Year: 2020

opinion South Africa’s development is rarely ever planned with water availability in mind. This is a mistake because water is as much an economic input in development as it is an ecological imperative. The reality of South Africa with regards to water is that of a country of low rainfall in a warming world. This […]

Former Tiso Blackstar journalist Ranjeni Munusamy was last year implicated at the Zondo inquiry into state capture by a senior Hawks officer of having received dubious payments. Former journalist Ranjeni Munusamy. Picture: Twitter @RanjeniM. CAPE TOWN – Deputy President David Mabuza said that he would raise with Finance Minister Tito Mboweni his decision to appoint […]

The DA has branded the EFF as ‘instigators of violence and destruction’, adding that the utterances were incredibly hateful. The EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi outside the Senekal Magistrates Court on 16 October 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN JOHANNESBURG – The Democratic Alliance (DA) has laid a criminal complaint against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, for […]

The court has granted Sekola Matlaletsa R5,000 bail while his co-accused Skwetje Mahlamba will stay behind bars as his bid has been denied. Sekola Matlaletsa and Sekwetje Mahlamba, the two suspects accused of murdering Brendin Horner, appear at the Senekal Magistrates Court on 16 October 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN SENEKAL – The Senekal Magistrates Court […]

The party will for the first time elect new leaders thought an IT-based voting system, as the congress will take place virtually. FILE: Democratic Alliance members during the voting session on policies on at the party’s elective congress 8 April 2018. Picture: EWN DURBAN – The Democratic Alliance (DA) said that it was all systems […]

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has outlined plans to steer the province towards a better economic climate and said that the region was now joining hands with civil society and the private sector to reduce poverty and unemployment. FILE: Western Cape Premier Alan Winde. Picture: @alanwinde/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said […]

Provincial Treasurer, Parks Tau, said that the process would now follow rule 25 of the ANC constitution in dealing with the two. FILE: Former Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku addressing the media in Johannesburg during a press briefing on 17 July 2020 by the provincial command council on its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Sekwetje Mahlamba has been denied bail in the Senekal Magistrates Court, while his co-accused, Sekola Matlaletsa, was released on R5,000 bail. Sekola Matlaletsa and Sekwetja Mahlamba, two suspects accused of murdering Brendin Horner at the Senekal Magistrates court on 16 October 2020. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN SENEKAL – Lawyers for one of the accused in the […]

Dedre van Rooyen allegedly manipulated the municipality’s payroll system to loot the funds. Dedre van Rooyen is accused of stealing R3.1 million from the Newcastle Municipality. Picture: Supplied DURBAN – A municipal employee from Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal has been released on R50,000 bail after appearing in the Durban Commercial Crimes Court on fraud charges amounting […]

The minister highlighted that the industry still operated on the fringes of the formal economy and failed to comply with the country’s tax laws and labour laws intended to protect workers. Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula at the NW taxi lekgotla on Thursday, 22 October 2020. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter CAPE TOWN – Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula on […]