Month: February 2024
News24 | Mbhazima Shilowa | The ANC, the DA and EFF all fall short on addressing joblessness
With overall unemployment at just over 40%, according to the expanded definition, one would have hoped for plans that would radically turn the situation around from parties hoping for an opportunity to govern the country. All proposals are woeful to say the least, writes Mbhazima...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Former Model C school Dale College Boys’ Primary cannot afford to buy toilet paper
A former Model C school in the Eastern Cape, which has been crippled by parents' failure to pay fees, cannot even afford to buy toilet paper.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Consistently inconsistent Blitzboks searching for just that … consistency
The Blitzboks' slide down the World Sevens Series table has thrown them into a headlong search for consistency. But if it wasn't for inconsistency itself, they wouldn't have any consistency at all.
Continue ReadingNews24 | It is official: There will be no BEE transformation policies should the DA be elected to govern
Under a DA-government, black economic empowerment policies will be scrapped and replaced with internationally-recognised sustainable development goals.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Carol Paton | The ANC manifesto is on another planet from Budget 2024 reality
The ANC manifesto is a cynical manipulation of voters, which promises the reverse of what it is doing in practice, says Carol Paton.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Company founded by state capture bigwig can keep R282m Western Cape security contract, court rules
The R282-million contract awarded to Royal Security, a company founded by state capture bigwig, was for the provision of security services at Western Cape government properties.
Continue ReadingNews24 | NPA argues Hlophe’s ‘mistakes of law’ blocked Bongo corruption conviction, asks SCA for retrial
Two weeks after John Hlophe became the first judge in South African history to be impeached, the State will ask the Supreme Court of Appeal to invalidate his summary acquittal of corruption-accused ANC MP Bongani Bongo - and order a retrial.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Adriaan Basson | Darlin’, you gave cadre deployment a bad name
Cadre deployment itself is not the problem. The problem is when the policy is used to appoint incompetent and dodgy cadres, writes Adriaan Basson.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘It was like an action movie’: Wife’s blow-by-blow account of 2-hour bloody hostage drama
An injured and traumatised woman gave News24 a blow-by-blow account of the more than two-hour bloody hostage drama inside the Germiston house she shared with her husband and their four children.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Bogus doctor arrested after trying to solicit bribe at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
A bogus doctor was arrested after she was caught attempting to solicit a bribe from a patient at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, the Gauteng health department said on Monday.
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