By Odwa Bafana Mkentane Responding to allegations made by institutions protesting students, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) spokesperson Lauren Kansley says the protest is about the SRC election period because the issues raised are conflated. A group of CPUT students marched from CPUT District Six campus and through the
By Odwa Bafana Mkentane Operations at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) campuses are on stand still as students are staging a shutdown over various concerns, including the institution’s proposed 2027 financial plan. On Tuesday morning, a group of students staged a march from the University’s District Six campus, making
Advocacy groups say they are hopeful that an upcoming Supreme Court of Appeal hearing could improve access to the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant for people who have previously been excluded. The state is appealing a High Court ruling that declared several SRD grant regulations unconstitutional and invalid. These
Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has gazetted the first two sets of regulations under the BELA Act, with the public given until 5 September to submit written comments. The regulations deal with school admissions and capacity and are aimed at guiding the implementation of changes introduced by the Basic Education
Police have dealt a blow to drug dealing in Mitchells Plain after arresting a 55-year-old woman and seizing drugs worth an estimated R882,000 in Tafelsig on Thursday. SAPS spokesperson Thembakazi Mpendukana said officers acted on information about drugs allegedly being sold from a house in Winterhoek Street. “Upon their arrival
Former Eskom contractor Michael Lomas has been convicted on 34 counts of corruption after entering into a plea and sentence agreement with the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) over his role in the R1.4 billion Kusile Power Station corruption case. IDAC spokesperson Henry Mamothame said the
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has opened a theft case against a former board member accused of misappropriating laptops intended for under-resourced schools in the Eastern Cape. According to NSFAS, the former board member, who led the organisation’s delegation during the Eastern Cape Donation Drive in March 2026,
By Odwa Bafana Mkentane NAPTOSA has called for the Department of Education to ensure that they send out a message to say nobody is welcome to march into a school. This comes after the March movement, which has called for teaching posts to be reserved only for South Africans during
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved 20 billion CFA francs (approximately R577 million) to support Senegal’s public finance reforms as the country works to address a growing debt crisis. The funding is intended to improve domestic revenue collection, strengthen financial transparency and advance structural reforms aimed at restoring confidence
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
