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Former National Assembly Speaker, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s friends and relatives have arrived at the Pretoria Magistrate's Court in a show of support - ahead of her bail application. Her husband, Charles Nqakula, seemed calm and collected as he arrived at court. His embattled wife faces one corruption count and 12 corruption charges involving over R4 million in bribes allegedly solicited from a contractor between 2017 and 2019 while she was Defence […]

Criminologist, Guy Lamb, says the fatal shooting of suspects by police, instead of taking them to a court of law to answer for their crime, undermines justice. Lamb was reacting to the recent spate of killings of suspected criminals by KZN police. In the latest incident, police shot dead nine suspects during a shootout in Marianhill. The suspects, who were wanted for various crimes in the province, are also linked […]

  South Africans living in Taiwan are still reeling from shock following a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that claimed nine lives in the early hours of Wednesday morning. They described the experience as scary. More than 900 people were injured after the powerful earthquake rocked the East Asian country,  damaging dozens of buildings. Speaking to YNews, Zoe says she realised the seriousness of the disaster when things started falling off the […]

As the government struggles to address poor maintenance and shoddy infrastructure at some government-owned buildings, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Sihle Zikalala, has blamed a lack of capacity for the problems.The Minister was speaking at the Young Professionals Seminar in Pretoria, which is aimed at encouraging young professionals including architects, engineers and civil planners, to facilitate the country's much-need infrastructure solutions. #youngProfessionalseminar #builtenvironment https://t.co/YVKs5Qc2lv — South African Government (@GovernmentZA) April 3, […]

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 […]

Young people in the country's capital city of Pretoria say they agree that older job seekers should not be sidelined by government. They spoke to YNews at the back of Rise Mzansi demonstrations outside the Department of Labour in Pretoria, calling for an end to unfair labour practices. The young people agree with the new kid on the political block and say their parents and siblings can no longer afford […]

Non-profit organisation, #NotInMyName, is calling on government to make public its documents on how the funds it set aside to deal with Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF), through the National Strategic Plan on GBVF, have been utilised since its inception in 2019. The NPO's remarks come as South Africans reel over three separate GBV cases in KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. In one of the cases, a police constable from Mpumalanga allegedly […]

Proteas Women seamer, Tumi Sekhukhune, has underscored the team's motivation to build momentum and secure a convincing series victory against the challenges posed by subcontinental teams in spin-friendly conditions ahead of the T20 International (T20I) finale versus Sri Lanka in East London. Sekhukhune addressed the media during a pre-match press conference, highlighting the team’s ambitions in T20 cricket, particularly with the 2024 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup edging closer and […]

The South African Union of Students (SAUS) says Educor’s silence on the fate of its students speaks to the larger structural failures of the company.There’s been no word from Educor management to its staff or students following confirmation that four of its privately-owned institutions had been deregistered by the Department of Higher Education.Damelin College, CityVarsity, Lyceum and Icesa are scheduled to shutdown their doors by the end of next year […]

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 […]