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The Minister of Higher Education, Mr. Buti Manamela, PROMISES that the benefits of students will not be affected after he placed under the control of the National Students’ Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS).Manamela, who announced this move yesterday afternoon, said that he has put the fund under a regulator so that there will be stability in it. This follows the sudden resignation of two members of the board that controls the fund, including the acting chairman, Dr Mugwena Maluleke, who said she resigned because she wanted to focus on her studies.”I decided to put NSFAS under the administrator. This decision was…

Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – With a weary expression, Saja arranges her few belongings inside the tent her fiance, Mohammed, has prepared for their wedding in just a few days.There are two thin mattresses instead of a proper bed, a small cooking corner fashioned from wood and tarpaulin, and a makeshift bathroom that Mohammed also built from scraps of wood and plastic sheets.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe couple, Saja al-Masri, 22, and Mohammed Ahliwat, 27, got engaged a year ago while their families were displaced. They are still living in a camp in Deir el-Balah in central…

The Beitbrug border wire. (Photo: Phill Magakoe/AFP)Deur Tania Broughton, GroundUp The Constitutional Court refused to hear appeals by two construction companies against a special tribunal ruling that they must pay back all profits they made from the Beit Bridge border fence project.The country’s highest court said the appeals by Profteam CC and Caledon River Properties (trading as Magwa Construction) did not affect the court’s jurisdiction. The verdict finally brings an end to a protracted court process.The R40 million contract was awarded for the construction of a 40 km long razor wire fence on the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe.…

SHIPPED to IFP, a recorded speech has been leaked which is believed to be that of a member of the Legislature party who is heard inciting the beating of his colleagues in a conversation where he was talking to a woman who is heard swearing that she will never wear a t-shirt with the face of the party leader, Mr. Velenkosini Hlabisa.The recorded speech, which is believed to be that of a member of the Legislative Assembly who is also the chairman of the youth wing of the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal, Mr. Mncedisi Maphisa, has caused a stir within the…

Fadiel Adams, leader of the National Colored Congress, was arrested on Thursday. (Photo: Fadiel Adams/Facebook)Fadiel Adams, leader of the National Colored Congress (NCC) and a member of parliament, has been arrested and is believed to be on his way to KwaZulu-Natal.Adams is accused of interfering with the police investigation into the assassination of Sindiso Magaqa at the time. Magaqa, a former secretary-general of the ANC’s youth league, died in September 2017, after he was shot in Umzimkhulu in KwaZulu-Natal in July that year.Adams was handcuffed at his home in the Pelican Park parliamentary village on Tuesday afternoon.His arrest came shortly…

AN ACTRESS, Rosemary Zimu, says that even though she is married, being in a drama about trauma in love has opened her eyes, as the drama that started yesterday Strings Attachedwhich is shown at 8 pm on Mzansi Magic.In this play, Rosemary plays the main role of Lethabo, a woman who is in love with a man who tortures her by making her do things she doesn’t like.Rosemany said that the role of Xolani played by Melusi Mbhele shows how a woman can find herself in love with a lying man who does everything to make it look like he…

(File photo: AFP) The Iranian community in South Africa says serious human rights violations by Iran ‘s government continues, while the international community remains silent. The South African government’s lack of response was particularly sharply criticized. “We ask for moral clarity… Silence, in moments like this, is not neutral.” Some members of the Iranian community in South Africa sharply condemned the Iranian regime and at the same time accused the South African government of “looking the other way” while serious human rights violations were being committed by the Iranian regime. According to a media statement by Shervin Ghorbani, a member…

Members of Parliament WANT answers to reports that they are being paid huge amounts of money by suspended government employees.Groups including the DA and the EFF, want the Minister of Public Works and Administration, King Mzamo Buthelezi, to explain the reports that these workers are paid R800 million, per year.The Parliamentary committee wants Buthelezi to explain what he called the exploitation of taxpayers’ money.The DA said that they have written to the Chairman of the Parliamentary committee, because they want Buthelezi to explain in detail about the money.It complained that a lot of money is being spent by the government…

THEY narrate the incident which they said they received from Prasa company security guards on trains traveling between Mlaza and the city of Thekwini.Tell them It is a country that it is now in my throat to be beaten like little children.They say this depresses them and makes them realize that they are not respected on the trains, rather they are taken lightly.The first one to talk toOf this country It was Mr. Khanyisani Ndlela who said that Prasa security guards had been threatening to eat him raw for the past few weeks, accusing him of causing noise on the…

Stock Photo (Photo: Shutterstock) The police in Mokopane are investigating a case of robbery after a 68-year-old woman was allegedly robbed by suspects posing as police officers. The incident took place on Tuesday around 10:00 at the corner of Thabo Mbeki and Retief Streets in Mokopane. Col. Malesela Ledwaba, police spokesperson in Limpopo, says the woman was approached by unknown suspects who pretended to be police officers. During the interaction, the suspects apparently applied an unknown substance to the woman, after which she became disoriented. “The victim was then driven away in a vehicle under false pretenses and forced to…