Author: staff
EFF president Julius Malema has accused Rwandan president Paul Kagame of having the blood of South African soldiers on his hands. Malema has also called for the closure of the Rwandan embassy amid rising tensions between South Africa and Rwanda.
The ANC and some of its fiercest opposition parties came out to bat for South Africa after a pressure statement by US President Donald Trump against Pretoria, days after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the contentious Expropriation Bill.
Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has hit back at threats by US President Donald Trump over funding cuts to South Africa, calling on African nations to withhold minerals from the world’s most powerful nation if needs be.
A senior exam official in the Department of Higher Education could face possible censure after Technical and Vocational Education and Training college students were given the “wrong version” of a question paper in last year’s November exams.
South Africa’s proposed new satellite rules drew a spectrum of responses. MTN doesn’t want the rules to go too far, SpaceX thinks they don’t go far enough. Anglo American said Starlink is great, and the Department of Defence wants its own satellite system in space.
Deputy national police commissioner Tebello Mosikili faces a high-level investigation for allegedly accepting R10 000 in exchange for dropping charges against suspects who were arrested but did not appear in court after making payment.
Fewer glitches and less trouble can be expected from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) this year, but the system still faces mounting challenges, according to the chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Tebogo Letsie.
Volkswagen has sued Indian authorities to quash an “impossibly enormous” tax demand of $1.4 billion (R26 billion), arguing the ask is contradictory to New Delhi’s import taxation rules for car parts and will hamper the company’s business plans.
US President Donald Trump is getting his wish that interest rates drop across the world, just not at home where a strong economy and uncertainty over his own policies have set the stage for the Federal Reserve to diverge from its central bank peers.
Western Cape police commissioner Thembisile Patekile will no longer be meeting with opposition parties in connection with allegations related to a raid on the offices of Cape Town mayoral committee members JP Smith and Xanthea Limberg.