With August being Women’s Month, and considering the appalling figures of domestic violence, it is fitting that we highlight the plight of many women in South African society. Every year in August, South Africa celebrates Women’s Month and intensifies campaigns around women’s rights. Yet, despite the consistent focus on the[…]
Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane has promised that a strategy is “being developed” to help combat crime against foreign visitors to South Africa – but the Tourism Minister has had a very tough time of things from the Freedom Front Plus (FF+), who have condemned her reaction to a spate of violent crimes.[…]
In what would mark a year since the month disgraced South African Adam Catzavelos made his racist rant using the k-word while on holiday in Greece, he will make yet another appearance in the Equality Court sitting in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. This for his civil case of[…]
The legal showdown between Busisiwe Mkhwebane and Cyril Ramaphosa finally got underway in court on Thursday. The Public Protector is facing a battle to restore her credibility, and the president looks to go for the jugular in a fight to clear his name – and Pravin Gordhan’s, too. The president completely[…]
With social upliftment being a key element in the development of South African society, projects promoted by non-governmental organisations such as ‘Oasis Reach For Your Dreams’ are essential. The organisation seeks to contribute to holistic social development in communities through various social upliftment programmes and spoke to VOC on their[…]
As the Electoral Commission (IEC) prepares to hold stakeholder engagements on the recently passed bill on Political Party funding, constitutional law expert, Phephelaphi Dube has raised a potential loophole in the new law. Dube says the threshold amount, which allows for donors to donate up to a certain amount of money[…]
Zimbabwe adopted the Zimbabwean dollar, and banned the use of the US dollar and the rand, at the end of June. It caused widespread confusion and cash shortages in the country. We compared prices for everyday household goods in Zimbabwe to what they cost in South Africa. At the end[…]
South Africa is being brought back to the forefront of international tobacco control best practice with the latest publishing of The Control of Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill, up for public comment until August 9, which proposes substantial changes, including a ban on smoking in any enclosed public space.[…]
A dialogue on how to include the Khoi people’s restoration of land comes into focus on Tuesday. Stakeholders include the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Land and Accountability Research Centre. It comes after the Presidential panel on land reform made several recommendations. It includes the interpretation of the Restitution of Land Rights[…]
Having initially slipped under the radar on Saturday, Julius Malema has encountered a small-scale backlash for a jibe he used towards Pravin Gordhan, taunting the minister about his Indian heritage. Pravin Gordhan vs the EFF Malema’s war with Gordhan has been bubbling over for a while now, but it has[…]
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