Category: News

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said he was not concerned at the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency in the United States, despite indications his administration could be more sympathetic to the Kremlin. A Trump victory in the US November elections would put into question Washington’s continued support for Ukraine as the country struggles… Read more

Pakistan’s government will seek to ban the political party of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, the information minister said Monday, days after twin court decisions that favoured the former leader. Former cricket star Khan was ousted in 2022, before launching a comeback campaign in which he criticised Pakistan’s powerful generals and drew massive crowds onto… Read more

Rival students in Bangladesh clashed on Monday leaving at least 100 people injured, as demonstrators opposing quotas for coveted government jobs battled counter-protesters loyal to the ruling party, police said. Police and witnesses said hundreds of anti-quota protesters and students backing the ruling Awami League party battled for hours on Dhaka University campus, hurling rocks, fighting… Read more

On Monday, Parliament scrutinised the Department of Transport’s proposed budget as MPs voiced their concerns about the state of the public transport system. Members of the Portfolio Committee on Transport debated on the department’s annual performance plan and budget for the 2024/225 financial year. The Department of Transport and its entities have been allocated a… Read more

Millions of Rwandans were voting in presidential and parliamentary elections on Monday, with the African nation’s leader Paul Kagame widely expected to cruise to victory and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. Rwanda’s de facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame faces only two challengers after several… Read more