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China has set aside billions of US Dollars to fight the coronavirus that’s currently spreading in the Asian country and to other nations.

Chinese Amba ...View Article

Unions welcome R3.5-billion SAA bailout

2020-02-05 04:35:40

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the South African Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) have welcomed the R3.5 billion bailout for Sou ...View Article

Nothing illegal about rules to remove Chapter Nine heads – Parliament Speaker

2020-02-03 08:32:07

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Thandi Modise, has hit back at Public Protector, Adv. Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying there’s nothing that legally stops Pa ...View Article

Tenders tearing the ANC apart’ - Ramaphosa

2020-02-02 08:02:35

ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has singled out tenders as the biggest source of disunity in the governing party. He blamed tenders for derailing the party’ ...View Article

Ramaphosa promises improved services for Mamusa

2020-02-03 08:33:03

African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, promised better services for residents of the impoverished Mamusa Local Municipality in the North ...View Article

Pay back the money’ - President to ex-councillors

2020-02-02 07:54:40

African National Congress (ANC) councillors who served in the dissolved council of Mamusa Local Municipality will be made to pay back any monies stolen from t ...View Article

Bezuidenhout: Myeni cost SAA over R1bn in Emirates deal

2020-02-01 07:48:39

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mango Airlines, Nico Bezuidenhout, has given damning evidence against former South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson, D ...View Article

More load shedding for SA - Eskom

2020-01-31 07:35:27

South Africans must brace themselves for load shedding, at least for another 18 months. So says Eskom Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Andre De Ruyter, who brie ...View Article

Gauteng government sees red over potholes lawsuits

2020-01-31 05:45:33

Government is losing money as victims of road accidents sue the state over poor road conditions. This is according to Gauteng Public Transp ...View Article

SA on “high alert” for coronavirus

2020-01-31 05:36:49

South Africa is on high alert for the movement of coronavirus, as neighbouring Botswana confirms it’s isolated one person because of suspicions they m ...View Article

Slain police officer was family's

2020-01-31 05:37:20

The family of a Mahikeng police officer who was stabbed to death by a female suspect want the suspect to rot in jail for killing their bread winner.

Con ...View Article

More certificates for Gauteng schools

2020-01-31 08:33:58

Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, wants learners in his province to obtain multiple certificates to end over-reliance on the Grade 12 certificate.

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Dudu Myeni blamed for a failed SAA Emirates deal

2020-02-01 05:22:02

The High Court in Pretoria on Thursday heard how former South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson, Dudu Myeni, scuppered a code sharing deal that could ha ...View Article

Car accident kills 3 Gauteng teachers in a day

2020-01-30 07:15:50

A school losing three teachers, all at once. This is what happened to Riverlea High School in Johannesburg, whose teachers died in a car crash in Evaton in th ...View Article

NWU Mahikeng orders students out

2020-01-31 04:55:05

North West University (NWU) has ordered students to vacate the institution’s Mahikeng campus following violence that took place on Monday. &nbs ...View Article

No need to panic over coronavirus: Mkhize

2020-01-31 05:14:51

South Africa is well prepared to deal with coronavirus, should the disease reach the country.

Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize and his Home Affairs c ...View Article

Cabinet Lekgotla to tackle economic growth

2020-01-29 09:32:49

Cash strapped state-owned enterprises (SOEs), economic growth and land reform are expected to dominate the agenda of the two-day Cabinet Lekgotla underway in ...View Article

Dudu Myeni to take the delinquency fight to SCA

2020-01-29 09:33:22

Former South African Airways (SAA) board chairperson, Dudu Myeni, is taking the fight to declare her a delinquent director to the Supreme Court of Appeal. &nb ...View Article

Ramaphosa: SA ready to chair AU

2020-01-29 09:33:44

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa will prioritise economic integration, women’s empowerment and good governance, when it takes the African Union ( ...View Article

Mkhwebane challenges plans to remove her

2020-01-29 09:34:05

Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, is prepared to seek the court’s intervention to stop what she calls an unlawful process to remove her as head of this ...View Article

Makhura and Lesufi award bursaries to top students

2020-01-29 07:59:47

Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, has encouraged students to take up leadership roles when they get to tertiary institutions.

Makhura was speaking at Wits ...View Article

Maile makes a u-turn on suspending DA councillors

2020-01-28 06:05:34

MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Lebogang Maile, has made an about-turn on his suspension ...View Article

Upset Lesufi wants answers on Germiston teen’s murder

2020-01-28 05:01:44

MEC for Education in Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, has pleaded with the community of Dukathole in Germiston on Johannesburg’s East Rand to give the name of the � ...View Article

SAUS leads mass action at 26 universities

2020-01-29 06:06:25

Registration process was disrupted at several universities across the country as the South African Union of Students (SAUS) led mass protests View Article

Basketball legend Kobe Bryant dies

2020-01-28 05:02:09

United States of America’s basketball legend, Kobe Bryant, has died.

The former National Basketball Association (NBA) player died in a helicopter cras ...View Article

DA takes legal steps over Mathebe and Da Gama’s suspensions

2020-01-25 03:43:32

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has confirmed that it’s submitted an urgent application to the High Court to suspend a decision by Gauteng MEC for Human Settle ...View Article

ANC elated at Maile’s suspension of DA councillors

2020-01-25 02:34:43

The African National Congress (ANC) Caucus in City of Tshwane said it expected nothing less than a suspension for the municipality’s Speaker, Katlego Matheb ...View Article

Church leaders protest a Reverend's murder

2020-01-25 04:53:40

The South African Christian Ministers Council led a protest march outside the Itsoseng Magistrate’s Court in the North West province, where three suspects a ...View Article

Bheki Cele delivers Amabherethe to Diepsloot

2020-01-25 02:35:05

Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, has promised to deploy a special police team to Diepsloot within 24 hours. This after two days of violent protests in the Joha ...View Article

Municipal Demarcation Board launches public participation process

2020-01-25 06:13:17

The Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) has launched its nationwide public participation process on a draft set of electoral wards, in preparation for the ...View Article

Corruption claims at Soshanguve’s child and youth centre

2020-01-25 02:35:38

Soshanguve residents want answers from the Gauteng provincial government about why there has been no resolution to complaints about managerial issues at Fathe ...View Article

Diepsloot burns, one dead after accident

2020-01-24 06:46:08

The protests by residents of Diepsloot in Johannesburg left one person dead on Thursday. A 14-year-old girl was run over by a bus in the afternoon, in a towns ...View Article

North West SCOPA welcome corruption probe updates

2020-01-23 05:58:11

The North West Provincial Legislature’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), has expressed hope that arrests will be made soon on criminal cases t ...View Article

Festive season road fatalities drop by 10%

2020-01-24 06:46:35

South Africa has recorded a 10-percent decrease in road deaths this past festive season. Minister of Transport, Fikile Mbalula, announced these figures, ...View Article

South Africa on the verge of a health crisis

2020-01-23 05:49:43

A nursing union has warned that South Africa is on the verge of a health crisis and that the recent deaths of 10 babies at Tembisa Hospital was just the tip o ...View Article

EFF lends support to Enoch Mpianzi’s family

2020-01-23 08:57:15

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, has challenged Parktown Boys’ High School to take responsibility for the death of its new learner, 13 ...View Article

Lukewarm reception to Mantashe’s new NECSA board

2020-01-23 08:57:47

Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, appointed seven new board members of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (NECSA), just a ...View Article

Ganyesa community disrupts schooling

2020-01-22 05:03:45

Just a week into the new school year, schooling has been disrupted in the villages of Austrey, Moswana and Goodwood in Ganyesa in the North West province.

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