South African media are censoring good news stories about the country, says the chief operations officer of the SABC Hlaudi Motsoeneng. Motsoeneng, on the sidelines of a SABC event in Johannesburg on Tuesday that awarded production contracts to local players, was responding to News24’s questions about allegations of censorship at[…]
Pupils from two high schools that engineers have been found to be structurally unsafe are still being taught in the buildings after the governing bodies refused to allow the children and their teachers be moved. Last week, the provincial education ministry announced that reports from engineers had indicated that the[…]
Long-buried incidents by sexual predators who abused children could come out to haunt the perpetrators – years after they committed such offences. An ambitious Constitutional Court application could potentially change the law around indecent and sexual assault, opening the floodgates for victims of child abuse to pursue criminal charges against[…]
The Hawks have once again been forced to deny claims that they were expected to talk to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Monday about his time at the South African Revenue Service. This followed reports that the Hawks were on Monday going to interview Gordhan and some of the officials[…]
South Africa, although strengthening its position by one place to #52, still ranked in the bottom ten of the 61 countries in the World Competitive Rankings released on Monday. Business executives who were asked to list 5 indicators from a list of 15 that they perceived as the key attractiveness factors[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema says the media unfairly project his party as violent, when the ruling ANC should instead take the mantle as a violent political party. Malema was addressing journalists at the party’s national list conference for local government election candidates in Midrand on Monday. Calling out the media,[…]
The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) in the province has accused the Western Cape Education Department of neglecting to carry out proper maintenance work at schools, and allowing the facilities to fall into “ultimate decay”. This comes after two schools, Uitzig Secondary and Beauvallon Secondary, were recently found by structural[…]
Sentencing proceedings in the case against a Lavender Hill woman accused of kidnapping an infant from a maternity ward in 1997 is expected to be highly charged as the State calls Zephany Nurse to the stand on Monday. Monday is the first time in 15 months that Zephany will come[…]
One of the country’s most prestigious private girls’ schools is dealing with allegations that a teacher raped a pupil – one of two sex assault scandals to rock high schools in the Western Cape this week. The 52-year-old teacher was arrested on Thursday and appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court[…]
South Africans who vote for the African National Congress have only themselves to blame if their service delivery needs are not met, Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said on Sunday. The ANC needed to remember there was “a difference between government and retailers”, he told about 1 500 supporters[…]
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