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Pieter Groenewald, Minister of Correctional Services. (Photo: DKD/X) If the Department of Correctional Services (DKD) had a functional electronic monitoring system in place, it would not be looking for more than 29,000 missing parolees today. “The minister is not to blame. But this administration is responsible for correcting this with a credible outcome-based plan,” DA MP Janho Engelbrecht said in parliament this week about the parolees. Parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services met this week specifically to discuss this issue. “The main reason for this meeting is the missing parolees and we have to admit that if we had a…
Durban University of Technology (DUT) will rely on its 30 members to perform well in the Comrades Marathon on Sunday.The members of DUT are made up of former students, students and staff from different fields who are expected to do well in this competition which is coming back for the 99th time this year, which will start from Durban and wrap up in Pietermaritzburg.The theme of this year’s competition is Ska Fela Moya, which is Suthu – which means Endless Moya in Zuu, and is intended to encourage those who will run in it to not run out of breath.Those…
A garbage collector carries garbage bags to a garbage truck in downtown Johannesburg on November 7, 2025. (Photo: EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP) The FF Plus says the Johannesburg metro board’s proposed salary agreement of R10.3 billion with the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) is unsustainable and comes at a time when the metro is already under serious financial pressure. Franco de Lange, FF Plus councilor in the Johannesburg metro council, says the ANC-led coalition’s decision to enter into the agreement over the next two years is irresponsible given the city’s deteriorating financial condition. According to De Lange, no organization…
Concern has arisen in the leadership as well as in the community of Zimbokodwen, Kwa Makhutha, over the discovery of a large number of human bones dumped in this area. It is said that a number of bones with human heads were found in a roadside garbage dump on Monday.According to the local councillor, Mrs Thabsile Zungu, the festival was hit by a drug addict, who is said to have come across bones while digging through the rubbish, looking for something to use as usual.”When he opened the black plastic bags, he found that inside there were bones wrapped in…
(Photo: Pieter Cloete/Maroela Media) The latest economic growth figures and a credit upgrade by Fitch Ratings indicate that South Africa is slowly but surely making progress, but experts warn that the country is still far from the growth levels needed to reduce unemployment and poverty. Statistics South Africa announced that the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.5% on a quarterly basis in the first quarter. The announcement follows shortly after credit rating agency Fitch Ratings raised South Africa’s long-term credit rating from BB- to BB. Also read: GDP grows by 0.5%: SA cannot flounder like this Fitch attributed the…
The bill also aims to make AI chatbots safer by establishing a digital regulator to set safety standards.Published On 10 Jun 202610 Jun 2026The Canadian government has introduced a new digital safety bill that would ban social media for children under 16, with exemptions for platforms that meet certain safety standards, months after Australia enacted the world’s first social media ban for children.The bill, unveiled on Wednesday, also aims to make artificial intelligence chatbots safer by establishing a digital regulator to set safety standards, a government official said.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listIts introduction in parliament comes weeks…
A traditional music group known for performing wedding songs, Amaviyo, has made a comeback to music by releasing their second album Black Zuluwhich came out last month. It has been four years since the band released new music.The leader of this group in Maphetheni, Nanda, Sibonga Gcwensa said that one of the things that made them disappear for a long time before a lot of music came out was that they were still fixing a lot of things that had gone wrong with the music business.”We have had a big problem of not being able to distribute our work the…
Bill Gates at the hearing. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/AFP) Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, told US lawmakers on Wednesday that he had “never victimized anyone”, while being questioned about his connections with the late sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. Gates, one of the world’s richest people and a well-known philanthropist, appeared before the House of Representatives Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview about Epstein, the former financier who died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking for the sexual exploitation of underage girls. “At no point did I see or have any indication…
XOLANI Mabhida, Sibusiso Kubheka’s coach, revealed that the runner’s participation in this year’s Comrades Marathon will not be to fight for victory but to learn from it before setting foot in the next one. Kubheka (27) made a splash in August last year, winning the Chasing 100 100km race in Italy, making history by being the first runner in the world to record a time of 5:59:20 in this race.In an interview withOf this country on his return to this race, he went public with his call to run in Comrades for the first time in his life.Of course, this…
Grammy-winning South African singer Tyla is set to make history again as she plays a key role in the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2026, representing South African and African music at one of the biggest sporting venues in the world.The “Water” singer is scheduled to perform at the opening ceremony of the tournament in Mexico City before the opening match between South Africa and Mexico on Thursday, 11 June.FIFA has also confirmed that Tyla will sing the South African national anthem before the start of the matches, putting her on the map.For South Africans, the event has…