The first ever Global Aviation Gender Summit is to begin in Cape Town on Wednesday. Around 500 top aviation representatives will be discussing equality and gender transformation in the aviation industry for the next three days. South African Airways Pilot, Fatima Jakoet who will be attending the summit says access[…]
Rhodes University law student Khensani Maseko’s funeral will take place in Johannesburg on Thursday, August the 9th which is Women’s Day. Maseko reportedly committed suicide over the weekend after accusing her boyfriend of raping her in May this year. The university’s Vice-Chancellor Sizwe Mabizela has stressed the importance of educating[…]
The violent taxi strike that saw at least three buses set alight in the Western Cape on Monday has been called off. ANC member of provincial parliament Cameron Dugmore told News24 that the strike was called off after the party engaged with the Minibus Taxi Industry Task Team (MTITT) on[…]
South Africa’s largest organised farmers’ body will keep an eye on the ANC’s plans to target 139 farms in test cases for expropriation without compensation and will go to the Constitutional Court if necessary, it says. On Sunday, City Press reported that the ANC had identified 139 farms to be[…]
Former South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani‘s killer Janusz Walus is expected to approach the high court in Pretoria for another attempt to get parole on Tuesday. Walus’ previous court application to be released on parole failed. He and his accomplice and former Conservative Party leader Clive Derby-Lewis were[…]
The Taxi Task Team has condemned the torching of two Golden Arrow buses in Khayelitsha in Cape Town, but has denied that their members were responsible. Some taxi operators embarked on a strike on Monday morning, blaming lack of leadership by South Africa National Taxi Council (Santaco). Several taxi commuters[…]
Outgoing Cape Town Mayor, Patricia De Lille says she has instructed her lawyers to start litigation process against some Democratic Alliance (DA) MPs and councillors who she says defamed her name in public. She was accused of corruption and maladministration in the City of Cape Town. De Lille has now[…]
The Somerset Mall was partially reopened on Monday, following a ceiling collapse over the weekend which left one person injured. Mall spokesperson Wiedaad Adams said Entrance 1 to the Edgars court was still cordoned off, but that the rest of mall would be open as usual from 09:00. A “precautionary[…]
An Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) councillor in the City of Cape Town has told Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee that the Democratic Alliance (DA) run city is currently selling massive amounts of public land for private use. Nosipho Makamba-Botya was one of the participants in the final public hearings in Cape[…]
Two of former president Nelson Mandela’s granddaughters and the Nelson Mandela Library Project have teamed up with metals mine South32 and the Relate Trust to raise R100m for job creation and youth literature. The project is in honour of what would have been Mandela’s one hundredth year. The drive to[…]
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