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President Ramaphosa to announce new cabinet tonight
Following a week of political drama, President Cyril Ramaphosa will finally announce a new national executive this evening.
This was confirmed in a media statement...
Corruption Watch protecting director ‘is hypocrisy’
The Corruption Watch board is accused of protecting and failing to act against its executive director Karam Singh, who has been the subject of...
Gauteng department ordered to pay company R14m
The Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development has been ordered to pay more than R14-million to a private architectural and engineering company for services it...
Nurse was a wolf in sheep’s clothing – Nxumalo’s family
Seated calmly in a chair, Khumbuzile Nxumalo buries her face in her hands and takes a deep sigh before reluctantly talking about the brutal...
Civil servant takes on minister over violation of car trip procedure
The Public Servants Association (PSA) has written to Minister of Defence Thandi Modise demanding the reinstatement of an employee who charges that she was...
‘Call for Orania sovereignty undermines quest for unity’
Racial and cultural sense of belonging remains a concern in democratic South Africa amid growing calls for Orania to be granted more recognition under...
Formal Orania ‘autonomy’ deal with ANC in the next few days...
The FF Plus in Northern Cape is expecting the governing ANC to formally sign on the dotted line a coalition deal that would, among...
MK Party brings big guns to NCOP
The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party is planning to send a team of heavyweights as its new members in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP)...
NFP-IFP fallout ignites old grudges, threatens GPU
The KwaZulu-Natal Government of Provincial Unity (GPU) is hanging by a thread with the parties forming the pact racing against time to save the...
Insults fly over DA as Lungisa calls NEC members ‘careerists’
ANC national executive committee members’ thorny debate over the inclusion of the DA in the government of national unity (GNU) degenerated into an ugly...
DA’s hardball stance throws spanner in the works for Lesufi
Fresh details of why Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi was stopped from announcing his provincial cabinet have emerged in an ANC provincial executive committee (PWC)...
EFF tells ANC again: It’s either us or the DA and...
The EFF has once again extended an olive branch to the ANC as an option to form a new government as the so-called government...
Call for programmes to dispel myths associated with albinism
The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has joined the global community in calling for more efforts to raise awareness of the...
Experts worried as DA set to get economic development ministries
Experts have expressed deep concerns after it emerged that President Cyril Ramaphosa was likely to appoint the DA officials in ministries that have been...
Union wants Gauteng to reinstate Green Army permanently
The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (Giwusa) has come out guns blazing against the ANC government as they demand that the Green...
Union wants Life Healthcare sanctioned over R112m ‘theft’
The Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (Haitu) has criticised Life Healthcare for allegedly depositing R112-million in government funds intended for drug rehabilitation...
NPA declines to go after Fraser over unlawful Zuma medical parole
The Gauteng director of public prosecutions (DPP) has declined to prosecute former State Security Agency (SSA) director-general Arthur Fraser for allegedly defeating the ends...
KZN’s plan to restore eThekwini to former glory finally set in...
The move by the provincial government to take over some administration functions in eThekwini municipality has finally been given the thumbs-up. It is the...
Joburg will enforce double-digit electricity tariff rise starting Monday
City Power has announced that its customers will see electricity tariffs increase by a hefty 12.72% starting Monday.
The price increase is aligned with Eskom's...
Nasi iSpani’s still intact – Lesufi lashes spiteful critics
Claims that the Nasi iSpani programme has been cancelled have been dismissed by Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi. He calls them spiteful, fictitious, and without...
Inquiry hears how illegal mining destroys communities in Limpopo
Residents of Mogalakwena, Lephalale, and Fetakgomo-Tubatse local municipalities in Limpopo are aggrieved over the destruction of their homes and their animals dying due to...
‘State must take responsibility for death of patient’ – union
The Health and Allied Workers Indaba Trade Union (Haitu) has accused the Gauteng department of health of failing to accept full responsibility for the...
Traditional leaders called to intervene as youth alcohol abuse rises
Concerns regarding the high rate of alcohol abuse in South Africa, particularly among youth, is being addressed by the National Department of Social Development....
Chiefs’ Fleurs murder suspect case postponed for further probe
The case of the six suspects arrested in connection with the hijacking and murder of Kaizer Chiefs defender Luke Fleurs has been postponed to...
Ramaphosa mourns as more SANDF soldiers are killed in DRC
President Cyril Ramaphosa is deeply saddened by the deaths of two soldiers and injuries sustained by 20 others in a mortar attack on their...
Graveyard rapist sentenced to eight years in prison
Convicted rapist December Mdakane has been sentenced to eight years of direct imprisonment by the Vrede Regional Court in the Free State for raping...
Hlaudi’s bid to fight paying back SABC R11.5m rages on
Former SABC Chief Operating Ofiicer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has taken his war with the broadcaster and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to the Constitutional Court.
On...
Medics drive old bakkie from London to Cape Town in 3...
Three young medical doctors have concluded their adventure trip driving an old bakkie from London to Cape Town. After traveling in their cherished old...
