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Sexual offences courts have collapsed: Justice Maya

The presidential summit on gender-based violence in Pretoria will continue on Friday with various commissions expected to make inputs on recommendations for ending the scourge of violence against women and children. Activists and victims have been using the two-day event, which ends on Friday, to call on government to consider reviewing certain[…]

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Ramaphosa must sack Gigaba: Legal expert

Malusi Gigaba is accused of lying under oath about the Oppenheimer family’s attempt to open a private airport immigration facility at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport in 2016. Legal expert, Advocate Paul Hoffman, says the only appropriate action that President Cyril Ramaphosa should take is to terminate Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba‘s cabinet[…]

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Presidential summit on gender-based violence to get underway

Civil society groups, in particular gender based violence activists, believe the two day event is an opportunity to come up with stringent laws to punish perpetrators of children and women abuse. Government’s presidential summit on gender-based violence and femicide is scheduled to get underway in Irene, south of Pretoria on[…]

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Last day to file personal tax returns

The SA Revenue Service has said it is equipped to receive up to 150 000 tax returns via eFiling on Wednesday, the last day for individual taxpayers to file their personal income tax returns. The tax agency has said it has sent reminders to taxpayers who still need to file.[…]

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Garden Route fire claims eight lives

Eight people, including children, are confirmed dead in devastating veld and forest fires in Karatara near Knysna in the Southern Cape. Fires also raged in several other areas in the region. At one stage residents in an area of George were evacuated after a mountain fire threatened their homes. Gale[…]

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SABC announces the possibility of mass retrenchments

The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is to proceed with a Section 189 process and says it may retrench close to 1‚000 employees as part of the restructuring‚ which it estimates should result in a cost saving of about R400-million per annum. It also plans to halve the number of[…]

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Attorney killed in shooting outside Cape Town school

A parent has allegedly been shot dead by unknown men outside Reddam House Atlantic Seaboard school in Green Point, Cape Town on Tuesday morning, police have confirmed. “It happened outside the school, on the road. We are on the scene. We will release a statement shortly on the incident,” Sergeant[…]

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