Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille says the Democratic Alliance does not have sufficient reason to remove her. The DA’s federal executive announced on Thursday that De Lille would be suspended from party activities – pending investigations – and that it had asked her to give reasons why she should[…]
Outgoing ANC treasurer general Zweli Mkhize turned down nomination for the position of party deputy president after striking a deal with Mpumalanga premier David Mabuza‚ sources said. Mkhize stunned ANC conference delegates when he took to the podium in Nasrec on Sunday night to withdraw his candidature at the eleventh[…]
Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) head Robert McBride is expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday for allegedly assaulting his daughter. McBride has been charged with child abuse, and an alternative charge of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, after he allegedly assaulted one of[…]
Johannesburg – President Jacob Zuma has announced that government will subsidise free higher education for poor and working class students. He said in a statement on Saturday that the definition of poor and working class students will now refer to “currently enrolled TVET Colleges or university students from South African[…]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille, who has come under fire recently with staffers making damaging claims against her, has been given until Monday to respond to several allegations she faces. In September, it emerged that a subcommittee, headed by parliamentary whip John Steenhuisen, was established by the DA’s federal[…]
Retail group Steinhoff, which is fighting for survival following its disclosure of accounting irregularities, said on Thursday that tycoon and major shareholder Christo Wiese had stepped down as chairman. Steinhoff said in a statement that Wiese had offered to resign to reinforce independent governance of the company and that the[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema has put his head on the block about who will win the ANC’s hotly contested leadership race this weekend. Malema suggested on Thursday that Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa would be the ruling party’s next president. The ANC is meeting from Saturday to Wednesday to decide its[…]
A Cape Town man was recently sentenced to 23 years behind bars for the murder of his 72-year-old father, Western Cape police said on Thursday. Jonathan Schapira, 31, was handed the sentence in the Western Cape High Court after being found guilty of planning his father, Stanley’s, death. Police were[…]
The investigating officer who obtained warrants of arrest for The President’s Keepers author Jacques Pauw and News24 investigative journalist Pieter-Louis Myburgh – and the magistrate who signed off on them – are now under investigation for possible misconduct. This was ordered by Durban magistrate Irfaan Khallil, who presided over an[…]
University tuition fees for 2018 will be increased by eight percent in line with inflation. In a statement on Thursday, Universities SA (USAf) said the issue of free tertiary education has yet to be settled, as the country waits for an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Higher education to process the[…]
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