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Citizens comments on the Budget-Speech 2025

By Rachel Mohamed As South Africa faces challenges related to public sector wages, fiscal sustainability, and economic priorities, the upcoming Budget Speech is attracting significant attention. Citizens are eagerly awaiting Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's delivery of the budget speech today. VOC News spoke to South Africans to gather their views on what they expect from the upcoming budget speech. Yusuf Abramjee, the founder of Tax Justice SA, urged Finance Minister […]

19 February 2025

Local

THE CITY STILL NEEDS TO REGISTER OVER 2,000 SPAZA SHOPS AHEAD OF THE DEADLINE

By Rachel Mohamed The City of Cape Town has stated that it will continue working to ensure that spaza shops comply with regulations designed to protect public health and safety. Last week, the city recorded over 1,000 spaza shops. Following the tragic death of more than twenty children from consuming contaminated food, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for all spaza outlets to be registered by December 13. “We have made […]

4 December 2024

Local

SAFTU opposes South African Post Office liquidation

By Rachel Mohamed The South African Post Office is set to be liquidated within this month, and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is being tight-lipped about the details of bailouts for the state-owned enterprise. This move has sparked condemnation from trade unions, notably the South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu), which is calling for the Government to intervene immediately to save the entity and its employees. Speaking on VOC’s News […]

6 November 2024

Local

SANZAF Announces Newly Elected National Chairperson

By Rachel Mohamed Moulana Mogamat Hassiem Cassiem has been elected as the new National Chairperson of the South African National Zakah Fund (SANZAF). According to SANZAF, the election was through a transparent and structured voting process following the organization's Triennial General Meeting held on October 26th in Durban. The organization has rallied behind Moulana Mogamat Hassiem Cassiem's appointment, and it has been viewed as a positive move in building upon […]

28 October 2024

Local

The Minister of Police engages in communication with the private sector

By Rachel Mohamed Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu has engaged in discussions with private-sector security companies with speculation rife around Mchunu’s intention to establish cooperation between the public and private sectors. Speaking on VOC’s News Beat show on Tuesday, Professor Dumisani Mabunda, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Police Practice at the University of South Africa said from time to time the reshuffling of new ministers in the Portfolio of […]

8 October 2024

Local

Heritage Month: Language Diversity in South Africa with an emphasis on language and culture

By Rachel Mohamed As we continue to celebrate Heritage Month under the theme “Celebrating the lives of our heroes and heroines who laid down their lives for our freedom." VOC Journalist Rachel Mohamed provided some insight on how South Africa prides itself on 12 official languages, with a multilingual population fluent in at least two Indigenous languages, IsiZulu and IsiXhosa, regarded as the largest and most spoken language in the […]

25 September 2024

International News

President Ramaphosa’s state visit to China

By Rachel Mohamed Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit (FOCAC) which kicked off on Monday and will run until Thursday, September 5th. This visit seeks to strengthen bilateral ties between China and South Africa attempting to narrow the nation's trade deficit with the Asian state to better economic circumstances for the nations. Speaking on VOC News Beat Dr. Oscar van Heerden, a scholar of international relations, focuses on international political economy, […]

4 September 2024

News

Mom who abducted three children to CPT in SA told to have them back in Thailand by August 20

COMMUNITY A mother who abducted her three children from Thailand has until August 20 to send them back after the Supreme Court of Appeal rejected her last-ditch bid to keep them in Cape Town. The SA woman has spent two years trying to keep her 12-year-old daughter and 8-year-old twins — a boy and a girl — away from their British father, who lives in Thailand. In July 2019, a […]

7 August 2021

Local

Child murders still a major scourge in WCape

The number of children murdered in Cape Town still stands at 1,000 every year, which means on average, three children get killed per day. That’s according to a senior researcher at UCT Children’s Institute, Lucy Jamieson, unpacking the shocking statistics of child murders in South Africa. It comes in the wake of an intense search for eight-year-old Tazne Van Wyk, who disappeared in Elsies River over a week ago. While […]

18 February 2020

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