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The Department of Higher Education has assured students and potential employers that qualifications obtained from the four deregistered Educor colleges remain valid and recognised. This will only apply to qualifications issued or obtained during the period of registration and the phase-out period. Four Educor colleges, City Varsity, Damelin, Icesa City Campus and Lyceum will have to shut their doors at the end of next year over non-compliance. Educor is also alleged to […]

Legal expert, Nthabiseng Dubazana, says Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will now have to wait for the inevitable to happen and allow her imminent arrest to take place. Dubazana says Mapisa-Nqakula may have exhausted all legal avenues after the High Court in Pretoria struck off the roll her urgent application to block her arrest. The embattled Parliament Speaker had asked the court to order the prosecution's team to furnish her legal team with […]

Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, says calls for Parliament Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, to resign are premature. The Deputy President was answering DA's Siviwe Gwarube who had questioned him during Q&A session in the National Assembly, on whether the ANC will be supporting its motion against the Speaker. Opposition parties want Mapisa-Nqakula booted as the NA Speaker over her bribery allegations. However, Mashatile believes that's a bit like putting the cart before […]

The Electoral Court has dismissed the ANC's application to have Umkhonto Wesizwe de-registered as a political party. The governing party had taken the Independent Electoral Commission to the court over the matter. The court, however, found that the deputy CEO of the electoral body had acted in compliance with the Electoral Commission Act when registering the party. Political analyst, Justice Malala, has described the ANC's failed IEC bid as an […]

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says a wig that was allegedly given to Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as gratification was recovered at her house during last week's raid. The Speaker of the National Assembly is in hot water over R4.5 million bribery claims. A crime which allegedly occurred during her tenure as the Defence Minister. According to the charge sheet, the Speaker received R2.5 million of the money she had allegedly solicited. […]

A political turmoil is brewing ahead of the much-anticipated general elections, with the country's Parliament Speaker in hot water over corruption claims. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed a motion of no confidence against Parliament Speaker, Nosiviwe Mpaisa-Nqakula. The official opposition says anything less than a removal of the Speaker will be a mockery to Parliament and South Africa. The Head of the National Legislature is embroiled in bribery allegations […]

Political analyst, Levy Ndou, says whether guilty or not, the corruption allegations levelled against the Speaker of Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula are damaging to the image of the ANC and Parliament. Yesterday, Mapisa-Nqakula's Johannesburg home was raided by the NPA's Investigating Directorate as part of their probe dating back to 2017. A former contractor has accused Mapisa-Nqakula of soliciting bribes to the tune of R2.3 million during her tenure as the […]

Community members in Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape, say they are not surprised by the alleged involvement of Laurentia Lombaard in the disappearance of Joslin Smith. The 32-year-old woman appeared in the Vredenburg Magistrates' Court today on charges of human trafficking and kidnapping. Lombaard joins three other accused including Joslin's mother and her boyfriend. A resident, Diego Diedricks, says Lombard's response to Joslin's disappearance was suspicious. "We went to […]

Bongani Ntanzi has placed songstress, Kelly Khumalo, at the centre of Senzo Meyiwa's murder. He says he was paid at least R45 000 for Meyiwa's life. The High Court in Pretoria has heard the contents of the jaw dropping confession of accused number 1 and 2 today. Yesterday, Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng admitted the confessions as evidence after an almost four-month-long trial within a trial. Ntanzi revealed that he was instructed […]