Category: News

Yesterday was the fifth day of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) strike at Ford South Africa’s plant in Watloo, Pretoria. Last week, Numsa members downed tools after failing to reach an agreement with the employer at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration. The union said Ford was a multinational that… Read more

Allegations against model agency boss Allessandrio Bergman are mounting as staff, former employees and associates come forward to paint an ugly picture of his alleged business practices as owner of Johannesburg model agency Sync. According to an employee who declined to be named, Bergman allegedly owes talent at his agency around R1.5 million, while staff… Read more

News today includes the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has ruled that some of the deaths at Life Esidimeni were due to negligence on the part of the province’s former Health MEC, Qedani Mahlangu. Meanwhile, police have shared the photos of two people they have obtained arrest warrants for in connection with former high jump… Read more

Limpopo premier Dr Phophi Ramathuba has set aside 300 jobs for local unemployed young men and women to maintain and repair roads in the province’s five regions for the next five years. The Dikgerekgere service delivery programme was launched yesterday. It is the brainchild of Limpopo ANC Youth League chair Tonny Rachoene, who is also… Read more

uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party leader Jacob Zuma has appointed Magasela Mzobe as head of the presidency of the party. Mzobe is a former Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) and former African National Congress Youth league (ANCYL) leader. MK party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela said Mzobe was appointed as head of presidency on Wednesday. Strengthening MK party “Comrade… Read more

As South Africans brace for significant changes that the government of national unity (GNU) is expected to bring about, we must advocate for leadership appointed according to merit rather than political affiliation. Government’s goal for the next five years should be to revitalise the economy, develop regulations that support the private sector and drive job… Read more

There were a few gags about the Irish government decision to make South Africans obtain visas for visits to their country, with some claiming it was payback for the Boks beating Ireland in the first Test. Sadly, though, this is no laughing matter and Dublin’s move is more confirmation that we cannot be trusted as… Read more

The way that the ANC’s self-assessment and disciplinary procedures work, we would expect that former Gauteng MEC for health Qedani Mahlangu – just found responsible for some of the deaths in the Life Esidimeni tragedy – would be given an ambassador’s post, or even a ministerial job. After all, many of the ruling party’s worst… Read more

There was a time in the history of South Africa when voices of the liberation movement, which included the ANC and the Pan Africanist Congress, were muzzled by the powerful National Party apartheid regime machinery – led by PW Botha and the army of his securocrats. This was in the ’80s, decades after the Sharpeville… Read more

I find the first 100 days of any government department cringeworthy. The hype, hustle and bustle that created expectations of service delivery, dissipating as if they never were. The promises to investigate contracts are not fulfilled. Every minister of justice uses gender-based violence as their public relations tool. Women want to believe this to be… Read more