Category: News

Jubilation was the order of the day in Giyani, Limpopo, yesterday when a R4.5 billion bulk water project was unveiled. The Mopani district municipality and residents confirmed nine of the 24 intended villages were getting clean running water daily from the project. At the launch, the district confirmed the waste water treatment plant in Nandoni… Read more

A 44-year-old woman and her 12-yearold son were brutally murdered in their Northcliff cluster house last week. The bodies were discovered by a neighbour who called local firm SCP Security for assistance just after midday on 4 July. The woman had been stabbed multiple times in the back and her son was also stabbed multiple… Read more

In today’s news, MK party leader Jacob Zuma has not accepted the resignation of secretary-general Arthur Zwane, Numsa has called off a strike at Ford SA after an agreement was reached that each worker will receive R20 000, and Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says there is gross inequality in the health sector. Also, singer Zandie… Read more

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says concerns by demographic experts that the results of Census 2022 cannot be relied upon are “unfounded and misleading”. It was reacting to a report by the Centre for Actuarial Research, reported in The Citizen yesterday, in which Tom Moultrie, professor of demography at the University of Cape Town, and… Read more

Our government of national unity has the potential to usher in a dispensation of transparency and renewed confidence in the authorities. With this in mind, I have compiled a wish list for Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald. 1. It is well known that South Africa has one of the highest and most unsustainable recidivism… Read more

The fanatically loyal supporters of the England cricket team – many of whom followed their heroes around the world – came to be known as the Barmy Army because for a long time, they seemed to be backing a lost cause. These days, England cricket is back on top, or thereabouts. The country’s football fans… Read more

We must admire Dr Casper Lötter, a conflict criminologist affiliated with North-West University’s School of Philosophy, for airing his thoughts and suggestions on our pages today on how to stop repeat criminal offenders. Is that because he is an out-of-touch dreamer? No. Far from it – his ideas should be given serious consideration. He will… Read more

Department of health failures continue to haunt the public, especially the disadvantaged communities who do not have access to private health care. Recently, I was shocked when I interviewed a 29-year-old woman from KwaZulu-Natal and discovered she has been on the hip surgery waiting list for almost two years. The waiting has affected her so… Read more

‘You have liver cancer.” This is possibly the most devastating message I have ever received, but the young doctor who gave me this piece of bad news this week, didn’t look fazed at all. No sorry, nothing. Just that: “You have liver cancer.” I know everybody is here on earth temporarily, that we all have… Read more

Thousands of solemn mourners gathered in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia on Thursday to remember the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims, less two months after the United Nations established a memorial day to mark the genocide. On July 11, 1995, Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern Bosnian town — which was then a UN-protected… Read more