The justice department has been asked to get its house in order after it presented inaccurate statistics on child offenders to MPs on Wednesday.
The ANC has signed a coalition agreement with Icosa and an independent councillor to secure government in Oudtshoorn, Cape Agulhas and Kannaland.
The only way to solve the problems of housing and poverty in Cape Town was to vote for the ANC, party president Jacob Zuma a crowd in Gugulethu.
The Mbhazima Shilowa-aligned faction of Cope will meet on Monday to discuss a way forward, the secretary general of the faction said on Friday.
The proposed youth wage subsidy will not work unless the government realises unemployment is linked to education, Cosatu says.
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A suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has occurred in northern KwaZulu-Natal, the agriculture minister said on Monday.
Cope co-founder Mbhazima Shilowa will challenge an interim order barring him from Parliament, his spokesperson said on Monday.
Soweto’s Dube hostel — plagued in recent weeks by violent protests against poor service delivery — resembles a ghost town. Washing swaying in the wind is the only sign of life, along with the dank smell of urine mingled with that of burnt rubbish.
Facing extinction, vervet monkeys that have been a part of Pretoria since its establishment more than a century ago will no longer be seen roaming the area. About 60 vervet monkeys will be relocated from Garsfontein to the Dinokeng Nature Reserve near Hammanskraal, north-east of Pretoria, by May 9.
Six warders from Krugersdorp Prison appeared in the town’s magistrate’s court on Monday in connection with the deaths of three inmates over the weekend. The men are alleged to have seriously assaulted the prisoners on Saturday night after an apparent gang fight. The prisoners were taken to hospital, but died shortly afterwards.