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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Students face being left destitute as NSFAS stumbles

NSFAS and the Department of Higher Education and Training struggle with backlogs of applications for this year

Sunday Independent News
Lebogang Seale|Published

VBS Mutual Bank's chief executive breaks silence

Andile Ramavhunga, the bank’s chief executive, denies culpability of bringing bank to its knees

Sunday Independent News
Lebogang Seale|Published

Soweto on lookout for superstars

Football legends say talent must be nurtured from school

Sunday Independent News
Lebogang Seale|Published

Masina: Fraud, corruption have been drastically reduced in Ekurhuleni

Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina believes his council is doing enough to root out the rot.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

Bowing to the Zulu king over Trust a mistake

The Zulu King costs South Africans (three-quarters of whom are not Zulu) a considerable amount of money every year to maintain, says the writer.

News
Lebogang Seale|Published

Outrage over fired Prasa chief’s return to board

Blade Nzimande appointed Letsoalo as non-executive board member to the Passenger Rail Agency of SA interim board that he announced in April

Sunday Independent News
Lebogang Seale|Published

Miriam Makeba 'not for sale'

The family of the late Miriam Makeba and her business manager are expected to square off in court tomorrow over the control of the music icon’s legacy.

Sunday Independent News
Lebogang Seale|Published

Labour Department flounders as managers resign in droves

At least 10 managers are said to have resigned from the Department of Labour in just a year because of what insiders say is a toxic environment of abuse and bullying.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

Nkoana-Mashabane fires warning shot to absent landlords

Gauteng may be the smallest province in the country, but there are vast pieces of land lying unused, and the government is going to expropriate these.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

The race for a seat at #CyrilRamaphosa's table is on

As President Cyril Ramaphosa was putting the final touches on his SONA, a frantic jockeying for ministerial posts was hotting up among some of his loyalists.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

Maroleng sets his sights on rebuilding SABC

The SABC's new COO Chris Maroleng has his work cut out for him.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

Former health MEC quizzed over 143 deaths

It wasn’t about the Esidimeni catastrophe

Saturday Star Opinion
Lebogang Seale|Published

Ramaphosa’s time has come

Cyril Rampahosa has what it takes to tackle the challenges of a divided NEC and move the party forward writes Lebogang Seale

News Opinion
Lebogang Seale|Published

SABC splurges almost R2m on recruiting

The SABC has spent almost R2 million on the recruitment process of three top executives, and the corporation is still counting the cost.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

'New police commissioner must audit irregularly appointed cops'

While the ISS welcomed Lieutenant-General Khehla Sitole?s appointment as national police commissioner, it said the selection processes remain flawed.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

#FeesMustFall: It's up to Zuma now, says Habib

The higher education funding model proposed in the Heher Commission report is a risky but noble plan, says the Wits vice-chancellor.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

SA politicians 'like headless chickens'

Former statistician-general Pali Lehohla says politicians ignore statistics which could help SA pull itself out of its social and economic quagmire.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

‘My ordeal with sex pest mayor’

News of the 14-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually groomed by Simon Mofokeng came as an arrow that pierced through the heart of Ntombi*.

News South Africa Gauteng
Lebogang Seale|Published

Runaway flames of greed roar at SA

Just a few months ago, Luthuli House accused its former MP Makhosi Khoza of behaving like ?a runaway fire? for her stinging criticism of the party.

News Opinion
Lebogang Seale|Published

Runaway flames of greed roar at SA

Just a few months ago, Luthuli House accused its former MP Makhosi Khoza of behaving like “a runaway fire” for her stinging criticism of the party.

Saturday Star Opinion
Lebogang Seale|Published

Zuma faces legal action on SABC board

APPARENT delays by President Jacob Zuma to appoint an SABC board has escalated into legal action.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

Minister seems at sixes and sevens over SABC board

Communications Minister Ayanda Dlodlo has suggested that the fact that the interim board members had served in an acting capacity in some way disqualified them.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

EFF tells Zuma to appoint SABC board - or else

Pressure has been mounting on Zuma to appoint a permanent board since the interim board?s six months? term ended almost two weeks ago.

News Politics
Lebogang Seale|Published

Severe corporal punishment still carried out at many SA schools

Children are being scarred, maimed and even killed at our schools, writes Lebogang Seale.

News Opinion
Lebogang Seale|Published

New ARV drug breakthrough in fighting HIV

Safer and more effective - health minister

Lifestyle Health
Lebogang Seale|Published