14 August 2018

Roodepoort, Johannesburg Roodepoort Rugby Club (RRC) has been informed of the outcome and decision of the Golden Lions Rugby Union Disciplinary Committee (GLRU DC) decision regarding the incident that took place on Wednesday 25 April 2018 during the match between RRC U21 and Wanderers U21.

13 August 2018

Parliament now appears to starting on a process of dealing with a set of recommendations that will several of the Chapter Nine institutions like the Commission for Gender Equality and the Human Rights Commission being merged into one group – Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Lechesa Tsenoli joins Stephen Grootes in the line for more on this.

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Source: SAFM

13 August 2018

Inadequate sanitation and lack of water supply in the Free State will this week come under the spotlight when parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriation conducts an oversight inspection in areas within the Mangaung and Setsoto municipalities.

11 August 2018

Cape Town - Allegations have surfaced of how an increasing number of farmers in the province use equity schemes to illegally benefit from black economic empowerment.

8 August 2018

JOHANNESBURG- Continuing mine deaths and corporates that flout laws then pay fines were some of the issues brought to the fore at the recent dialogue of Business Accountability for Human Rights.

8 August 2018

Nurses uniforms may soon be replaced by less conventional outfits such as pyjamas and traditional regalia.
This was the warning issued by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) after six of the nine provincial health departments failed to pay nurses their uniform allowance.

7 August 2018

The Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (DENOSA) would like to warn both government in many provinces and the public about the looming chaos in hospitals and clinics if many provinces continue to prolong the non-payment of Uniform Allowance to nurses, which should have been paid in April this year already.

05 August 2018

For the past week academic activities at the Limpopo-based university have been cancelled as students held protests. The protests were centered around the fact that students had not received their funding from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. (NSFAS)
UPDATE: Makumbi Khathutshelo, the secretary-general of the Student Representative Council (SRC) told The Daily Vox that most students had still not received their allowances and that only around 10-15% of students have received them. During a mass meeting held, students decided they would continue striking until the allowances had been paid out. These allowances include NSFAs, Funza Lushaka and other bursaries.

06 August 2018

Sources at UCT claim the academic’s suicide was linked to the university’s alleged resistance to his efforts to transform his faculty
The death of University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Bongani Mayosi has again brought up a debate about transformation at universities.
On Thursday concerned academics and the Black Academic Caucus at UCT called for an inquiry into circumstances surrounding Mayosi’s suicide, stating that black academics, staff and students were marginalised.

03 August 2018

Bo Kaap residents are expected to hold a public meeting on Monday after property development company Blok withdrew an interdict application that prevented activists and residents from going anywhere near its building site in Lion street, where a 12 storey apartment complex is being built.The community of the Bo-Kaap were interdicted from interfering with the work of a developer trying to demolish the St Monica’s Maternity Hospital earlier this year. Judge Robert Henney granted the interdict while Bo-Kaap residents represented themselves against the interdict sought by Blok developers.