By Aneeqa du Plessis The South African Hajj and Umrah Council (SAHUC) has announced the election of a new president, Hafith Moaaz Casoo, this comes after the body held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Durban at the weekend. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Monday morning, Casoo expressed his[…]
Energy analyst Chris Yelland says there is a lot of pressure on the newly appointed Electricity Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, as he is expected to focus on solving the power crisis at Eskom. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Ramokgopa as South Africa’s new Electricity Minister during his Cabinet reshuffle at the Union[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised thousands of police service trainees for completing their programme, saying they now have a duty to serve and protect the people of South Africa. 10 000 new police trainees are graduating as constables from today. The trainees, from various academies, completed their Basic Police Development[…]
LOCAL The Jacob Zuma Foundation has criticised the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling that the former president must go back to jail. The SCA on Monday dismissed with costs Zuma’s appeal against the setting aside of his medical parole by the Pretoria high court. The court ruled the decision[…]
The Lebanese Parliament, on Thursday, failed for the third time to elect a new president, bringing the country closer to a political vacuum. Out of the Parliament’s 128 parliamentarians, 119 attended the plenary session for half an hour on Thursday. Election rules require a quorum of two-thirds of members of[…]
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to mend the seemingly severed ties between the ruling party and its alliance partner Cosatu. He said the alliance, which includes the SACP, was too big to fail as it had been built on the blood of those who had come before them. Cracks[…]
LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers remarks at the official Opening of the Sandvik Khomanani Facility in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni. The Presidency says President Cyril Ramaphosa wants urgent solutions to South Africa’s protracted electricity crisis. Reports say some major announcements related to the crisis are expected to be made in the[…]
LOCAL The Presidency has been given 72 hours in which to assess and address the concerns of unemployed social workers. Scores of them marched to the Presidency at the Union Buildings demanding jobs and R7 000 monthly stipend, while still searching for jobs. They say some of them graduated more[…]
The Presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will make an announcement in a matter of days on the government’s emergency plans to address the country’s increasing rolling blackouts. In his recent weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa acknowledged that the government needed to act boldly in addressing the country’s energy crisis. He admitted[…]
Head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, yesterday discussed the situation in the occupied territories with UN Secretary-General’s Middle East Envoy, Tor Wennesland, Hamas said in a statement on its website. During a call, Haniyeh briefed Wennesland on “the recent Israeli practices in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip[…]
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