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(File photo: ActionSA) AfriForum is demanding answers from Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae, Prime Minister of the Free State, about the provincial government’s failure to implement a court order that places the Ngwathe local municipality under administration. The civil rights organization outlined its request for answers in a letter to the prime minister this week, after it came to light that the municipal council – which should have been dissolved in terms of a court order – last week accepted a budget for the new financial year. The municipality serves the towns of Parys, Heilbron, Koppies and Vredefort, among others. The Free State…
June 20, 2026 Christel Cornelissen How would you like to share the article? (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Dress warmly if you intend to queue at a polling station for voter registration weekend on Saturday or Sunday. According to the weather service, mainly cold and cloudy conditions are expected over the central and eastern parts of the country. Elsewhere it will be partly cloudy and cool, but warm in the westernmost parts of the country. Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected over parts of the Northern Cape, Free State and North West on Saturday and are expected to spread to the…
(Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Voter registration weekend for the local elections in November kicked off mostly without incident at the country’s 23,706 polling stations on Saturday. Moreover, according to the Election Commission (ECC), almost all polling stations opened on time. In places where polling stations did not open at 08:00, the delays were attributed to protests by communities. The IEC expressed its thanks to the 48,212 electoral officers who reported to ensure that registration operations could start as planned. Polling stations are open on Saturday and Sunday from 08:00 to 17:00. By early Saturday afternoon, more than 330,000 applications for…
June 20, 2026 Christel Cornelissen How would you like to share the article? (Archive photo: SA Police) The Northern Cape police’s search and rescue unit recovered three more bodies after a boat capsized on the Vaal River near Douglas on Thursday. A fourth person is still being sought. This brings the death toll to five. Ao Molefi Shemane, police spokesperson in the Northern Cape, says the bodies of two women, respectively 35 and 40 years old, and the body of a 55-year-old man were found on Friday. The bodies of two more men, respectively 59 and 25 years old, were…
Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa. (Photo: Siyabulela Duda/GCIS) Thoko Didiza, speaker of parliament, indicated in court papers that she did not pres. Cyril Ramaphosa’s application to the Cape Town High Court, to force the impeachment committee to stop its work for the time being, will not be opposed. Maroela Media reported earlier that the parliamentary impeachment committee was advised to oppose Ramaphosa’s urgent interdict application and the committee, which must decide whether Ramaphosa should be placed in a state of impeachment, decided to follow this legal advice. Ramaphosa requested the court to prohibit the committee from continuing with its work pending the…
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Cilliers Brink, the DA’s mayoral candidate in Tshwane. (Photo: Tania Heyns/Maroela Media) Mayoral candidates and ward councilor candidates braved the cold on Saturday to get as many voters as possible registered for the municipal elections in November. Cilliers Brink, the DA’s mayoral candidate in Tshwane, appealed to young voters in particular to register in Moreleta Park in Pretoria. Brink believes the DA in Pretoria has an “enormous opportunity” with this year’s election. “There are more than 300,000 DA supporters in the Tshwane metro who are either not registered, or incorrectly registered. This is more votes than the ANC got in…
Without young people’s involvement, there is no sustainable future for agriculture and food production. The value chain already extends far beyond the farm gate and rare skills are becoming more and more sought after; yet perceptions about careers in agriculture do not always keep pace with reality.
SINCE he was young, he was uncomfortable when his house was dirty, he always went up and down making sure that his furniture was clean so that it did not smell and that flies did not stay because of the dirt.This is how Miss Ayanda Zuma’s love for furniture began and grew, and helped her to build on it by establishing Elo Interiors, a company that makes different furniture products, and then sells them to people for a living.Telling about this business, which started to flourish this year – Ms. Zuma, who is originally from Mtshezi, but has settled in…
The project aims to empower community members to earn a sustainable income through agriculture. (Photo: AfriForum) A joint laying hen project was launched this week by the Batlharo Ba Ga Motlhware traditional council in collaboration with Saai and AfriForum as part of efforts to improve food security. The project was launched on Batlharos, headquarters of the Batlharo Ba Ga Motlware cultural community north of Kuruman in the Northern Cape. In addition to the provision of a starter package that includes Boschveld chicken chicks, a chicken coop and accessories, training in chicken farming was offered to community members. AfriForum and the…