Author: staff
Beside a cluster of gum trees at Woodlands High in Mitchells Plain, colourful trucks parked on the school grounds bring contraceptives, services for sexually transmitted infections, and three types of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to pupils 15 years and older – these are an HIV prevention pill, a vaginal ring, and a prevention injection.
To pass the Budget, the fiscal framework and a host of bills must be considered by committees and then passed by the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces where the ANC no longer has majorities. Here is how things could play out.
France’s crowning as this season’s Six Nations champions underlined their status as genuine contenders to South Africa’s global supremacy thanks to an efficient gameplan, generational individual talents and some record-setting performances.
Kabelo Kekana has been blind since the age of 10. But last year, he was the top special education needs pupil in the country. Now he is leaving his home in Limpopo for Wits University to experience life in places not usually designed for people with his disability, and to learn how to advocate for others like him.
After telling his local supermarkets for months that their lean beef mince was not at all lean, to no avail, a Cape Town man asked government officials to buy samples and analyse their fat content. The results were alarming, says Wendy Knowler.
Many of the controversial policy decisions US President Donald Trump’s administration has made have simply been inherited from the administration of his predecessor, Joe Biden, South Africa’s expelled Ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, said on Friday.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana softened the VAT hike but scrapped tax bracket relief, meaning all taxpayers face higher bills due to bracket creep. With rising sin taxes, unchanged medical credits, and trimmed social grants, many South Africans will feel the pinch.
As she watched “Uncle Bernie” being fingerprinted, cuffed and taken into custody to serve his sentence for what he did to her 40 years ago, a Cape Town woman felt sheer relief – not only for herself, but for the unsuspecting children she believes will now be protected from him.
Professor Robert John Balfour is the eighth Rector and Vice-Chancellor of UWC. He is also the first white person in the post, which is not an insignificance in a country with our racialised history. He tells Anneliese Burgess how he worries about his students and what it means to head the university known as the “home of the left”.
An image, allegedly showing a bridge built without a river, has gone viral worldwide. It has been stripped of its location, with layers of disinformation added along the way. News24 tracked its location to a small Limpopo neighbourhood and found the original tender document debunking the viral claims.