Month: February 2025
News24 | SA’s public schools have 22 600 vacant senior management and teacher posts
While schools re-opened for the new academic year last month, it emerged that more than 22 600 posts for principals, deputy principals, heads of departments and teachers at public schools are vacant.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Warming threatens to expand area of world too hot for humans
Extreme heat will reach dangerous levels - even for younger people - across an area equivalent to the size of the US if Earth's global warming hits two degrees Celsius, scientists warned.
Continue ReadingNews24 | FlySafair can continue to fly in SA, gets a year to sort out its ownership
FlySafair says South Africa's domestic aviation licensing authority has given it 12 months to reduce its foreign shareholding.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Stellenbosch farmer ended security contract 2 days before his murder allegedly by bodyguards
The day before murdered Stellenbosch farmer Stefan Smit was gunned down, he celebrated the sale of one of his farms, Watergang, for R45.6 million.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Moenie huil nie (don’t cry) – Kunene as just 15% progress announced in Lilian Ngoyi Street repairs
With new contractors appointed, 15% of the work needed to complete phase one of the Lilian Ngoyi Street repairs has been concluded.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Musk says USAID to be shut down in government cost-cutting drive
Billionaire Elon Musk, who is heading US President Donald Trump's drive to shrink the federal government, gave an update on the effort early on Monday, saying work is underway to shut down the US foreign aid agency USAID.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Hits and misses: Who was hot and who was not this SA20 season?
With the SA20 regular season now over, Lloyd Burnard looks back at some of the players who thrived... and those that didn't.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘He thought it was Coke:’ Child dies after allegedly drinking lethal liquid while looking for food
A destitute father and son were rummaging through rubbish bins when the son collapsed after drinking what he thought was Coca-Cola.
Continue ReadingNews24 | FIRST TAKE | The Expropriation Act needs amending, but it’s not a license for land grabs
The purpose of the Expropriation Act, and the sections that govern it, is not to maliciously dispossess people of their property, writes Pieter du Toit.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Rape comment on social media by alleged child porn kingpin emerges in court
Nearly nine years ago, Darren Wilken, who is charged with possessing and distributing child pornography, allegedly said if crime were legal for 12 hours, he would commit acts of sexual violence against Indian women.
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