Day: October 30, 2024
News24 | Will axe fall on ANC Gauteng and KZN as NEC decides their fate after electoral decline?
The ANC in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal are reportedly leaning on each other for support should the party's national executive committee decide to disband the provincial executive committees.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ANC MPs do not want to dig deeper into Thabo Bester’s escape
ANC MPs did not want a broad parliamentary investigation into rapist and murderer Thabo Bester's daring escape, fearing it would "create more problems going forward".
Continue ReadingNews24 | Wandile Sihlobo | SA needs a better summer, and it may be on the cards
After a winter of harsh storms, the South African Weather Service has been more cautious than its peers to make a bold call on the weather prospects for summer. But this doesn't mean the news is bad, writes Wandile Sihlobo.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Carol Paton | The mini budget should get a mini boost, as SA prays for growth
The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, which will be tabled on Wednesday in Parliament, will get a mini boost from the government of national unity. But it won't be nearly enough, and SA needs to hope and pray for growth, writes Carol Paton.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Qaanitah Hunter | Goodbye GNU honeymoon phase: The reality of governance sets in
The DA should tread carefully. If they continue down the path of grasping every minor success, they risk being remembered not as competent policymakers but as immature, focused more on optics than substance, writes Qaanitah Hunter.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Remarkable Ronwen: The boy who left Gelvandale at 12 and lit up the football world
"As I'm getting ready to leave for the ceremony, it's just hit me," an emotional Ronwen Williams told South Africans via a shared voice note hours before Monday's 2024 Ballon d'Or awards in Paris, France.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Tony Leon | Suzman wouldn’t have deplatformed Imitiaz Sooliman, but she would have called him out
Helen Suzman did not believe in deplatforming controversial speakers, though she might have found the choice of the speaker chosen this year to honour her legacy a curious one, writes Tony Leon.
Continue ReadingNews24 | WELLNESS | How Did We Get Here?: Mpoomy Ledwaba is all about growing and healing
How Did We Get Here? felt like looking in the mirror and identifying parts of myself that are usually hidden.
Continue ReadingNews24 | SEE | 5 new cars I’d buy my dad as a senior driver in 2024
'For those of us who are privileged to have our dads around, they're also probably the reason where the deep love for cars comes from. Here are five daily vehicles I'd pick for my father to thank him for giving me the love of automobiles,'...
Continue ReadingNews24 | Springboks’ evolution: How Boks added even more to the most relentless defence in the world
As if it didn't already scramble the brains of attackers the world over in their back-to-back World Cup wins, the Bok defence has added a few strings to its bow. Omar Mouneimne explains what they are.
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