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Non profit organisation, Corruption Watch has released its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) which shows that South Africa's public sector corruption perceptions have dropped 2 points since last year, with a score of 41. The country's current ranking is the lowest since 2012, with the report highlighting the inability of governments worldwide to combat corruption. Sub-Saharan Africa has show...

African National Congress President, Cyril Ramaphosa says he is not worried about the possible impact that the suspension of former President, Jacob Zuma may have on the governing party. Ramaphosa's remarks follow an announcement by party secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula that the party's National Executive Committee had invoked one of the rules of the its constitution to suspend Zuma after he ann...

PwC's South African Economic Outlook 2024 report has outlined major challenges facing businesses in the country. The report has outlined how financial troubles coupled with the growing demands on the state and available fiscal resources have placed pressure on the government. With structural challenges like load-shedding, high levels of unemployment and the scourge of crime , South Africa is seein...

The Judicial Conduct Tribunal hearings on a complaint lodged by Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo against suspended Judge Nomonde Mngqibisa-Thusi will be heard in-camera. Mngqibisa-Thusi is appearing before the tribunal and faces possible impeachment if she is found guilty of the allegations of gross incompetence and gross incapacity, leveled against her. Today the Tribunal is set to call thr...

A report released by the South African Human Rights Commission and the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities Rights Commission has found that the 2021 unrest was racially-driven between Black and Indian community members. The two organisations say investigations into widespread looting and violence began in KwaZulu-Natal and spr...

A clause that protects electricity end-users from debt squabbles between power utility Eskom and municipalities should be included in the electricity regulation amendment Bill. This is according to some residents of the Free state who made submissions to the portfolio committee on mineral resources and energy, which will be completing public hearings on Monday. Free State residents have expressed...

The Coal-Face with Martin Creamer, publishing editor of Engineering News and Mining Weekly. 1. Australians are investing in a new vanadium mine in Limpopo. 2. The revival of copper mining in the Northern Cape this week received yet another positive nudge forward. 3. South Africa's IDC opted to fund a manganese project in Botswana rather than a similar one in our Mbombela. Why?  

The International Court of Justice is set to hand down a preliminary ruling this afternoon on a request from South Africa that Israel immediately suspend its military operations in Gaza. The petition to the Court for provisional measures in a case that alleges that Israel's military actions in Gaza, which started after the Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7th, amounted to acts of gen...

Some medical organizations and associations are calling on the South African government to regulate the use of hubbly bubbly, vaping and other unregulated tobacco products, stating concerns over marketing tactics that promote the use of these products as a safe option to smoking cigarettes. They say it is concerning that hubbly bubbly and vaping are widely promoted and marketed as less harmful whe...

Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor will represent  South Africa at the Hague on Friday when the International Court of Justice delivers judgment in the case between South Africa and Israel. Last year, South Africa filed a lawsuit with the ICJ requesting an injunction against Israel on the grounds that Israel's attacks on Gaza violate the Genocide Convention. Here...

The vetting processes used by the county's authorities have once again been thrust intro the spotlight following the court appearance of Nhlanhla Sizani, a 24-year-old alleged imposter who deceived South Africa's top security cluster, NatJoints, into believing he was a UN representative. Sizani reportedly received briefings from NatJoints on SA's readiness for the 2021 local government elections w...

Suspended Judge Anna Makhubele has finally taken the stand in the misconduct probe before the Judicial Conduct Tribunal. She is appearing before the body after a formal complaint was laid against her by civil society organisation, #UniteBehind in 2019. The organisation alleges that the Judge violated the separation of powers principle by being both a Judge and chairperson of state-owned company, P...

The trial-within-trial in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case has resumed in the High Court in Pretoria. Yesterday, lead investigator in the case, Bongani Gininda testified that communication records between singer, Kelly Khumalo and her sister, Zandi Khumalo show that Kelly wanted to get rid of Meyiwa, as early as the year 2013. During his testimony, Gininda also revealed that two of the accused had imp...

Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga has tabled before Parliament, her department's policy on the prevention and management of learner pregnancy in schools. The policy aims to, amongst other things, prohibit the expulsion of pregnant learners from schools and to provide them with pre and post-natal support. According to research conducted by Statistics South Africa, 4 percent of learners betw...

The Marshalltown Fire Justice Campaign has welcomed the confession and arrest of a suspect, in connection with the Usindiso building fire in Johannesburg, where 77 people were killed last year. The suspect was on Tuesday after he confessed before the Commission of inquiry into the Usindiso building fire this week. Campaign  coordinator, Mametlwe Sebei says the arrest does not absolve the City of J...

While some opposition parties have united under the multi-party charter, political parties like the Black First Land First and liberation movement and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania have instead headed down to Nkandla to meet with former President Jacob Zuma ahead of the general elections. This is as the black minority parties intend on uniting and consolidating their leftist vote ahead of...

The School Governing Body from the Sidlamafa Secondary School in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga says it remains frustrated at the continuing closure of the school. No learning and teaching has been taking place at the schools since the reopening of the school term last week. Parents want the department to build a new school for learners or at least provide mobile classrooms in the interim. SGB chairperson, P...

Transport Minister, Sindisiwe Chikunga has announced that a total of 1,427 people were killed in road crashes across the country over the 2023 festive season. She noted that most crashes took place between 7pm and 10pm with fatalities most recorded on Sundays. Chikunga elaborates...

KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial secretary, Bheki Mtolo says the provincial executive committee in the province has resolved to immediately expel ANC members found to be taking part in or associating themselves with other political parties contesting the 2024 elections. Mtolo says these members would be presumed to have already left the party or voluntarily resigned themselves. Mtolo was addressing th...

The cross-examination of the lead investigator in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case is continuing in the High Court in Pretoria. Brigadier Bongani Gininda has been testifying in the trial- within-a-trial as the defence team challenges the admissibility of confession statements of some of the accused. Five men are on trial for gunning down the Bafana Bafana captain in October 2014. A witness statement t...

Fuel Consumers remain in limbo over the source of contaminated diesel that has been found in at least 70 filling stations across the country. According to the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, the watered-down diesel is allegedly mixed with illuminating paraffin. This is prompted the Automobile Association to express great concern, adding that it may be possible that petrol stations are...

Inflation is expected to decline further after slowing to five-point-five percent in November 2023. This comes as Statistics South Africa prepares to release the consumer price inflation figure this week.  The Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee is also expected to make a rates announcement later this week, while the producer price inflation numbers for December are also due out this week.  S...

Disgruntled scholar transport providers in Mpumalanga have halted their operations. They are accusing the Public Works Roads and Transport Department of failing to adhere to its commitment to increase their annual payment by 5%. The department is also accused of failing to pay some operators following an increase of the number of pupils they transport. SABC reporter, Mthobisi Mkhaliphi has more.

The Gauteng Department of Social Development has placed some officials on precautionary suspension following an investigation into a multimillion-rand grant. Last week an online publication GroundUp, revealed that over R114-million had been given to two skills development organisations in a year in which funding to other sectors including the elderly and community care has been cut. The two non-pr...

The cross examination of Brigadier Bongani Gininda has resumed as the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues. The trial resumed in the High court in Pretoria. It was adjourned last year after advocate Thulani Mngomezulu for accused 1 & 2 was unable to proceed due to ill health. Five men are currently on trial for the soccer star's 2014 murder. SABC reporter, Pearl Magubane filed this report.