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A self-employed mother from Winterveld, in Pretoria, is appealing for help as she fears her son might end up either doing drugs or on the wrong side of the law following an arrest over a charge she rejects as false. Monica Maseko and her son, Siphesihle, were arrested in March last year and charged with common assault. They are accused of beating up a neighbour's son, Keorapetse Monnakgotla (27), who […]
There's been mixed reactions to the passing of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. The NHI, which was first introduced in 2015 by the Portfolio Committee on Health, finally got the nod from the National Assembly yesterday. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has welcomed the lawmakers' move. The labour federation is among the interested parties who have supported the bill, which seeks to accelerate unified access to […]
Political analyst, Dr Sam Koma, says Ace Magashule's expulsion from the ANC is a precedent-setting moment in the history of the governing party. Koma says the former ANC Secretary General is the first former member of the ANC top 6 to have faced a disciplinary process that resulted in him being kicked out of the party. Yesterday, the ANC announced the decision after Magashule missed his Friday deadline to submit […]
Political and human rights activist, Professor Mary De Haas, says the government lacks political will to deal with organised crime in the country. Her remarks follow this weekend's gun violence that rocked parts of the country. In one case, 15 people were shot and injured in a tavern in Soshanguve by unknown gunmen who budged into the establishment and opened fire. In Khayelitsha, four people lost their lives in separate […]
The Department of Health in Free State has refuted suggestions by Gift of the Givers that it is under reporting on the cholera outbreak cases in that province. This after the organisation raised concern, saying that its teams in the Free State received information that the number of people who have died in the province could be up to 10 deaths over the last few days. On Wednesday, the NGO […]
The leader of Al Jama-ah, Ganief Hendricks, has come out guns blazing in defense of the party's national spokesperson's homophobic comments. This after the DA called on the Minority party's leaders to clarify whether they endorse Advocate Shameemah Salie's comments in which she called into question the inclusion of LGBTIQ+ groups in the parliamentary process on new family policies. "It's a minority group in our society imposing an agenda and […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted that government has failed the people of Hammanskraal. Ramaphosa made admission when he addressed community members in the north of Tshwane earlier on Thursday. The President visited the community a month after the deadly water-borne illness was first detected. During his opening remarks, Ramaphosa asked for forgiveness. He admitted that the country's Constitution clearly states that South Africans have the right to clean drinking water […]
Members of the media fraternity are celebrating the Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling, dismissing Jacob Zuma's bid to privately prosecute State Advocate, Billy Downer, and News24 legal journalist, Karyn Maughan, as the necessary seal on media freedom in the country. The matter was dismissed with costs earlier today. This means that Zuma will have to pay legal costs for all parties that were involved in the matter. Zuma was accusing Downer […]
The Gauteng Department of Health has come out guns blazing to rebuke the video of monkeys bathing, allegedly at Jubilee District Hospital. The department has dismissed the news as fake. This after a video of the 4 monkeys cooling off from the morning heat inside black water tankers, has been doing the rounds on social media. The Department has urged members of the public to refrain from spreading false information […]
