Year: 2020

Former President Jacob Zuma is insisting that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo recuse himself before he returns to the state capture commission to testify. FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. Picture: AFP JOHANNESBURG – Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has responded to former President Jacob Zuma’s claims that he should recuse himself from the state […]

The minister was responding to questions in the National Assembly on Thursday as part of the governance cluster. FILE: Minister in the Presidency, Jackson Mthembu. Picture: GCIS CAPE TOWN – Government has failed to conduct lifestyle audits on Cabinet members more than two years after saying that it would. Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu […]

The party’s former parliamentary chief whip, Douglas Gibson, told Eyewitness News that Ntuli has contested too early and that the DA must elect Steenhuisen, whom he views as matured and experienced. Mbali Ntuli officially announced her decision to run for the leadership role of the Democratic Alliance. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN. DURBAN – Former Democratic Alliance […]

Earlier on Thursday, the lawyer for Malema told the Randburg Magistrates Court that colonel Johannes Venter did not bother to look for the permit on the EFF leader’s car before he stopped them at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral. EFF leader Julius Malema outside the Randburg Magistrates Court on Thursday, 29 October 2020. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey/EWN RANDBURG […]

The Public Servants Association (PSA) said that Mboweni was making announcements in Parliament which are supposed to be tabled in the bargaining forum. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his Medium-Term Budget Policy Speech in Parliament on 28 October 2020 in Cape Town. Picture: GCIS JOHANNESBURG – The Public Servants Association (PSA) said that workers were […]

A study conducted by the NDA and the University of Johannesburg has found that policy documents intended to eradicate poverty were not in short supply. FILE: A homeless man from Doornfontein who is physically challenged struggles to lift some of his belongings which he will take to a shelter in Hillbrow. Picture: EWN JOHANNESBURG – […]

Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has warned his lawyers in his assault case that if they did not win his case, they should be worried about their careers. FILE: Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema addresses supporters after appearing in the Randburg Magistrates Court on 13 October 2020. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter RANDBURG – […]

The higher the debt to GDP ratio rises, the less likely a country is able to pay down its debt and its risk of defaulting increases, with potentially ruinous consequences. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivers his medium-term budget policy statement on 28 October 2020. Image: @tito_mboweni/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has told […]

The women, who are from the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), fell ill on Monday. JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng police have opened an inquest docket after the bodies of two women were found at their student residences after they mixed alcohol and cough syrup. The women, who are from the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), fell […]

Douglas Gibson said that Helen Zille was well organised and intelligent but she needed to keep quiet about matters outside of the portfolio she may occupy going forward. FILE: Democratic Alliance Federal Council chair Helen Zille. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN. JOHANNESBURG – As Helen Zille seeks a mandate from Democratic Alliance (DA) members to continue as […]