Pressure is mounting on the higher education department as student leaders plan to begin consultations and mass meetings on Monday to pave a way forward on the issue of student fees. The South African Union of Students (SAUS), which claims to be the largest federation of student governance representation, says[…]
Four years after police shot and killed 34 striking mineworkers at a koppie in Nkaneng informal settlement in Wonderkop near Marikana little has changed. There are still shacks erected on a dry clay soil – a sign of abject poverty. Nkaneng is one of many informal settlements surrounding platinum mines[…]
Any hopes that Jacob Zuma will step down as ANC leader and state president in the wake of the party’s dismal performance in the municipal elections have been quashed. It emerged on Sunday that Zuma had again emerged unscathed after the ANC’s four-day national executive committee meeting at St George’s[…]
The taxi driver urinated on from a nightclub balcony by a former model and UCT student wants the youngster to compensate him financially and issue a public apology. Michelle Pius Nomgcana said he had become a target of mockery in his community “because a white guy urinated on me”, people[…]
The African National Congress (ANC) extended its best wishes to Fidel Castro on his 90th birthday on Saturday. “Comrade Castro is a longstanding supporter and friend of the ANC and the South African people‚ and remains a global icon for his commitment to the internationalism and solidarity of the nations[…]
Chad Le Clos became South Africa’s most decorated Olympic medallist when he ended in a three-way tie for silver alongside Michael Phelps at the Rio Olympics on Friday night. Joseph Schooling of Singapore won his nation’s first-ever gold in a 50.39 Olympic record. Le Clos‚ the world champion in this[…]
Student leaders throughout the country have drawn a line in the sand and dared government and universities to cross it. As discussions over fee increments for 2017 continue, student leaders say they are not prepared to toy with the idea of any increase, whatever the amount. “We have already made[…]
The local government election results should serve as a warning to the African National Congress and its alliance partners to listen, Cosatu said on Friday. “This was a final warning shot to the movement. We must listen, the people they are saying the movement must rid itself of factionalism and[…]
One of three schoolgirls who left London in February 2015 to join ISIS has reportedly died, her family lawyer told Reuters on Thursday. Attorney Tasnime Akunjee said the family of Kadiza Sultana learned of her death in Raqqa, Syria, a few weeks ago. She was believed to have been killed[…]
Members of Durban’s Muslim community have slammed the Southern Sun Elangeni & Maharani hotel management for refusing to allow two Muslim student chefs to continue their internships if they did not remove their beards. Durban-born Mohammed Yusuf, 17, and Huzaifah Mohideen, 23, who were both ecstatic when they landed a[…]
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