While Capetonians have been urged to reduce their water usage to below 87 litres per person daily, three households on average, exceeded 1 000 litres per day. This was revealed by City of Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille on Sunday, who said the properties – two in Pinelands and[…]
A photographer is heading to court, claiming R20-million from government for the unauthorised use of a decades-old photograph he took of late former president Nelson Mandela. Photographer Shaun Earl Harris accuses the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) of copyright infringement saying he has “once again come out to the[…]
The SACP wants those implicated in the Gupta email leaks and Parliamentary hearings to be criminally prosecuted. The party is also calling for the axing of incompetent government ministers. SACP General Secretary, Blade Nzimande, briefed the media on the outcomes of the party’s Central Committee meeting on Sunday. He said[…]
With the help of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a motion of no confidence against City of Johannesburg executive mayor, Herman Mashaba, and council speaker, Vasco da Gama, failed on Thursday night. During Da Gama’s motion, which was heard at around 19:00, there were 140 councillors who voted against the motion[…]
Controversial former ANC MP Makhosi Khoza will on Friday hold the founding conference of her new political party. According to a statement, “The new party is born out of a merger of several political entities and civil society organisations that seek to bring about change to South Africa’s body politic[…]
Young women aged between 15 and 24 still make up the group with the highest number of HIV infections in South Africa, where seven million people have the disease. Friday, December 1 marks World Aids Day and this year it is being observed under the theme “The Right to Health”.[…]
MultiChoice will investigate its total payments to the controversial ANN7 TV channel following media reports of “an irregular relationship” and concerns about corporate governance failures. The chair of the MultiChoice audit and risk committees, Don Eriksson, said in a statement on Friday that the board would investigate and take necessary[…]
National ANC leaders are on Thursday expected in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg‚ where a legal battle between party factions is due to play out. Just before 9am party leaders and ANC supporters from both factions had not arrived at the court but there was a huge contingent of traffic[…]
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday condemned threats against members of parliament inquiring into allegations of state capture at power utility Eskom. “We will not accept that people should be threatened and abused simply because they are doing their job, a job they were elected for,” Ramaphosa told[…]
President Jacob Zuma has until the end of day today to make representations to the National Prosecuting Authority on why corruption charges should not be reinstated against him. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Zuma and the NPA’s bid to appeal a 2016 High Court ruling that a 2009 decision[…]
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