DA supporters calling for Health MEC’s dismissal The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has accused Social Development MEC Faith Mazibuko of exploiting nurses at the Dr Fabian and Florence Ribeiro Treatment Centre in Cullinan, Pretoria. The party’s Bronwynn Englebrecht says 11 nurses have not been paid their salaries for two months despite the MEC’s repeated…
Belarus’ Aryna Sabalenka in action World number one Aryna Sabalenka weighed into the participation of transgender athletes in women’s sport, saying it would be unfair for women to face “biological men” in professional tennis. The WTA Tour Gender Participation Policy currently permits transgender women to participate if they have declared their gender as female for…
Vaal University of Technology in Vereeniging, Gauteng. Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela has warned that he will not allow the recent exposure of fraudulent qualifications to compromise the 2026 academic year at the Vaal University of Technology in Vereeniging, Gauteng. The higher learning institution is currently at the centre of a major scandal. It involves a syndicate selling fraudulent…
President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President Paul Mashatile chaired the first cabinet meeting under the Government of National Unity (GNU) on July 9, 2024. Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says political parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU) that also govern in local government have agreed to do away with cadre…
Gun and bullets. An eleven-year-old boy has been shot dead, allegedly by a 14-year-old, in Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape. The gun is believed to belong to the older boy’s father. Police spokesperson Welile Matyolo says officers found the younger boy already dead when they arrived at the scene of the shooting. Matyolo says the father of…
Picture shows court gavel The Mpumalanga High Court sitting in Middelburg is expected to sentence a farm owner, his son and six farmworkers on Thursday. They assaulted and killed two men at the Pampoenskraal farm in Mkhondo in Mpumalanga in 2020. The farm owner, Werner Potgieter, his son Cornelius Greyling and the farmworkers forced Sthembiso Thwala, Sifiso Thwala and…
CoGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says consultations are under way with the Electoral Commission on choosing the date for the 2026 local government elections. The current term will expire on the 1st of November 2026. Politicians would become Father Xmas if elections held in Jan:Hlabisa Hlabisa says the elections must therefore be held between 2 November 2026 and 30 January 2027. He says…
A company director has been sentenced by the Kagiso Regional court to six years imprisonment suspended for two years for tax fraud involving three point six million rand. A company director has been sentenced by the Kagiso Regional court to six years imprisonment suspended for two years for tax fraud involving three point six million…
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. The African National Congress (ANC) says it has no plans to replace Dada Morero with Loyiso Masuku as Johannesburg mayor. This follows Masuku’s recent election as the new ANC Greater Johannesburg regional chairperson, defeating the incumbent Morero in an internal party vote. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says being a chairperson of…
Head of IDAC Advocate Andrea Johnson The Advisory Panel tasked with interviewing six candidates vying for the top job of NPA head has revealed that it received 281 public comments on the candidates. Of those 281 comments, 209 were solely dedicated to one of the candidates, current IDAC (Investigating Directorate) Head, Advocate Andrea Johnson. Of the 209…
