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16 Days of Activism to focus on economic empowerment

This year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence will focus on the economic empowerment of women and girls. Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Maite Nkoana-Mashabane launched the campaign in Pretoria on Tuesday.

24 Nov 2020 6AM 1 min

16 Days of Activism to focus on economic empowerment

This year’s 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence will focus on the economic empowerment of women and girls. Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Maite Nkoana-Mashabane launched the campaign in Pretoria on Tuesday.

24 Nov 2020 6AM 1 min

SAHRC: Police showed ‘great restraint’ during Brackenfell protests

Commissioner Andrew Nissen made the comments at a media briefing on Tuesday, where the commission looked at the circumstances that led to the allegations of racism allegations at the Cape Town school.

24 Nov 2020 6AM 2 min

Seven injured in Cape Town shootout

Seven people have been injured during a shootout at a Cape Town taxi rank on Monday. Police spokesperson Noloyiso Rwexana says the unknown gunmen opened fire, wounding six men and a woman.

23 Nov 2020 9AM 1 min

Zuma facing 6 month prison sentence, warns legal expert

Advocate of the High Court James Grant says former president Jacob Zuma could be handed a six-month prison sentence if he is found to have been in contempt of the commission of inquiry into state capture. The commission’s chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, announced on Monday that the commission…

23 Nov 2020 7AM 1 min

Numsa slams Mboweni's ‘reckless’ SAA tweets

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has lambasted Finance Minister Tito Mboweni for his tweets on the future of South African Airways (SAA).

23 Nov 2020 5AM 1 min

Zondo commission to lay criminal complaint against Zuma

The commission of inquiry into state capture will lay a criminal complaint against former president Jacob Zuma after he left the commission without permission on Thursday. Zuma walked out after his application for the recusal of the commission’s chair, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, was dismissed.

23 Nov 2020 4AM 1 min

Ramaphosa, G20 throws weight behind global Covid-19 vaccine access at summit

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on G20 nations to help address debt in developing countries as economies buckle under the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. He also urged affordable access to a vaccine once it is available.

21 Nov 2020 11PM 1 min

Police and Hawks investigate Fidelity robbery

National police spokesperson, Vish Naidoo, says members from various units from the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Hawks have been mobilized to investigate the robbery at a Fidelity base in the west of Pretoria in the early hours of Saturday morning .

21 Nov 2020 5AM 1 min

Ratings agencies seek urgent implementation to avoid another downgrade of the SA economy

Professor Raymond Parsons from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the North West University Business School says international ratings agencies Moody’s and Fitch have raised a red flag, warning the South African government that it needs to urgently implement policies and the growth plan to avoid further downgrades…

21 Nov 2020 4AM 1 min

Duarte: Stepping aside of implicated members ‘proving to be a dilemma’

African National Congress (ANC) deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte has admitted that it’s not easy to ask implicated members to step aside from their party positions.

20 Nov 2020 6AM 3 min

SA Weather Service warns of severe thunderstorms in Gauteng

Senior forecaster Luthando Masimini says the heavy downpours are expected to hit the province on Friday afternoon.

20 Nov 2020 1AM 1 min

Nine trucks torched in Vosloorus and Heidelberg

Gauteng police’s Mavela Masondo says they are looking for an unknown number of suspects.

20 Nov 2020 1AM 1 min

SABC delays retrenchment process by seven days

President of the Broadcasting Electronic Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) Hannes du Buisson has described the decision by the SABC Board as nothing but delaying tactics.

20 Nov 2020 12AM 1 min

Cabinet ‘satisfied’ with govt’s handling of Bushiri escape

Justice Minister Ronald Lamola says government has full confidence that the Malawian judiciary will hand over fugitive couple Shepherd and Mary Bushiri.

19 Nov 2020 7AM 1 min

'Queen of Kwaito' Mshoza dies

Kwaito star Nomasonto ‘Mshoza’ Maswanganyi has died at the age of 37.

19 Nov 2020 5AM 2 min

Nkomo-Ralehoko: Gauteng economy set to shrink by 8.4%

Gauteng’s economy is expected to shrink by a staggering 8.4% in 2020, according to the province’s Finance MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko.

19 Nov 2020 5AM 1 min

Zondo dismisses Zuma recusal application

Former president Jacob Zuma's bid to remove the chair of the commission of inquiry into state capture has been dismissed.

19 Nov 2020 4AM 2 min

Kruger Park intensifies search for missing ranger

Kruger National Park spokesperson Ike Phaahla says the K9 Unit, a SanParks helicopter and additional rangers have been roped in to search for Mashego.

19 Nov 2020 2AM 1 min

KZN Parents Association: Unfair to ask all matrics to rewrite leaked Maths exam

The parents association's Vee Gani elaborates.

19 Nov 2020 1AM 1 min