Month: February 2025
News24 | State pension ‘holiday’ and 0.75% VAT hike: ANC, DA budget battle heats up
The negotiation over the budget continued this week, with a new deadline of Monday set for fresh Treasury proposals
Continue ReadingNews24 | Ramaphosa joins Malaysian and Colombian leaders to slam Israel, Trump’s Gaza plan
Three developing nations' leaders issued a rebuke of Israel's execution of its war on Hamas in Gaza, and said US President Donald Trump's proposal to annex the territory and deport all its citizens would be illegal and amount to "ethnic cleansing."
Continue ReadingNews24 | R27m deal: Lawyers dump Shauwn Mkhize’s club, DA asks court for Royal AM to pay back millions
Lawyers acting on behalf of businesswoman Shauwn Mkhize's Royal AM have withdrawn their services in a matter where the DA is trying to claw back millions in the club's R27 million sponsorship deal with the troubled Msunduzi Local Municipality.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Police reveal new details on Gene Hackman and wife’s ‘suspicious’ deaths
Police are now describing the deaths of Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, as "suspicious."
Continue ReadingNews24 | Ekurhuleni turns to contractors for service delivery functions amid abuse of overtime by employees
The City of Ekurhuleni is looking to outsource service delivery functions after it adjusted its employee-related costs downward from R12.2 billion to R11.7 billion on Thursday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Cricket SA domestic structure review considers cutting provincial teams
Cricket South Africa's planned structural review of their domestic system will involve several of SA cricket's best minds and centre around the culling of the men's provincial teams.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Security guard in viral pepper spray video removed from Randburg office – home affairs minister
A security officer who was captured on video using what appeared to be pepper spray to disperse complaining customers has been removed from the department's Randburg offices, according to Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Job losses, heartache, despair as Trump pulls plug on funding to SA’s HIV organisations
Thousands have been left facing the cold reality of joblessness after the US cut funding to local HIV/Aids organisations – with one LifeLine social worker now resorting to selling her furniture just to make ends meet.
Continue ReadingNews24 | The big SAA lie: How the ANC’s interference in appointment of Lamola is being spun
What appears to be a major cover-up of the ANC's political interference in the appointment of a CEO for SAA has begun, drawing on the alleged role of President Cyril Ramaphosa in an attempt to quell controversy.
Continue ReadingNews24 | France, Europe want to fill gap left by Trump’s USAID cut, says French deputy minister
France and Europe will try to fill the gap left by the Trump administration's gutting of USAID, French Deputy Foreign Minister Thani Mohamed-Soilihi has said.
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