Acting police commissioner General Khomotso Phahlane is expected to make a warning statement on Wednesday, in relation to a charge of defeating the ends of justice after being summoned by police watchdog IPID. Following Jackie Selebi, Bheki Cele, and Riah Phiyega, Phahlane is the fourth consecutive top cop to be[…]
Metalworkers union Numsa on Tuesday criticised Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for trying to legislate what it calls “slave wages for blacks and Africans”. The proposed R3 500 minimum wage Ramaphosa announced at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on Sunday is not a living wage, general secretary Irvin[…]
Suspended ANC Western Cape leader Marius Fransman must take responsibility for his actions and not create imaginary scapegoats, the party’s provincial leadership said on Tuesday. ANC acting chairperson Khaya Magaxa told reporters they condemned Fransman’s public utterances against the party and its integrity commission. Fransman had undermined the commission by[…]
President Jacob Zuma will on Monday meet the 101 Veterans of the African National Congress (ANC), who have called on him to resign. The meeting between the party’s National Working Committee and the veterans was postponed from Friday as Zuma was unable to attend. Earlier in November, the veterans spoke[…]
The EFF has slammed the proposed National Minimum wage of R3500 per month, announced by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday, saying that the move favours business at the expense of workers. Ramaphosa announced the findings of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) report. Among them, is a proposal of an[…]
Thousands of child maintenance defaulters are still off the hook despite an amendment of the Maintenance Act last year which would have got them blacklisted. Regulations governing the blacklisting of maintenance defaulters will now not be finalised until next year, the Justice Department said. So far 17,000 cases have been[…]
More than 90 foreign students have cancelled their study plans in South Africa due to the #FeesMustFall protests that have rocked campuses around the country. The 92 were due to study at the University of Cape Town as part of the institution’s Study Abroad programme. They include 10 University of[…]
Illegal power connections continue to endanger lives, electricity parastatal Eskom said on Saturday. “Many people continue to connect electricity illegally, ignoring warnings that electricity is extremely powerful and can be deadly if not treated with care and respect,” Eskom said in a statement. A case in point was a community[…]
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced that early payment for all social grant beneficiaries. The agency says grants payments for December will commence on 28 of November and will end on the 15th of December 2016. SASSA also announced that funds will become available for collection at ATMs[…]
The New Age newspaper, owned by the Gupta family, scored up to R17.1 million in an alleged money-laundering scheme involving Eric Wood, CEO of Gupta-linked financial services advisory group, Trillian. So say emails and documents before the Pretoria High Court by Regiments Capital, a competitor company of which Wood had[…]
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