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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Call for Nominations Open: 2025 Greening the Future Awards

Mail & Guardian opens nominations for the 2025 Greening the Future Awards

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Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.
COMPANIES AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMMISSION

Service providers challenge Gauteng premier over missing tender records in R9bn school feeding scheme

In their letter to Panyaza Lesufi, service providers outline serious irregularities in the National School Nutrition Programme tender process

  • Umamah Bakharia
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Sections 36 to 40 of the Act require every health establishment, health agency and health personnel providing prescribed services to obtain a certificate of need before they may operate. (Paul Botes)

Solidarity challenges NHI’s ‘certificate of need’ at Constitutional Court

The court reserved judgment on the certificate of need, which requires state approval for health practitioners and facilities to operate

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President Cyril Ramphosa. (David Harrison)
ANC

Ramaphosa grilled in parliament on US tariffs, Postbank and Iran

The president said the government would never go ‘on bended knee’ to get the best deal in ongoing trade discussions with the United States

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4 min read
Toxic mine waste in Zambia’s Kabwe region. Photo: 2024 Juliane Kippenberg/Human Rights Watch.
CHITOFU GENERAL DEALERS

South African company accused of fuelling toxic lead crisis in Zambia

Human Rights Watch has found that the lead-contaminated waste in Kabwe, Zambia, puts residents health at risk

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4 min read
ADVERTISEMENTS

Retailers target 26.5 million SA gamers through mobiles and esports

By the third quarter of 2023, about 92% of South African internet users were gaming across various devices

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4 min read
The increase in learners is exacerbated by people relocating to Gauteng, and private-public partnerships are required to address overcrowding. File photo
BASIC EDUCATION

Gauteng needs 200 more schools, says education MEC Chiloane

During the 2023-24 financial year, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape only built one school each

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3 min read
Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)
DA

Labour department denies racial quotas in Employment Equity Amendment Act

The Democratic Alliance, which has launched a court challenge to the amended Act, says it cannot have a place in democratic South Africa

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3 min read
South Africans could face rising living and borrowing costs after inflation accelerated to 4% in April, with economists warning that fuel-driven global price shocks — not domestic demand — are complicating the South African Reserve Bank’s interest rate outlook
BUSINESS

Gen Z South Africans make ends meet through hustle and pragmatism

The findings challenge stereotypes, showing a generation that’s resourceful, pragmatic and shaping its own financial future

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4 min read
More than 26 000 cases of child abuse and neglect were reported in the 2024-25 financial year
JUSTICEFORCWECWE

Reported cases of child abuse and neglect rose to 26 000 in 2024-25

These included 9 859 cases relating to sexual abuse reported in all nine provinces

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The National Register for Sex Offenders (NRSO) is still in a “legislative review process” after its release was halted in February to address the confidentiality and disclosure clauses that prevent public access, the ministry of justice and constitutional development said
BOSA

National Register for Sex Offenders still in legislative process, justice department says

The register is inaccessible to the public because of legal issues such as defamation, vigilantism and wrongful listings, despite pressure for transparency

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4 min read
Build One South Africa (Bosa) has condemned the South African Police Service (SAPS) for what it describes as “dangerous negligence” after a revelation that less than 0.14% of police officers have been screened against the National Register for Sex Offenders (Photo by Gallo Images / Phill Magakoe)
BOSA

Only 0.1% of police officers checked for sexual offences

The national register for sex offenders contains more than 32 000 names, with more than 10 000 additional cases pending court outcomes

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4 min read
With youth month around the corner, education support networks have raised the alarm on the persistent underperformance and marginalisation of boys in the education system. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BASIC EDUCATION

Calls grow to address marginalisation of boys in education system

In 2022, the out-of-school rate was 10.54% for boys, compared with 8.17% for girls

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5 min read
Kelly Smith, the mother of Joslin Smith.
CHILD TRAFFICKING CASE

State seeks life sentence for accused in Joslin Smith kidnapping

A human expert trafficking testified in aggravation of sentence on Tuesday, saying the sale of the child was premeditated and there was plenty of time to stop it

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4 min read
Basic education minister, Siviwe Gwarube. (Lefty Shivambu/Gallo)
BACKLOG OF INFRASTRUCTURE

Equal Education slams Gwarube over claim that 90% of schools now in a better condition

According to the department of basic education, 93% of 3 372 pit latrines have been replaced with appropriate sanitation facilities

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4 min read