The DA has laid a complaint with the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) against the country’s largest teacher union claiming it has violated children’s right to education. This comes after the South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) tried to stop the annual national assessments (ANAs) from going ahead this[…]
The number of private security officers has more than tripled that of police officers since 1997, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Wednesday. “The private industry has more boots on the ground than the police and the military combined,” SAIRR CEO Frans Cronje told reporters in[…]
South African Broadcasting Company (SABC) COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng has received a pay increase of almost R1m in the last year, the Democratic Alliance (DA) reported on Wednesday. His salary increased from R2.872m to R3.784m in this financial year, DA MP Gavin Davis said. He said the R912 000 pay rise[…]
The Constitutional Court has dismissed a bid by Legal Aid SA to appeal a High Court judgment that it provide legal aid to miners arrested and injured during the strike at Marikana. The Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) said in a statement on Tuesday that a judgment in the High Court[…]
The case against four City of Cape Town licensing officials, accused of fraud and corruption, has been postponed for further investigation. The council employees appeared briefly in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning. They were appearing for more than 100 cases between them relating to the issuing of[…]
While opposition parties welcomed the inquiry into national police commissioner Riah Phiyega, they questioned why she should be given time to motivate against being suspended. The Democratic Alliance said it was worried Phiyega would “use her powerful position to tamper with the inquiry as the NPA found she had already[…]
Western Cape citizens are being asked to share their 10111 police call centre experiences after a recent oversight visit raised concerns. The province’s standing committee on community safety visited the call centre in Cape Town last month. It found a scanner that is supposed to track the number of calls[…]
National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega has until Monday to motivate why she should not be suspended pending the inquiry into her fitness to hold office. President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday announced that the board of inquiry would be made up of Judge Cornelis Johannes Claassen, who would chair it, and[…]
The Supreme Court of Appeal will hear the State’s appeal against former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s conviction on November 3. A panel of five judges will hear the appeal, the court announced on Tuesday. On September 12 last year, Pistorius was acquitted of murder, but convicted of culpable homicide for shooting[…]
Armed robbers used the cover of a cash-in-transit vehicle to gain entry to the nearby cash depot, Western Cape police confirmed on Tuesday. They hijacked the vehicle in Freedom Way, Montague Gardens around 19:15, said Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut. The gang then drove the vehicle into the depot a few[…]
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