The #VodacomShutdown movement is expected to protest outside the mobile giant’s headquarters on Thursday. Consumers are unhappy over Vodacom’s handling of the “Please Call Me” matter. Activists from the Vodacom Shutdown Movement are demanding the mobile operator pay former employee Nkosana Makate for his invention. Angry consumers have taken to[…]
The Democratic Alliance says the South African rail system has “gone to the dogs”. The party held a picket outside the offices of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) in Hatfield, Pretoria on Wednesday. The small throng demanded the immediate improvement of passenger safety for rail commuters in[…]
The final day of initial testimony by former Bosasa boss Angelo Agrizzi was overshadowed by a clip that revealed a racist tirade by the state capture commission of inquiry’s star witness in horrifying detail. Agrizzi was secretly recorded during a meeting at his Fourways home referring to black directors of[…]
The Automobile Association says the price of petrol is likely to increase in February, while the price of diesel is expected to decrease. This is according to the unaudited month-end fuel price data released by the Central Energy Fund. The statement says international oil prices have reached a slightly higher[…]
Deputy Higher Education Minister, Buti Manamela, says infrastructure at some universities is deteriorating due to over-crowding. He visited the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) and Fort Hare University campuses in East London as part of the on-going assessment of admissions, registrations and implementation of improvements at National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in public higher institutions.[…]
Western Cape police have appealed for help as they search for missing 8-year-old girl Jeneva Diergal, who was last seen playing outside a relative’s house in Klawer on the West Coast. She disappeared on January 25 and since then, there has been no sight of the partially paralysed and mentally[…]
A group within the DA is believed to be pushing for the removal of DA leader Mmusi Maimane, depending on the outcome of this year’s elections, City Press reports. It has been reported that if the DA does not grow beyond 22%, Maimane’s detractors will seek to use this as[…]
‘Everyone wants him dead’ and ‘he might not return from Italy’, where he plans to go on holiday after testifying, an expert says. Revelations that whistleblower Angelo Agrizzi’s silence could not be bought and the amount of dirt he was still likely to reveal on more people has heightened his[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute to “dedicated” former National Union of Metalworkers South Africa (Numsa) president Cedric Gina as condolences continued to pour in for him. The trade unionist died on Monday in Addington Hospital in Durban following an illness. Ramaphosa said that he was sad to learn of the death[…]
South Africa ranked 73rd out of 180 countries that participated in a Transparency International (TI) survey – which ranks participating countries according to their perceived levels of corruption in the public sector. TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2018, which gave South Africa a score of 43 – the same score earned in 2017[…]
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