Year: 2025
News24 | 44 foreign nationals, possibly trafficking victims, rescued from dire conditions in Joburg
Forty-four foreign nationals have been rescued from a property in Parkmore, Johannesburg.
Continue ReadingNews24 | INTERVIEW | How SA can make its ambitious renewable energy goals a reality
Vincent Obisie-Orlu and Mischka Moosa, from the Natural Resource Governance and Climate Change Programme at Good Governance Africa, discuss South Africa’s Renewable Energy Masterplan, and how the country can transition from ambition to action.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mamphela Ramphele | Load reduction: Eskom’s new energy apartheid
Mamphela Ramphele asks how the discriminatory practice of load reduction has become institutionalised, while Eskom boasts about the absence of load shedding over many months in middle-class areas.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Orlando Pirates’ frailties show with badly timed slip-up in league title race
Orlando Pirates' title race all but ended when they lost 1-0 to Sekhukhune United at Orlando Stadium on Wednesday, on a night Mamelodi Sundowns stretched their lead to 12 points.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Bring back integrity: EFF demands Parliament assert independence from executive amid Budget saga
Parliament must put its foot down and assert its independence as a separate branch of the state, an EFF MP said at a meeting where the National Assembly approved the date Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana provided to deliver his Budget.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Bravo!’: Sundowns’ Cardoso elated Pirates dropped points, but insists league not over yet
Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Cardoso couldn't hide his excitement when he heard that Orlando Pirates had lost to Sekhukhune United, on a night the Brazilians thumped Richards Bay 3-0 at Loftus.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Terry Bell | Workers’ Day: Have trade unions lost their way?
Terry Bell remembers the heritage of the Haymarket Martyrs.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Prison fake: Man allegedly poses as correctional services warden, takes money from jobseeker
A 60-year-old man has appeared in a Limpopo court for allegedly impersonating a correctional services warden and accepting money from a woman who was looking for employment for her son.
Continue ReadingNews24 | GNU partners will meet in two weeks to press ‘reset’ button after Budget saga, says Mbalula
As the ANC gears up to press the reset button, the party’s secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has confirmed that a meeting has been scheduled with its government of national unity (GNU) partners to tweak the rules of engagement.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Public servants’ wage bill drains R724bn from fiscus, but minister argues it’s ‘declined’
The government's expenditure on public servants' salaries declined between 2013 and 2022, and the state employees wage bill is not the sole challenge to the nation's fiscus – so says Public Service and Administration Minister Inkosi Mzamo Buthelezi, who has defended the government's enormous wage...
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