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Newly appointed SAHUC President says service delivery is a priority

By Aneeqa du Plessis The South African Hajj and Umrah Council (SAHUC) has announced the election of a new president, Hafith Moaaz Casoo, this comes after the body held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Durban at the weekend. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Monday morning, Casoo expressed his gratitude at the appointment and paid homage to his predecessors. “We first and foremost praise the Almighty, as this is […]

today19 September 2023

Local

Talk is cheap, analyst warns new Electricity Minister

Energy analyst Chris Yelland says there is a lot of pressure on the newly appointed Electricity Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, as he is expected to focus on solving the power crisis at Eskom. President Cyril Ramaphosa named Ramokgopa as South Africa’s new Electricity Minister during his Cabinet reshuffle at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Monday evening. He says the state of disaster will allow the new Electricity minister to exclude […]

today7 March 2023

Local

SCA ruling is ‘an exercise in cruelty and degrading punishment,’ says Zuma foundation

LOCAL The Jacob Zuma Foundation has criticised the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling that the former president must go back to jail. The SCA on Monday dismissed with costs Zuma’s appeal against the setting aside of his medical parole by the Pretoria high court. The court ruled the decision to grant Zuma medical parole last year against the advice of the specialist Medical Parole Advisory Board was unlawful. LISTEN […]

today24 November 2022

International

Lebanon Parliament fails again to choose president

The Lebanese Parliament, on Thursday, failed for the third time to elect a new president, bringing the country closer to a political vacuum. Out of the Parliament's 128 parliamentarians, 119 attended the plenary session for half an hour on Thursday. Election rules require a quorum of two-thirds of members of the deeply divided Parliament so that no party or coalition can impose its choice. Source: Middle East Monitor 

today22 October 2022

Local

‘We will not allow the alliance to split,’ Ramaphosa vows after heckling of Mantashe at Cosatu congress

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to mend the seemingly severed ties between the ruling party and its alliance partner Cosatu. He said the alliance, which includes the SACP, was too big to fail as it had been built on the blood of those who had come before them. Cracks in the relationship between the two alliance partners played out in public during the week when workers prevented ANC national […]

today2 October 2022

Local

President Ramaphosa wants urgent solutions to the electricity crisis

LOCAL President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers remarks at the official Opening of the Sandvik Khomanani Facility in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni. The Presidency says President Cyril Ramaphosa wants urgent solutions to South Africa’s protracted electricity crisis. Reports say some major announcements related to the crisis are expected to be made in the Cabinet meeting which Ramaphosa will chair on Wednesday. The power utility has ramped up stages of rolling blackouts, which reached […]

today21 September 2022

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Presidency given 72 hours to address concerns of unemployed social workers

LOCAL The Presidency has been given 72 hours in which to assess and address the concerns of unemployed social workers. Scores of them marched to the Presidency at the Union Buildings demanding jobs and R7 000 monthly stipend, while still searching for jobs. They say some of them graduated more than 10 years ago after funding their tertiary education, while others were offered government scholarships to pursue studies in the […]

today31 August 2022

Local

Ramaphosa to outline plans to address Eskom’s rolling blackouts

The Presidency has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa will make an announcement in a matter of days on the government’s emergency plans to address the country’s increasing rolling blackouts. In his recent weekly newsletter, Ramaphosa acknowledged that the government needed to act boldly in addressing the country’s energy crisis. He admitted that there were no easy solutions but said the government was committed to exploring several opportunities to ensure that enough […]

today14 July 2022

International

Hamas, UN envoy discuss situation in occupied territories

Head of Hamas' Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, yesterday discussed the situation in the occupied territories with UN Secretary-General's Middle East Envoy, Tor Wennesland, Hamas said in a statement on its website. During a call, Haniyeh briefed Wennesland on "the recent Israeli practices in the occupied West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, pointing out targeted assassinations of Palestinians, the latest of which took place in Jenin, where Israeli occupation forces shot […]

today6 April 2022

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