The DA’s election billboard carrying the names of people who died during the Marikana and Life Esidimeni tragedies continues to draw criticism. DA leader Mmusi Maimane unveiled the billboard titled “the ANC is killing us”, in Johannesburg, on Wednesday. The DA says the billboard is about justice and it commemorates the many[…]
South Africa ranked 15th out of 40 countries for its measures to protect children against sexual abuse and exploitation, a new index developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit found. The Economist Intelligence Unit released a report, Out of the Shadows, on child sexual abuse and exploitation this week, based on a[…]
Two small cardboard billboards are the only thing separating three different classes being taught in a large tent in Belhar. The tent is being rented by Matroosbergweg Primary School to accommodate a spillover of learners in at least two grades, GroundUp reports. At a monthly rental fee of R10 000, the[…]
Authorities in Mozambique are still searching for the body of the fourth South African teenager who drowned during a holiday trip to that country. Three bodies have been found and are in a mortuary in Maputo where they are currently being identified by family members. The teenagers, two boys and two girls,[…]
A man was arrested on Friday for the suspected possession of about 111 000 mandrax tablets – which traffic officials happened upon when they stopped to check his trailer licence disc, officials said. The man, aged 33, had been travelling on the N7 in Klawer on Friday morning when Vredendal[…]
More than 600 children are still waiting for a place at Khayelitsha’s Enkanini Primary School, which is already bursting at the seams with the sheer number of children who want to attend it. In fact, demand for a place is so high that a large group of parents and unplaced[…]
The teacher recently chastised for racially segregating grade R pupils at a school in Schweizer-Reneke in the North West did not have a hand in seating the children according to race as the pictured classroom was not hers, according to court papers. In the court papers lodged by trade union[…]
Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer is seeking legal advice on a Western Cape High Court ruling on the opening of Uitzig High School. She says that, as a result of the court’s decision, three teachers will have to teach 100 pupils in five different grades. On Wednesday, Acting Judge[…]
Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson emerged as the absolute kingpin in the Bosasa empire of bribes, intimidation and cold hard cash at the state capture commission of inquiry in Johannesburg. During former Bosasa executive Angelo Agrizzi’s second day of testimony at the commission on Thursday, a video clip was presented as[…]
Voters were initially slow to turn up for what was expected to be a hotly-contested by-election and a barometer for DA support in the City of Cape Town. News24 visited several voting stations in Cape Town’s Ward 31 – which includes parts of Bonteheuwel and Valhalla Park – on Wednesday[…]
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