The newly elected Gauteng Provincial Executive Committee members include former Presidential Spokesperson Khusela Diko and former Health MEC in Gauteng Bandile Masuku. They were both implicated in the multi-million rand Personal Protective Equipment tender scandal in 2020. Both of them lost their government positions but were reinstated to the Provincial Executive Committee after disciplinary processes. The […]
South Africa will probably be hit by Stage 4 load shedding until Thursday. Power outages may continue for the next ten days, as Eskom warns that it will take weeks to recover from an unlawful strike. After long delays, Koeberg’s unit 2 was expected to come online by the end of July and alleviate pressure on […]
South Africa is preparing steps to accelerate an increase in electricity supply after state power utility Eskom implemented record blackouts. The government is consulting on the measures and will announce a “comprehensive set of actions” in the coming days on how it intends to tackle power outages, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday in his […]
Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane will face Parliament’s inquiry into her fitness to hold office. Mkhwebane has challenged the legitimacy of this process to no avail. The hearing will kick off on Monday with witness testimony before we hear from Mkhwebane herself. Full details on eNCA
Close to a quarter (22%) of the 165 059 teaching and managerial staff in the Early Childhood Development (ECD) sector do not have any formal training or qualification, underpinning the enormity of the sector’s challenges, the country’s first-ever census has shown. It is not all doom and gloom, however, as the ECD 2021 Census conducted […]
A case of monkeypox has been reported in Limpopo, bringing the number of confirmed cases in South Africa to three. On Sunday, Limpopo Health MEC, Dr Phophi Ramathuba, said her province’s first case was confirmed by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases. The confirmed case is that of a 42-year-old male tourist from Switzerland who […]