On Saturday Lizzy Mathiso woke up to find the crèche she owns and runs in Lwandle in shambles. Two classrooms which cater for 54 children were destroyed. She was one of many people living in Cape Town’s informal settlements to have their shacks destroyed or damaged and to find themselves[…]
A race and gender row is rocking the legal fraternity because of a “one size fits all” policy that dictates how many white and black men and women can sit on new provincial watchdog bodies. Elections for the new Legal Practice Council (LPC), which replaced the Law Society of SA[…]
Naspers’ pay-television business MultiChoice Group is planning to lay off more than 2 000 workers in South Africa in a shake-up of its customer care service, the company said on Friday. MultiChoice, which competes with Netflix in online streaming via Showmax, said in a statement it is launching a consultation[…]
Koroneka Trading and Projects Director Babadi Tlatsana has implicated former ministers, Lynne Brown and Dipuo Peters in corruption. Tlatsana concluded her testimony at the State Capture Commission in Johannesburg on Saturday afternoon. In a tape recording, allegedly between SA Express GM Brian Van Wyk and Tlatsana, Tlatsana explains how money[…]
Durban Westville correctional facility has come under ministerial scrutiny after the emergence of two videos showing inmates openly doing drugs and being given weapons by officials, who instigate them to fight. The Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services said on Saturday that the videos were “shocking” and they had launched[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the appointment of three women to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) shows government’s commitment to ongoing transformation on the bench. The president announced the new justices on Friday with three of them being women. The Presidency said this follows recommendations made by the Judicial Service Commission which[…]
A man who was wounded in a shooting in Manenberg, Cape Town, has died. The victim and another person were apparently caught in a gun battle between suspected gangsters and police on Thursday morning. Police and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate were investigating whether the men were shot by officers. Community leader[…]
Two rail-related deaths in Cape Town are under investigation after a man and woman died in separate incidents. Earlier this week, the body of a woman was set alight in a building at the Cape Town Station Deck. On Wednesday, a 45-year-old man died in what’s suspected to be suicide[…]
It’s all over, bar the shouting. Cyril Ramaphosa has delivered his second SONA 2019 speech on Thursday evening, and yes, this really will be the last one for the year. Not much has changed since February, but there may be a prevailing sense of deja vu in South Africa. The[…]
Speaker of National Assembly Thandi Modise says South Africans should do all they can to avoid racial tensions. Her statement came hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his State of the Nation Address (Sona) in Parliament. It also comes after the African National Congress (ANC) postponed its plans to lay criminal charges against[…]
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