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The Constitutional Court. (Photo: Gnatj.com)The Constitutional Court rejected the national employers’ organization of South Africa (Neasa) and Sakeliga’s application to appeal directly to it.The court’s decision simply dealt with whether the case warranted urgent and direct access to the Constitutional Court. This is not a decision on the merits of the interdict that was initially asked for in the High Court.In another development, Sakeliga and Neasa obtained an order in the High Court this week forcing the Minister of Employment and Labor to disclose the record and reasons for the establishment of sectoral numerical targets.Sakeliga and Neasa say the records…
The police are investigating a case of murder and attempted murder following an incident that took place at a gas station near a shopping center in Westville where one person was found dead in a car with gunshot wounds and another was found dead after he got out of the car and jumped over a wall saying he was running away and would fall to his death. Reports indicate that a white BMW with three passengers passed the private security guards who were patrolling the M19 road on Thursday morning. It is said that the security guards followed the car…
Jason Kilian, the adventure motorcyclist who is being treated in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Kimberley after a serious accident, underwent critical neck surgery on Wednesday. (Photo: Facebook/Hero Burn Foundation) Jason Kilian, the adventure motorcyclist who is being treated in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Kimberley after a serious accident, underwent critical neck surgery on Wednesday. Maroela Media previously reported that Kilian was doing The Epic Ride, an endurance ride of 4,800 km in aid of the Hero Burn Foundation, when the accident occurred near Carnarvon. Annerie du Plooy, founder of the…
He is complaining about the police brutality against the family of a girl who has been missing for two weeks from the slums of Marikana, Kokstad. Lathitha Mtolo (7), a Grade 2 student at Xoloxolo Primary, went missing while playing with other children on February 26, this year. According to his relative, Ms. Nokwanda Mtolo, the police have spared five people who are suspected of having information about the child’s disappearance. Narrating the story, he said that two days after Lathitha disappeared, the community, which was looking for them everywhere since it appeared that she was missing, came across a…
Gaza City, the Gaza Strip – Shortly before the call to sunset prayer, Islam Dardouna stretches her hand towards a pot hanging over a makeshift stove fashioned from a battered metal can, with scraps of paper and pieces of wood feeding the fire beneath it.Then she pauses. She turns her face away from the rising tongues of smoke. Her face stained with a thin layer of soot and her clothes steeped in the lingering smell of fumes, she takes a deep breath but does not immediately lift the lid.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn her right hand, Dardouna…
(Photo: Facebook/Tembisa Hospital – TPTH)The Gauteng Department of Health has denied that the then head of finance of Tembisa Hospital received a golden handshake worth millions of rand.According to the department, Lerato Madyo was placed on precautionary suspension while various investigations regarding procurement matters at Tembisa Hospital were ongoing.”In terms of labor legislation and public service regulations, an employee placed on precautionary suspension remains entitled to compensation pending the finalization of investigations and disciplinary processes,” said Kealeboga Mohajane, spokesperson for the department.After the investigation into Madyo was completed, disciplinary proceedings were initiated.“However, due to evidentiary law restrictions that affected the…
The six suspects, Masephe Thomas Shokane (50), William Shokane (41), Mmakoena David Kutumela (52), Masepe Damaris Selepe (38), Mojeri Benedictor Mataba (38), and Martha Iris Ruiters, appeared briefly in the Polokwane Magistrate’s court regarding a series of murders related to insurance money.Their charges include nine counts of murder, money laundering, money laundering and fraud.The Shokane brothers are the brothers of former police officer Rachel Raesetsa Shokane Kutumela (43), who worked at the Senwabarwana police station and her sister Annah Shokane (47). They are also uncles of Madjadji Flora Shokane (23) who is Rachel’s daughter who is also in shorts. David…
Theuns du Buisson, researcher at the Solidarity Research Institute. (Photo: Ané Janse van Rensburg/Solidarity) On Wednesday, Solidarity presented a report to the office of Brent Bozell, the US ambassador to South Africa, in which the organization details the impact of South Africa’s racial policy on the economy and job creation. According to Solidarity, this step follows after Bozell highlighted the abolition of racial policies during a speech in the Western Cape earlier this week as one of five conditions that the American government set for the South African government. According to Bozell, no attention has been paid to these conditions…
THE traditional healers who built the slums of Marikana, Kokstad, are standing together, following the burning of their homes by a community fed up with the issue of a missing child.It is said that six homes of traditional healers have been burnt in this area following the disappearance of Grade 2 student at Xoloxolo Primary, Lathitha Mtolo. It turns out that Lathitha disappeared while playing with her friends on February 26. The makhosi (traditional healer), Mrs Sophazi Gwala, told It is a country that he is also sitting on one side as the public, tired of being watered, has returned…
South Africa and Germany have signed a partnership to work together in the fight against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and to strengthen trade in animal products. John Steenhuisen, the Minister of Agriculture, and Alois Rainer, Germany’s Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity, signed a joint declaration of intent on agricultural development on Tuesday evening. (tweet) According to the Department of Agriculture, this is an important diplomatic milestone, as it is the first time in 13 years that a German Minister of Agriculture has visited South Africa. The visit marks a “new phase of cooperation between the two countries”, with…