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Special Investigating Unit Host Webinars On Whistleblowing And Witness Protection In South Africa.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) under the banner of the Health Sector Anti-Corruption Forum has put together a five-episode series of webinars that will shine the spotlight on the state of whistleblowing and witness protection in South Africa. The webinars are an initiative of the SIU together with the Department of Justice and Co...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 4 days ago

UIF Appeals To Employers To Resolve Errors On Covid-19 TERS Portal To Finalise Outstanding Claims.

The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has appealed to employers to resolve errors on the COVID-19 TERS portal to enable it to finalise outstanding claims. The claims cannot be finalised until certain corrections are effected and that can only be done by the applicants and they appear as outstanding Covid-19 TERS payments. The UIF has d...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 5 days ago

SA Moves To Alert Level 2 Lockdown.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved South Africa to adjusted level 2 lockdown from Monday. This means that the national curfew will start at 11 pm and end at 4 am. All gatherings will be limited to a maximum of 250 people indoors, as well as 500 people outdoors. Where the venue is too small to accommodate these numbers with appro...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 7 days ago

South Africa Gets Ready For Seat On UNWTO Executive Council

South Africa was recently nominated to serve on the executive council of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO). At its 64th Meeting held in the Island of Sal, Cabo Verde on 2 September 2021, the UNWTO Commission for Africa (CAF) nominated South Africa for one of the five seats available for the Africa region for the UN...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 11 days ago

Matric Examination Time-Table Amended To Accommodate Local Government Elections.

The final National Senior Certificate examination will now start on 27 October 2021, not 1 November as initially scheduled. The papers, English (Home Language, First Additional Language and Second Additional Language) P1, Business Studies P1 , and the Non-Official Languages P1, scheduled originally for November 1 and 2 will now be wri...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 5 days ago

Suspended ANC SG Ace Magashule Loses Appeal Bid.

The Johannesburg High Court today dismissed an application by the suspended ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule to appeal a court ruling upholding his suspension.

By Phumzile Mavimbela 7 days ago

Special Investigating Unit and National Health Laboratory Services Freezes Properties And Trust Account Linked To Hamilton Ndlovu.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) and the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) have been granted an order by the Special Tribunal (Tribunal) to freeze luxury properties and a trust account to the value of R42 million, belonging ...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 11 days ago

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Gauteng Legislature Hosts Hybrid Safety Seminar To Assess Law Enforcement Agencies in Gauteng.

The Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety will on the 3rd-4th September 2021 host a hybrid Safety Seminar to assess whether Law Enforcement Agencies in Gauteng, especially the South Africa Police Servic...

Phumzile Mavimbela·17 days ago

Book predicts ANC’s last decade of political dominance in South Africa

The declining political dominance of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has increasingly attracted scholarly attention since 2009. Political analyst Ralph Mathekga’s new book, The ANC’s Last Decade: how the decline of...

Christopher Isike ·17 days ago

South Africa is due to get a new chief justice: what it takes to do the job well

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has been a beacon of light during a decade-long period of political uncertainty and turmoil. Most recently, the highest court in the land handed down an eloquent, as well as ground-breaking, judgment i...

Richard Calland·18 days ago

Miss SA Shudufhadzo Musida Tackles Bullying Through Her New Book

Miss South Africa Shudufhadzo Musida children’s book Shudu Finds Her Magic will be available in book stores from tomorrow. The book was published by Jacana Media it is available in six languages and includes colourful illustrations by C...

Phumzile Mavimbela·19 days ago

More Than 1 050 Teachers And 105 Centre Managers Have Been Appointed To Teach After School Hours.

The Department of Basic Education briefed the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on Tuesday regarding the progress made regarding the Matric Second Chance Programme, as well as the training of Mathematics and Science teachers in targ...

Phumzile Mavimbela·19 days ago

Employment And Labour On Poor Service Delivery At Alberton Labour Centre.

The incidents of poor service delivery experienced by clients at the Alberton Labour Centre is the antithesis of expected behaviour by officials of the government in general and the Department of Employment and Labour in particular. W...

Phumzile Mavimbela·20 days ago

South Africa is due to get a new chief justice: what it takes to do the job well.

Richard Calland ·20 days ago

Do Not Pay For A Place In The Queue, Says Post Office.

The South African Post Office says it has become aware of instances where self-appointed queue marshals ask customers who visit their branches a fee for a place in the front of the queue. No SAPO employee or other individuals have the ri...

Phumzile Mavimbela·21 days ago

from The Desk Of The President

Dear Fellow South African, Over the course of the three years since the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture started its work, we have heard of the lengths to which the perpetrators of corrupt acts have gone to conceal their misd...

President Cyril Ramaphosa·21 days ago

Special Investigating Unit On Measures In Place To Ensure Safety Ff Whistleblowers, Witnesses and SIU Investigators

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has noted the public sentiments and concerns around witness protection following the murder of Chief Director: Financial Accounting in the Gauteng Department of Health, Ms Babita Deokaran. Once more, ...