Year: 2025
News24 | 28 IEB matric papers below par, Umalusi finds in initial moderation
The standard of 28 question papers set for private school pupils in the November 2024 National Senior Certificate exams was "generally considered subpar", while 13 included ambiguous questions that could "confuse" candidates.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Lingering concussion the reason behind Marcell Coetzee’s irresistible form
Forgotten Bok flanker Marcell Coetzee has been the relentless driving force on the Bulls' tour of Europe. With the Glasgow match representing the last frontier, the Bulls will need a repeat effort.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Fact-check: Malema’s claims on farm killings, white victims, and ‘secret US surveillance’
In a recent address to Parliament, posted to the EFF YouTube channel, party leader Julius Malema made several wide-ranging claims concerning farm murders, the treatment of white South Africans, and United States surveillance and aid policy.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘Hands off Orania’: EFF protests as Afrikaner-only enclave gains an unlikely supporter
Petrus Phakamile Sitho, 42, is strikingly out of place in Orania; nevertheless, the East London resident travelled to the Northern Cape to show solidarity with the whites-only Afrikaner enclave - as the EFF staged a protest against it.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Kganyago on G20: Meetings are too big, agendas too long
SA Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago has expressed frustration with the functioning of the Group of 20 during an event in the US.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Godongwana seems to have vague notion of no taxation without representation, remarks judge
The notion of no taxation without representation seems to be a vague concept in Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's mind, one of the judges hearing the DA and EFF's court case to prevent a VAT increase remarked.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ANALYSIS | ‘Beyond Catholicism’: Pope Francis divided Catholics but united a world
Under Pope Francis — who rehabilitated liberation theology, embraced simplicity and prioritised the marginalised — the Catholic Church underwent a much-needed attitude change. But many conservatives were not happy with this shift says one expert.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Tony Leon | Lessons from Pope Francis for SA-US relations
Tony Leon reflects on lessons for the US-SA relations in the relationship between Jorge Bergoglio (who later became Pope Francis) and the former president to Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Inside the shock surge in South African maize prices
Maize prices saw a shock 15% surge in a single trading session on Tuesday as excessive rain delayed harvests.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘All the branches know me by now’: Confident Mashatile ready to lead if nominated
ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile's soft launch of his presidential campaign in Mofolo, Soweto, on Tuesday was less of a declaration of ambition and more of a show of the confidence that the branches have in him to succeed President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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