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Unisa Vice-Chancellor, Professor Puleng LenkaBula, says any administrative challenges currently facing the university can be solved without placing the institution under administration. Her comments come at the back of the North Gauteng High Court ruling, ordering Higher Education Minister, Dr Blade Nzimande, to reverse his decision to place the institution under administration. LenkaBula says the cloud of maladministration challenges hanging over the university must be dealt with internally. She added […]

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has urged striking Gold One mineworkers not to give their employers a reason to fire them and return to their jobs. Union president, Joseph Mathunjwa, was addressing the frustrated workers who earlier this week staged a three-day sit-in at the mine, bringing operations to a halt. At the centre of the demonstrations are calls for labour federation, AMCU, to be recognised as […]

The defence in the Senzo Meyiwa Murder trial has introduced a new member to counsel, as things heat up in the trial-within-a-trial.Advocate Thulani Mngomezulu is expected to assist attorney for accused number one and two, Sipho Ramosepele.The lawyers have the task of proving that Muzi Sibiya and Bongani Ntanzi were assaulted and forced to provide false confessions to the footballer's murder. https://twitter.com/SABCNews/status/1713894898749821430   Proceedings in the matter were delayed by […]

Parliament's Ethics Committee has found EFF Deputy President, Floyd Shivambu, guilty of violating its Ethics Code of Conduct. The committee found Shivambu failed to declare R180 000 he received from his brother's company Sgameka Projects, which was engulfed in the VBS bank scandal.The company allegedly received R16 million from the now defunct VBS bank.The VBS scandal rocked South Africans in 2018 when almost R2 billion was stolen by the bank’s […]

A third suspects has been arrested in connection with the recent drugging of 90 learners in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria. The learners from Pulamadibogo Primary School were hospitalised last week after consuming drug-laced muffins they allegedly bought from the suspects.The three men appeared briefly before the Soshanguve Magistrates Court this afternoon. Katlego Matlala (29), Ofentse Maluleka (21) and Amukelani Nyalunga (19) face nine counts of attempted murder. Gauteng Education MEC, […]

  Hamaanskraal residents say they're still not convinced of the government's commitment to ensure that safe and clean tap water is provided to the community. Four months since a deadly cholera outbreak claimed the lives of at least 31 people in the area, residents say brown and murky water continues to run from their taps.Yesterday, President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised a Special Investigating Unit probe into irregularities in the City of […]

  Friends and family of Kamogelo Moepye have raised the alarm following allegations that the 26-year-old teacher had been involved in a heated argument with her former lover on the night she suffered third degree burns. The high school teacher succumbed to her injuries weeks later while still in hospital. She was at her estranged partner's residence when tragedy struck and he is understood to have been outside as the home […]

Unemployed medical graduates will be heading to the streets of the nation's capital this morning. The move follows years, of what they say, has been a fight to get their international qualifications recognised by the local Health Professions Council (HPCSA). Most of the graduates, who studied in Russia, say they have struggled to obtain their local medical licenses because their training is not recognised in the country. One of the […]