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PHALA PHALA D-DAY: QUESTIONS OVER GNU PARTNERS’ SILENCE
LEADER of Al Jama-ah and Deputy Minister of Social Development Ganief Hendricks has revealed that parties in the Government of National Unity (GNU) will stand by President Cyril Ramaphosa, regardless of today’s Constitutional Court ruling in the Phala...
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Call for open, competitive recruitment
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa announced the appointment of Lt-General Puleng Dimpane as Acting National Police Commissioner at a media briefing held in the Union Buildings, Pretoria yesterday. Ramaphosa was responding to the appearance this week of...
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Ambassador appointment rejected
THE MK Party has become the latest party to reject the appointment of veteran politician Roelf Meyer, who served as a key apartheid-era minister, as South Africa’s new Ambassador to the US. The main national opposition party said that while it does...
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NIGERIAN ‘KING’, CHIDIMMA FRAUD ROW
THE government has been called to investigate the immigration status of Solomon Ogbonna Eziko, a Nigerian national who was recently crowned as a traditional leader of the Igbo people in KuGompo City in the Eastern Cape, and provide a report on the...
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Environmentalists oppose Mantashe’s call to reopen refinery
ENVIRONMENTAL experts have slammed Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe’s push for the reopening of the Sapref – South Africa’s biggest crude oil refinery that shut down after the floods that devastated KwaZulu-Natal in...
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TSHWANE MMC SUSPENDED FOLLOWING MADLANGA COMMISSION REVELATIONS
ACTIONSA welcomed Tshwane Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya’s “decisive action” to suspend MMC Kholofelo Morodi pending the outcome of an investigation into the concerning allegations arising from the Madlanga Commission yesterday. “As a party with zero tolerance...
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NATIONAL SECURITY DELINQUENTS TO FACE THE MUSIC
ACTIONSA’S Dereleen James remarked that the testimonies heard by Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee regarding allegations made by SAPS KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi were anticipated as many MPs have long been aware...
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ORANGE OVERALLS FOR EX-MP SMITH
THE Johannesburg High Court has handed down a sentence of seven years’ direct imprisonment to former Member of Parliament Vincent Smith, following a plea and sentence agreement with the state. Judge Ismail accepted the plea agreement in accordance...
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OUTRAGE OVER O’SULLIVAN’S ARROGANCE
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) have called for the arrest of forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan after he walked out of Parliament’s Ad-hoc Committee probing the criminal justice system without being excused. The committee is investigating allegations...
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TSHWANE’S R20bn WASTEFUL SPLURGE
THE National Treasury’s latest State of Local Government Finances and Financial Management report has painted a bleak picture of the state of some of the country’s largest municipalities, including mounting water losses. In the report for the 2023/24...
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O’SULLIVAN ‘A BLATANT NAME DROPPER’
SOUTH Africa’s first post-apartheid national police commissioner, George Fivaz, has described controversial forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan as a “blatant name-dropper” who seeks attention by creating the impression that he is a big police...
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FACTIONAL WARS BEHIND ‘PROTECTED’ STEENHUISEN’S EXIT
AN IOL investigation has revealed that outgoing Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen repeatedly failed to pay his compulsory financial contributions to the party in 2015 – a violation of DA policy that ordinarily results in termination of...
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‘ROGUE’ COPS FACE THE MUSIC
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has accepted sweeping recommendations by the Madlanga Commission, triggering urgent criminal referrals, potential suspensions, and the formation of a special police task team to deal with rogue elements. Ramaphosa established...
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CALLS FOR STRICTER REGULATIONS
THE government has been called to enforce mandatory training and licensing for scholar transport drivers following the horrific accident that killed 14 learners in the Vaal area. Scholar transportation associations stated that, although current...
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