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Despite the media frenzy and community interest in the kidnapping of Joshlin Smith, police were not pressured into making arrests, Brigadier Leon Hanana, who heads the Serious and Violent Crimes unit in the Western Cape, told the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday.
Although President Cyril Ramaphosa expressed concern about a leaked recording of a confidential ANC caucus meeting, in reaction to what was said in the recording, he expressed hope that sobriety would prevail among DA MPs ahead of the Budget vote on Wednesday.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says Luthuli House has sent a team to intervene in the ongoing political squabbles between Buffalo City metro regional secretary Antonio Carels and Mayor Princess Faku ahead of the regional elective conference.
April Fool’s Day has made yet another return, and that means lots of chaotic pranks, fake brand collaborations and launches, and outrageous announcements that have social media users either falling for the joke—or rolling their eyes in amused disbelief.
Bergview College contends the Eastern Cape Education MEC’s attempt to deregister it, following the rape of a 7-year-old pupil, is driven by an “ulterior purpose”: an attempt to force it to pressure the school’s principal to provide a DNA sample to police.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over a leaked recording of a confidential ANC caucus meeting but has doubled down on his utterances, saying he hopes sobriety will prevail amongst DA MPs ahead of the Budget vote on Wednesday.
Just one year before the 2026 municipal elections, the ANC, DA, IFP and EFF were some of the parties that voted for the eThekwini council to raise the budget allocation for political party constituency allowances from R5 million to R8 million.
The EFF wrote to National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza with a request that the joint finance committee’s report on the fiscal framework is withdrawn due to what it considers a procedural illegality, and mooted litigation if their concerns are not resolved.
Principals are not allowed to deregister pregnant pupils who have been registered to write the matric exams. And schools must report teachers who impregnate schoolgirls to the police and SACE.These are some of the proposals contained in a draft document, which is being developed by a task team put together by the Department of Basic Education.
While MPs on Parliament’s finance committees were debating whether to raise taxes for South Africans, MPs on the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs all agreed political parties should be able to get more money in donations, with less transparency.