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The Legal Practice Council’s CEO says she objected to a lifestyle audit at the body because it asked staff for details of their family’s financial interests – and she had “never heard of an organisation which invades staff’s privacy in that manner”.
Stellenbosch FC returned to Cape Town from Mali on Friday, taking a lengthy route to and from West Africa via Ethiopia and carrying the sting of a 2-0 defeat to Stade Malien in their opening match of the 2024/25 CAF Confederation Cup group stage.
The council of Stellenbosch University has reaffirmed its decisions on the closure of a controversial residence and reopening it as a reimagined one, despite accusations by the university’s chancellor, retired Justice Edwin Cameron, an investigative panel’s report was altered.
Amid a massive global ramp-up in spending on artificial intelligence, SA’s most valuable company, Naspers, remains confident that its focus on “underinvested” regions will help it create almost R2 trillion in value in the next few years.
After stating earlier this year that he was prepared to visit South Africa, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he was waiting on President Cyril Ramaphosa to pencil him into his schedule because “Mr. Ramaphosa is very busy.”
Humanitarian aid supplied to illegal miners at Stilfontein mine in the North West is not intended to sustain prolonged underground activity, but to ensure the miners’ survival during rescue operations, according to the General Industries Workers Union of SA (Giwusa).
South Africa’s government said there are no plans to create a so-called BRICS currency, after US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on members of the economic bloc that back the creation of an alternative to the US dollar.
A panel appointed to investigate the contents of two rooms at Stellenbosch University’s Wilgenhof residence has rejected “in the strongest possible terms” the report of a subsequent panel, established to investigate the conduct of the vice-chancellor and chair of council, saying its findings “borders on the bizarre”.
Criticism of leadership and governance at the Gauteng Department of Health is amping up as the department repeatedly makes headlines for questionable appointments. This unfolds alongside a damning Auditor-General report, all while hospitals and clinics across the province grapple with ongoing challenges.
Prepaid electricity customers in South Africa have reported very few issues with the token identifier rollover this week. If anything, authorities said the rollover has prompted people who weren’t paying for electricity to come forward.