Digital industry leaders are calling for increased access to the Internet across all sectors of society. Speaking at the IAB Summit19 held at the Johannesburg Theatre, CEO of Project Isizwe, Dudu Mkhwanazi says data has become an essential service for every South African. She says the high data costs in[…]
What do ministers in Cabinet get in terms of salaries and perks? This is the question on everyone’s mind. Africa Check looked at the numbers and has the answer. President Ramaphosa vowed to reduce the size of Cabinet. And he has – by eight people. We currently have 64 members in total,[…]
With the new Cabinet Ministers appointed, President Cyril Ramaphosa will now turn his focus to the State of the Nation Address (SONA 2019), where he will outline the vision and plans for the country. Related: SONA 2019 well delivered: Now it’s time for action, Mr. Ramaphosa When is the second SONA 2019[…]
A lawyer by trade, Ronald Lamola seems like a perfect fit for the Department of Justice in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet. ANC Youth League and Lamola falling out of favour Early in his career Lamola was a rising star in the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League and was deputy president[…]
Good party leader and former Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, says she is “deeply honoured and humbled to have received the call to serve as a minister in South Africa’s new Cabinet” and that it is time South Africans demonstrate their ability to “rise above party political differences”. President[…]
The rays of the “new dawn” didn’t illuminate South Africa’s four biggest opposition parties with much hope after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his Cabinet, with the EFF viewing Pravin Gordhan’s reappointment as a “declaration of war”. DA leader Mmusi Maimane said the appointment of the Cabinet was the first real[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa may have reduced the size of his cabinet by eight ministers, but South Africa’s executive remains much larger than in many other countries. An analysis by Citibank, shows how the South African cabinet stacks up against those in other countries: The closest in size is India, which[…]
Public Protector Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane is also investigating “multiple complaints” against former ministers Bathabile Dlamini and Nomvula Mokonyane, Times Select reported. Mkhwebane has been the subject of much scrutiny from, among others, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who has slammed her as being “unfit for office”, “stunningly incompetent”, “acting unconstitutionally”[…]
Pravin Gordhan seems poised to resume his Cabinet position as public enterprises minister, after filing a review application in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday seeking to set aside a report by the Public Protector which found he violated the Constitution. This, despite an onslaught against Gordhan from[…]
by Marlowe HOOD In 2011, poachers killed some 40,000 tuskers — about ten percent of the continent’s population, according to figures from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), based in Geneva. Last year the kill rate was about four percent, or 15,000 animals, according to new research[…]
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