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The Gauteng education department has postponed the appointment of new office-based staff as well as teachers who applied to be promoted as heads of department, deputy principals and principals until April because of budget constraints.
The MKP continued its campaign against accountability for corruption, with its deputy leader John Hlophe suggesting that National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi was “misleading the nation” about the Guptas’ extradition.
International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola threw diplomacy out the window on Tuesday and responded angrily when he was asked whether South Africa and the ANC were “protecting its friend” Frelimo in troubled Mozambique.
Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has welcomed the number of young players who are given a chance and backed in the premier division, but has warned that to build on their progress, agents must prioritise players’ development over their personal enrichment.
Acting deputy police commissioner, Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya, has obtained an interim court order preventing South African Police Service whistleblower Patricia Morgan-Mashale from making defamatory statements about him.
The Brian Wainstein murder trial was postponed to next Monday because co-accused Andre Nel is still unwell. In the meantime, Nafiz Modack’s murder trial was postponed to Wednesday for the cross-examination of a witness who admits pretending to bribe former head of detectives Jeremy Vearey for Modack, but pocketing the money instead.
ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the independent panel that found President Cyril Ramaphosa could be impeached over the Phala Phala break-in made a “grave error” by giving credibility to former spy boss Arthur Fraser’s “fanciful” theories.
Vacant posts for a deputy principal, three heads of department, eight teachers and two administrative clerks and 17 mobile classrooms that have never been used since 2020 because of the non-delivery of furniture – these were some of the shocking findings made by a parliamentary committee on education at a school in Mpumalanga.
America has been chipping away at China’s huge lead in the global cleantech race. Trump’s return will see the US all but drop out. Bad news for the US, worse for the climate. But there are silver linings for the rest of the world, says Nick Hedley.
With some of its infrastructure decaying and no premier division club using it, the somewhat abandoned Dobsonville Stadium offered the perfect setting for Sage Stephens to take his first steps as a Bafana Bafana player at the ripe age of 33.