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NSFAS urged to focus on restoring stability following Nongogo’s failed bid for reinstatement

Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, OUTA, says NSFAS must now focus on restoring stability to the student financial aid scheme by hiring a permanent CEO. The organisation's remarks follow the thwarting of former CEO Andile Nongogo's attempt for reinstatement. Yesterday, the Labour Court declared Nongogo's termination of employment lawful and valid after he had approached the court in a bid to challenge the unilateral termination of his employment contract without a disciplinary hearing. The former CEO was dismissed due to his […]

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“Stop being selfish,” mourners at Magubane’s funeral urge young artists

Veteran artists and musicians says it’s up to young entertainers to revive South Africa’s legacy of social activism. They were speaking at legendary photojournalist Dr Peter Magubane’s burial service held at the  Fourways Memorial Park Cemetery. The 91-year-old died in Johannesburg on New Year’s Day. Magubane was famous for hiding his camera in a hollowed loaf of bread to evade detection by apartheid- era police. His daughter, Ambassador Fikile Magubane, says she remembers her father's determination to do his work […]

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SA’s quest to end the war in Gaza will be put to test in The Hague

The question of whether South Africa will be able to stop the war in Gaza is one that lingers across the globe. The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, will tomorrow and Friday hear South Africa's genocide application against Israel. South Africa is the first country to lodge a case against the Middle Eastern country in a bid to stop the world's longest-continuing conflicts. The recent relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip has so far claimed the lives […]

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“The ANC knows it’s losing followers,” opine Yires on Mbalula’s corruption spill

Young people have weighed in following Fikile Mbalula's admission to defending corruption. The ANC Secretary General dropped a bombshell at the weekend when he confessed party members had lied to Parliament to protect the then-president, Jacob Zuma. In a move that shocked South Africans, the ANC SG told supporters in Mbombela that many people's careers were damaged trying to defend the former President's multi-million-rand Nkandla homestead upgrade. He said they even went to the extent of lying to Parliament, deeming […]

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‘Competition Commission was overreaching in rand manipulation matter’

A concept image showing a regular South African Rand banknote that is half melted and liquified dripping on an isolated studdio background Economist, Dawie Roodt, says judgment dismissing the case against the more than banks, which were accused of manipulating the rand is not surprising. On Monday evening, the Competition Appeals Court's cleared Standard Bank, FirstRand, and Nedbank, along with other foreign banks for their alleged involvement in the scandal that had many South Africans up in arms with some […]

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Newlands pitch rendered unsatisfactory

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has rated the Newlands pitch unsatisfactory after the low-scoring ICC World Test Championship clash between South Africa and India. The decision, made under the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process, comes after Newlands hosted the shortest-ever completed Test match, with 642 balls bowled in total. Mohammed Siraj's 6/15 skittled South Africa for 55 in their first innings, while India managed a 98-run lead on the back of their 153. A brilliant counter-attacking hundred from Aiden […]

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Mbalula got carried away: Mantashe

ANC National Chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, says Fikile Mbalula got carried away by the presence of the media and said things that he was not supposed to say.  The party's secretary-general dropped a bombshell at the weekend in Mbombela ahead of the ANC's January 8 celebration this weekend, telling supporters that the governing party defended former president Jacob Zuma in his multi-million rand Nkandla upgrade scandal.  Mbalula revealed that an Ad Hoc Committee was established where the more than the R3 […]

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“He was a father figure,” journalists pay tribute to renowned photographer Peter Magubane

Veteran South African journalists have remembered the renowned photographer, Dr Peter Magubane, as a nurturing figure who always had a word of encouragement for up-and-coming journalists. Magubane's friends and relatives yesterday held a memorial service in Soweto for the late activist, who played a vital role in documenting and capturing the struggles of Black South Africans under the apartheid regime. Magubane was part of a legacy of brave photographers whose images helped expose the horrors and lived struggles of apartheid […]

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Nzimande unfazed by OUTA investigation

The Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande, says he has nothing to hide. He was responding to mounting calls for his axing following a NSFAS corruption scandal in which he is implicated. Nzimande says he is not afraid and has thus voluntarily decided to subject himself to the relevant legal processes and ethics bodies of the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP). Last week, OUTA released voice recordings, which reveal how service providers allegedly paid millions of […]

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