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Schreiber forges ahead with initiative to deport undocumented foreigners
Home affairs Minister Leon Schreiber says in the coming year, his department will intensify inspections at restaurants, spaza shops, farms and mines by over 50% and take action – including deportations – against people illegally employed. The initiative was started under his predecessor, Aaron Motsoaledi, who earlier this year called for harsher sanctions against business…
School fire: Parents want their children back in class
Afire that destroyed five classrooms at the Noordgesig Secondary School in Soweto last month has been blamed for just 25 of its Grade 8 pupils passing exams. The school governing body (SGB) says the fire also affected the administration block but the damage has yet to be repaired. Pupils and parents protested outside the school…
Polokwane water project is finally ready
The long-waited Seshego water treatment plant which fuelled 99% of water protest marches in Polokwane is finally complete, the council said yesterday. Construction work on the plant began in 2019 and lasted for four years. The council said it was busy with titivations and testing of the plant this year. Polokwane mayor John Mpe said:…
Daily news update: EFF says will return money if illicit | Govt tightens job checks | Toddler dies after tooth extraction
In today’s news, former EFF national spokesperson Dali Mpofu said the party will pay back ill-gotten donations, the Department of Home Affairs said it is increasing its inspections of farms and restaurants to battle illegal employment, and Free State health MEC Monyatso Mahlatsi called for calm after a four-year-old girl died in hospital after a…
Green building law: Owners who do not register face jail time or fine
Nonresidential building owners risk five years’ imprisonment or a fine of R5 million if they do not register for an energy performance certificate. The South African National Energy Development Institute (Sanedi) under the directive of the department of mineral resources and energy (DMRE), has set a deadline of the end of next year for nonresidential…
ActionSA wants probe into Lily Mine tragedy
More than eight years after the Lily Mine tragedy, ActionSA has appealed to the National Assembly to investigate the tragedy, which claimed three lives of miners who were trapped in a container after the ground collapsed. With the power of attorney granted by the families of Pretty Nkambule, Yvonne Mnisi and Solomon Nyirenda, ActionSA is…
The legal arena is not transformed yet
People of colour and women are still not reaching career pinnacles in the broader legal profession in numbers that allow us to say the system has been transformed. Despite the many legal requirements in place to ensure more diversity across the economy and despite the increase in black and female law graduates over the past…
Rwanda stands out despite rot
It seems a foregone conclusion that Paul Kagame will be elected again as president of Rwanda – yet his apparent “president for life” status will not attract comment from those who regard Rwanda as an African success story. Kagame, leader of the erstwhile Rwanda Patriotic Front, has been de facto leader of the country since…
What will actually save ailing SAA
Although the late and often unlamented public enterprises minister, Pravin Gordhan, has exited the government building, with multiple parastatals crashing and burning in the background, the national airline, South African Airways (SAA), is still parked on the apron, begging bowl in hand. This after the questionable transaction where SAA would have been acquired by the…
Dishonour in parliament is exposed
After an eventful week in which a leaked affidavit detailing how the looting of the VBS Mutual Bank dominated the headlines, South Africans were left in no doubt about the moral compass of the people they elected to craft the laws of the land and lead the country to a better future. Before VBS scandal…