected hideout in Bellair. The suspects were all wanted for business and house robberies and kidnapping. Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says they were tracking the suspects when they pounced on them in the house, believed to be their hideout. BREAKING NEWS…
Chairperson of the Kwa-Maphumulo Taxi Association, Sphamandla Mhlongo, has told the Nkabinde Enquiry in Pretoria that, like most of his colleagues, he was arrested and tortured by the police. Mhlongo testified that he was taken to the Cato Manor Organised Crime Unit’s offices, where he was repeatedly tortured until he was unconscious as police forced…
Member of Gauteng’s organised crime unit Sergeant Fannie Nkosi has denied that Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s gave him his bank card so he could withdraw cash to pay a bribe to himself and General Shadrack Sibiya. Cat Matlala’s Luxor bank card, which was in Sergeant Nkosi’s possession, has been the subject of his cross-examination at the…
Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala testifying at the at Kgoši Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria. Deputy President Paul Mashatile has denied claims made at the Madlanga Commission that he met with attempted murder accused Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. The claims were made by a member of SAPS Gauteng’s organised crime unit, Sergeant Fannie Nkosi, earlier today before the…
Home Affairs Minister Dr Leon Schreiber says investment in personnel and technology will assist in resolving illegal immigration challenges experienced at the Beitbridge port-of-entry in Musina, Limpopo. Schreiber has conducted an oversight visit, which assessed operational readiness and personnel deployment ahead of the Easter weekend. He was accompanied by the Border Management Authority Commissioner, Dr…
