Hardened Western Cape criminals, a constant headache for the Justice and Correctional Services Department, are proving to be serial violators of parole conditions as 8 221 of them have broken regulations since 2019.
Pressure has been mounting on the government to arrest Putin when he attends the summit attended by Brazil, Russia, India, China and the host nation in Durban from August 22 to 24.
The rules committee will decide on whether Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramakgopa’s department should be treated as a normal programme or have a portfolio committee.
Zille, who finds woke culture a pet peeve, was weighing in on the controversy surrounding social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
The lifeline of the poor, the SA Social Security Agency, has haemorrhaged more than R500 million to government officials’ theft, corruption and fraud in the past decade – with little to no accountability.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has moved to re-affirm commitments to reduce carbon emissions by 2030 and mitigate the effects of climate change.
After Cabinet ministers’ initial indifference to responses about Eskom corruption, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has dispelled the perception that little is being done to address grand corruption at Eskom.
Western Cape hospitals have consistently had the highest general cases of trauma recorded in emergency rooms across the country since 2021.
More than 178000 children aged up to 5 years old have died in Department of Health facilities, mostly due to severe acute malnutrition, pneumonia and diarrhoea, since 2013.
The DA is expected to announce today that three councillors have jumped ship from the GOOD Party, which is bleeding councillors in George.
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) processed 10 643 newcomer asylum applications in five refugee reception centres during the 2022/23 financial year, and rejected 8 948 of them, Minister Aaron Motsoaledi revealed in Parliament.
Eighty-Four SA Post Office (Sapo) employees have been placed on suspension for issuing fraudulent vehicle licences nationwide, while 15 have already been fired.
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and Robben Island Museum (RIM) have established a task team to improve their working relationship towards implementing the impending relocation of the Mayibuye archives.
Police Minister Bheki Cele has rescinded Western Cape police commissioner Thembisile Patekile’s controversial language policy.
A Pick n Pay employee stole R350 000 from his Elsies River-based employer and blew half of it in a month before he was bust with the money on his bed at his Eastern Cape home.
Five Western Cape municipalities failed to spend 40% of their grants by December 2022 and as a result the National Treasury is claiming back the funds, hampering service delivery.
On day two of hearings into Facebook Rapist Thabo Bester’s escape from the Mangaung Correctional Centre, prison bosses and parliamentarians laid into the management of the privately-operated facility.
Health Minister Joe Phaahla says hospitals and clinics have another crisis: 18 804 vacancies for doctors, nurses and medical care personnel, which is largely due to budget cuts.
Twenty-Three! That’s the number of G4S officials who were on duty and “looked the other way” as Facebook rapist and murderer Thabo Bester pulled a Houdini in the wee hours of May 3, 2022, beating a camera system that still relies on VHS tapes.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s mooted merger between Brand SA and the beleaguered Tourism SA hasn’t even been discussed at Cabinet level yet, Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille disclosed.
At least 21 332 nurses were deregistered – from the SA Nursing Council (SANC) from 2021 to 2022, Health Minister Joe Phaahla has revealed in a briefing to MPs. This despite nursing being a critical skill.
The Hawks and Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke have put a lid on a problematic contract in the Kannaland Municipality.
The Provincial Treasury has has been thrust into the spotlight for underspending by R17. 6 million in the 2021/22 financial year.
The City of Cape Town could see more farms and tracts of land from other municipalities fall under its administration in terms of the demarcation process now open for comments.
Lawmakers hauled private company G4S over the coals for attempting to hand-pick appearance dates for a grilling by the justice and correctional services portfolio committee.
