Three children are dead. More than a dozen homes have been gutted by fires in the past six months. And, as the Mail & Guardian reported last week, all this could have been averted had the Lekwa municipality in Mpumalanga followed due process in obtaining new fire trucks. Lekwa is one of the worst-performing municipalities […]
Counsel for late trade unionist Neil Aggett’s family decries the slow pace of instituting an inquest into his death
Almost half (49%) of South Africans, 15 years and older, agree or strongly agree that they view 2020 with optimism.
A group of academics were selected as participants of the programme focused on PhD completion, mobility, supervision capacity development and the generation of high-impact research.
Liverpool’s march towards the Premier League title gathered pace with a 2-0 win over rivals Manchester United. The battle for top four places was at a standstill after Chelsea, United and Leicester were beaten, while Tottenham and Arsenal had to settle for draws. AFP Sport looks at three things we learned from the English top-flight […]
It is the year of the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee was quickly out of the blocks with new guidelines regarding athlete protests. The IOC is worried the biggest stories of the Games will be political gestures rather than sport performances, and so have introduced specific guidelines to prevent “any political messaging, including […]
The trade unionist was found hanged in his cell at the John Vorster Square police station in 1982
A senior soldier who is part of South Africa’s peacekeeping missions is accused by her colleagues of swindling them out of of hundreds of thousands of rands in a nonexistent business deal
Now these important policy developments must be implemented
Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has defended the new amendments to the Refugees Act that came into effect at the beginning of the year, saying they serve to tie up loose ends and fill gaps that led to regulation abuse. But they have been met with an avalanche of criticism citing human rights. The […]
