Tawana Kupe resigns as University of Pretoria vice-chancellor
The University of Pretoria on Tuesday announced the resignation of vice-chancellor professor Tawana Kupe, who had just under a year before his tenure ends in January.... Read more.
‘No preschool for millions of kids in SA’
A total of 1.3 million children aged three to five years do not have access to any form of early learning programme in South Africa.These startling figures were... Read more.
‘Prosecutor training programme not cancelled but under review’- NPA
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has moved in to quell speculation that it has canned its annual training programme for aspirant prosecutors. Following a... Read more.
Bleak news ushers in Youth Month
What a month to be a youth in South Africa. The past few weeks have forced us to look into the state of our future generation with one gloomy report after another... Read more.
Pupils behind a third of murders on school grounds
More than a third of murders committed in institutions of learning in South Africa during the first quarter of this year were perpetrated by pupils, according to... Read more.
Tip-off leads to arrest of woman suspected of human trafficking
A 41-year-old woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with two charges of human trafficking in Klerksdorp, in North West. More charges are expected to... Read more.
Devasted parents identify bodies of pupils killed in Cape Town
They last saw them when they left for school on Tuesday morning and on Wednesday morning devastated parents of five pupils killed in an accident in Mitchells Plain,... Read more.
Accident involving unregistered scholar transport claims five lives
Five pupils were killed and two others sustained injuries when a bakkie transporting them to school was involved in an accident in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town on... Read more.
‘Organs of state fail to use all official languages’
The Cultural, Linguistic and Religious Rights (CRL) Commission has recommended that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) should criminalise government departments... Read more.
Healthy foods getting heavier in the pocket
It was the kind of news that brought me relief this week. And it was not because it was good news. Far from it. In fact, it was bad news, but at least it confirmed... Read more.
