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Despite a Department of Basic Education directive that all officials and educators, including those in office- and school-based posts, must be vetted against the National Register for Sex Offenders, only 19% have been vetted nationally.
The DA is arguing that employment equity targets proposed in a new labour law would make finding a job for non-African black South Africans near impossible, but its court challenge has the makings of yet another hot potato that could possibly push the limits of the government of national unity.
While acting with impunity, Israel subjects anyone who seeks to hold it accountable for its “inhumane and unlawful actions” in Gaza to counter-measures, South Africa argued in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Tuesday.
Just a little over a month after Pastor Timothy Omotoso was acquitted on more than 30 charges of rape and human trafficking, the Nigerian televangelist is planning a massive crusade in East London next week. However, a question mark hangs over his citizenship status in South Africa.
On Tuesday in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg the testimony of a former outpatient clerk at Stanger Hospital corroborated discrepancies in the initial inquest timeline of the alleged accident. The discrepancies had been raised by a previous expert witness who led evidence in the reopened inquest of ANC leader Albert Luthuli.
Vehicle dealer and rental group Combined Motor Holdings reported a more than one quarter fall in profits for its year to end February, citing strain on its margins as consumers shied away from big-ticket items, as well as a price war among its rental competitors.
Western Cape Judge Mushtak Parker’s attempt to backtrack on his accusation that then-judge president John Hlophe had assaulted him should be rejected as “false, fanciful, ill-conceived, and spurious”, a Judicial Service Commission evidence leader has argued.
Despite a Department of Basic Education (DBE) directive that all officials and educators, including those in office- and school-based posts, must be vetted against the National Registry of Sex Offenders, only 19% nationally have been vetted.
ActionSA has filed an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act to obtain the Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s (IPID) report on the theft that took place at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm, which Police Minister Senzo Mchunu has classified as “top secret”.
A complex matter is developing in Table View, Cape Town, as a homeowner in a residential complex has sought a protection from harassment order against the chairperson of the homeowners’ association, claiming that she fears for her safety.