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SADC battles cash crunch as DRC conflict, Ebola test region’s resilience

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing mounting financial pressure at a time when conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), declining...

Outrage as TVET college hires 10 foreigners ahead of South Africans

The Gert Sibande TVET college in Mpumalanga has been exposed for employing a ten lecturers who are foreign nationals without the consideration of South...

Blow to Fikile Mbalula as ANC loses another high court case

The latest Eastern Cape High Court judgment delivered on Thursday has gone beyond being just a legal defeat to be a devastating political indictment...

Justice Madlanga dangles possibility of ‘killing IDAC altogether’

Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga has raised the startling possibility that the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) could be scrapped altogether, saying the commission's final recommendations...

Long weekend in jail for suspended EMPD deputy chief Mkhwanazi 

Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi will remain in custody over the long weekend. His bail application was postponed to August...

Mpumalanga gets rid of cleaning tenders, opts to insource workers

The Mpumalanga provincial government has approved plans to phase out reliance on outsourced cleaning contracts and instead employ cleaners directly, in a move it...

Phala Phala review case seeks new lawyers after legal team withdraws

A foundation challenging Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka’s findings on the Phala Phala farm matter has launched an urgent appeal for lawyers to take...

Batohi ignored IDAC misconduct reports: Sesoko tells Madlanga

The Madlanga Commission on Thursday heard explosive testimony that repeated internal complaints about alleged misconduct inside the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) reached the...

Madlanga calls for disciplinary action against Lt-Gen Shadrack Sibiya

President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted the second interim report of the Madlanga Commission, confirming that the Section 84 presidential fact-finding body has recommended disciplinary...

The missing link in Gauteng’s fight against unemployment

Every year, Gauteng invests billions of rands in education, training and skills development. Every year, businesses report shortages of critical skills. And every year,...