Author: staff
The original grants of Pepfar-funded organisations who are funded through the Centres for Disease Control have been reinstated. This is because a federal judge enforced a temporary restraining order blocking US President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants.
After a seven-year occupation of a section of the Union Buildings lawn, the Department of Public Works says the remaining members of a Khoisan camp responded to their eviction by crying out to their ancestors – and offering marijuana joints to officials.
Multiple murder-accused Nafiz Modack spent his first day on the stand in the Charl Kinnear murder trial laying the ground for what he alleges was a malicious plot against him by his rivals in the nightclub security business and high-ranking police officers.
After an unprecedented two weeks of aid cuts by the United States government that left HIV programmes and research efforts across the world reeling, the Trump administration took the drastic step of freezing aid to South Africa in an executive order on 7 February.
AmaZulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini “acted beyond the scope of his powers” in suspending members of the Ingonyama Trust Board in December 2024, according to a parliamentary legal opinion sought by the Portfolio Committee on Land Reform and Rural Development.
The family of Sibusiso Sithebe, who was murdered by his ex-girlfriend as part of a scam to fake the death of her new husband and claim insurance, have been left so financially destitute that they cannot afford the R70 a day to attend the killers’ sentencing.
Namibia’s central bank chief warned that escalating tensions between the US and South Africa could destabilise its economy, citing the close ties it has with the two nations and the vulnerability of the Namibian dollar, which is pegged to the rand.
The ANC appears to be dilly-dallying in implementing its decision to “reconfigure” its KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng Provincial Executive Committees (PECs), and the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) has failed to meet for weeks now.
MK Party president Jacob Zuma’s “joke” about the party being run through WhatsApp, “justifiable” annoyance in the party over party secretary-general Floyd Shivambu’s “arrogance”, and MKP MP Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla “incompetence”, these are some of the themes highlighted by Zuma’s incumbent private secretary, Isaac Leshona
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development and the National Prosecuting Authority did not endorse DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach’s private member’s bill for the establishment of a Chapter 9 body to deal with high-level corruption.