SAPS Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Lt-General Shadrack Sibiya Lt-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has testified how Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala boasted to a businessman about how Shadrack Sibiya would succeed Lt. General Godfrey Lebeya as the next Hawks Head. Mkhwanazi adds that the telephone call occurred while Matlala was in prison. He has concluded Day 2…
Community health workers, supported by Nehawu, picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya/GroundUp Community health workers picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday where their employment status is being litigated. The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) is seeking to review a bargaining council arbitration award…
FILE| Vusumuzi “Cat” Matlala appears in court. The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Ekurhuleni, on Gauteng’s East Rand, says the City Council never signed off on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) and CAT VIP Security protection. RELATED VIDEO | Madlanga Commission | Senior EMPD officials implicated in criminal activity…
File Image: The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner, Edward Kieswetter addresses a media briefing. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter says South Africans must wait for President Cyril Ramaphosa to take action over allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. The provincial Commissioner has accused Police Minister Senzo Mchunu…
A doctor doing rounds in a hospital ActionSA has criticised the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) for supporting undocumented migrants’ right to public healthcare. This is after the SAHRC raised concerns over recent incidents where undocumented foreign nationals were denied access to healthcare facilities. The Commission says denying undocumented immigrants access to healthcare is…
Reappointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa, Professor Puleng LenkaBula A forum calling itself SaveUnisa is questioning the reappointment of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA), Professor Puleng LenkaBula. She was reappointed for a second term late last year, a year before her first term ended. LenkaBula took the highest office…
A Zimbabwean Exemption Permit. 2 minutes An immigration lawyer says Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders can avoid deportation by following a legal process such as approaching the courts to request an order of extended stay in the country. Friday marks the final deadline for ZEP holders to apply for a waiver or transition to a General Work…
Source: Pexels With this launch, the Department of Employment and Labour, the Compensation Fund (CF), Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), and the Federated Employers Mutual Assurance (FEM) have reaffirmed their commitment to playing a significant role in helping shape healthier and safer working places within the sectors they cover. During the event, key roleplayers including RMA,…
EFF leader Julius Malema at the Nasrec Expo Centre on December 13, 2024. 2 minutes Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, has come out to clarify that he never called for violence, during his delivery of the party’s political report, at the elective conference currently under way in Nasrec, south of Johannesburg. Malema’s utterances…
File image: RDP houses in Gauteng. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the Deeds Registries Amendment Bill, which seeks to enhance deeds registration processes to create ease and uniformity in the deeds registry practices. The office of the Presidency notes that the legislation also provides for modernisation of the deeds system and…
