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All activities at the University of the Witwatersrand have been suspended for the rest of the week. Its senior executive team said late on Tuesday that it was “identifying” those “who perpetrated acts of violence on our campus today” and vowed to “take action in line with the university’s rules and the law”. The university […]
The workers have taken their case to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of demands to Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini and the presidency. “We are out there fighting for children’s rights and family rights everyday but no one hears us when we complain to our supervisors. It just goes […]
”A cop-out” and a ”short-term reaction to a crisis” is how analysts have described the government’s decision to shield poor and middle-income students from university fee increases. Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande’s promise yesterday that the state would find an estimated R2.6-billion to offset fee increases at universities did not satisfy the student campaigners. His […]
Beleaguered SABC chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng has suffered yet another court defeat. The Supreme Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed his application for leave to appeal an earlier ruling by the Cape Town High Court , which effectively set aside his permanent appointment. In May the high court dismissed with costs Motsoeneng and the broadcaster’s […]
The government wants men who rape elderly women to serve life behind bars Harsher sentences have been proposed in draft amendments to the law made public last week. One proposal is that the rape of “older persons” be treated as harshly as the rape of minors and the disabled. On November 3 last year, 21-year-old […]
There is scope for the South African Reserve Bank to keep interest rates unchanged at the end of its Monetary Policy Committee’s three-day meeting on Thursday‚ but the risk of further rate hikes this year remains‚ says Investec economist Kamilla Kaplan. She said inflation considerations coupled with weak economic growth would support an unchanged interest […]
The streets outside Mandoza’s home in Pimville‚ Soweto has been lined with cars as friends‚ family and neighbours gather to pay their respects to the late kwaito star’s family. The mood among people who have gathered outside the home that Mandoza shared with his wife and children is sombre‚ as most people express shock over […]
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