The Reserve Bank is set to challenge the public protector’s recommendation that its mandate be adjusted. The bank said in a statement on Tuesday that the ordered remedial action directing parliament to effect a constitutional amendment to the Reserve Bank’s powers had had an immediate and negative impact on the[…]
On Monday, six people involved in the “Town Two” land occupation arrested on Friday appeared in the Khayelitsha Magistrate Court on charges of public violence. The six live as backyarders in Town Two; four of them are women. They were all granted R500 bail on condition that they will not[…]
Last week’s Cape storm and the inferno which hit the Southern Cape have resulted in damages worth an estimated R124m to schools across the province, Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer said on Monday. Extreme weather on June 14 saw 170 schools damaged, while two others were damaged in the[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) is expecting to conduct a competitive bidding process for a new service provider from July, a Parliamentary reply has revealed. In her reply to DA MP Evelyn Wilson, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said a bidding committee has already begun work in finding[…]
Allegations of sexual assault can be pursued at any time and are no longer restricted to 20 years‚ the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg has ruled. Eight alleged victims of the late philanthropist Sidney Frankel‚ who accused him of assaulting them when they were children‚ have won their case[…]
South Africa and the ANC are not in “a good place”, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded. Ramaphosa, who is in the running to be elected to the presidency of the ANC in December, was speaking at the party’s Western Cape policy conference in Stellenbosch yesterday, convened in preparation for[…]
Desperate families have turned to courts to secure autopsies for their loved ones so their bodies can be released for burial, amid a “go slow” strike by Gauteng forensic services members. “I know of three court orders brought by Muslim families who are religiously required to bury within 24 hours[…]
A man and women both aged 23 are expected to appear in the Parow Magistrate’s Court in Cape Town, Western Cape on charges of dealing in drugs. The pair was arrested on Thursday during a sting operation at a house in Oostersee, where police found and seized variety of drugs,[…]
Opposition MPs say South African youth are “worse off” under the ANC‚ whom they accuse of having “sold out” young people to the Gupta family and teachers’ union SADTU. The MPs were speaking in the national assembly during a debate on youth day‚ due to be commemorated on Friday. DA[…]
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has called on the public to snitch on those behind the arson, theft and damage to Metrorail’s trains and cables in Gauteng and the Western Cape, or it may have to start reducing services on high-risk lines. This after two more coaches[…]
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