Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has welcomed the progress made so far in preparation for the upcoming G20 meeting to be held in South Africa later this year. Addressing the media on the Cabinet meeting outcomes, Ntshavheni says approximately 80 of the 132 planned official meetings on the G20…
Graphic of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his United States (US) counterpart Donald Trump. President Cyril Ramaphosa and his US counterpart Donald Trump have spoken telephonically. Their conversation which happened yesterday comes ahead of the implementation of the US-imposed 30% tariff on South African imported goods. The tariff is due to be implemented in less than…
FILE | KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka addresses an event. School nutrition service providers in KwaZulu-Natal are calling on Premier Thami Ntuli to act speedily against Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka. There are claims that Hlomuka manipulated the bidding process of the school nutrition programme with the aim to benefit a company linked to his relatives….
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni briefs the media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting. Live stream:
Container ships seen at Durban Harbour Some members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition have called on government officials to continue their tariff talks with their US counterparts. The aim of the talks is to mitigate the impact of the 30 percent tariff that the US has imposed on South African imported…
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula It’s not yet clear whether South Africa and the US have reached a deal on tariffs. This follows US President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 30% tariff on imported South African products with effect from today if a deal is not reached. South Africa faces the highest rate in sub-Saharan Africa….
MK Party flag. The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is calling on the government to cease its participation in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. The party is of the view that the group has done nothing to deconstruct colonial legacies; instead, it exists to aid the British Crown’s global influence. Currently, South Africa is a member of…
Anti-apartheid activist, Rev. Allan Boesak Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, hosted a powerful commemorative event marking the 35th anniversary of the 1990 Northern Areas Uprising. Delivering a keynote address, Reverend Allan Boesak rejected the term “uprising,” insisting it should be called what it truly was – a massacre. He condemned the killing of…
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has heard that the families and survivors of apartheid-era gross human rights violations cannot be expected to put their case on hold pending the outcome of the Commission of Inquiry tasked with probing whether there was any political interference in the prosecution of TRC cases. This comes after President…
A hitman and three officials of the Alfred Duma Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the municipality’s civil engineer. Oscar Hlatshwayo was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Ladysmith in 2019. Hlatshwayo was at the time of his murder an Executive Director in the Engineering and Infrastructure…
