4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (497+ words) MBOMBELA — Employers across Mpumalanga are facing intensified workplace inspections this week as the Department of Employment and Labour checks whether businesses are complying with rules governing wages, working hours, employment contracts and workplace safety. The province wide blitz is running…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (405+ words) PRETORIA — President Cyril Ramaphosa is heading to India this weekend with South Africa seeking more trade, greater investment in African infrastructure and stronger support for industrialisation as an expanded BRICS grouping confronts growing geopolitical divisions. BRICS now comprises Brazil, China,…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (869+ words) Parliament’s Section 89 impeachment committee has resolved to oppose two court applications challenging its decision to withdraw the recommendation of Advocate Thandazani Madonsela SC as evidence leader. The committee also agreed to delay the appointment of a replacement until the legal…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (521+ words) RUSTENBURG — More than 1,100 workers and contractors face an uncertain future at Sibanye Stillwater’s Kwezi platinum shaft near Rustenburg after the mining group began a formal restructuring process that could bring a 24 year mining operation to an end as economically viable…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (453+ words) PRETORIA — More than 55 000 people in South Africa have received the new twice yearly HIV prevention injection Lenacapavir, just three months after the government began its rollout in what has become one of the country’s most significant additions to HIV prevention…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (350+ words) PRETORIA — President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended South Africa and the Southern African Development Community’s condolences to Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan following the death of her husband, Hafidh Ameir Hassan, at the age of 71. Hassan died on Monday while receiving…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (420+ words) JOHANNESBURG – Nine Mangaung municipal contracts ranging from police vehicles and a fire truck to corporate gifts and catering are heading under the microscope, while investigators have also been authorised to examine a Gauteng Health tender for voluntary medical male circumcision…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (298+ words) CAPE TOWN – President Cyril Ramaphosa returns to the National Assembly on Tuesday for questions from MPs at a time when Parliament is dealing with municipal failures, South Africa’s international standing and the continuing fallout from allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police…...

3+ week, 3+ hour ago   (632+ words) JOHANNESBURG – The ANC has made an unusually direct admission heading into the 4 November local government elections: it has failed in areas where it governed, made mistakes and struggled to implement some of the very policies it now wants voters to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (260+ words) De Bruyn, who was only 18 when she led 20,000 women against the apartheid pass laws, returned to the same steps to condemn the rise of gender-based violence, corruption, and systemic inequality. She noted that while the marchers of 1956 fought to end…...