CAPE TOWN, March 22 (ANA) – The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) on Wednesday called on business leaders to take the lead in fighting poverty, unemployment and inequality on the continent through the promotion of regional trade. The department said in a statement that Seema Sardha, director of export promotions at the […]
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Soweto hearings on prepaid electricity begin
JOHANNESBURG, March 22 (ANA) – Petition hearings on Soweto prepaid electricity metering concerns get underway Wednesday morning at the St John’s Church, Jazzyville in Diepkloof extension 1, Parliament has announced. “The hearings will be held under the auspices of Parliament’s Committees on Public Enterprises and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,” said Parliament in a terse […]
The Rainbow Nation bubble is about to burst
Annually we South Africans celebrate Human Rights day. This day is a reminder of the freedom struggle by fighters, some who paid with their lives, blood and extended periods of incarceration. It also signifies the rejection of discrimination, alienation, intolerance and prejudice. The big question: are we living this culture of human rights? To […]
Body of missing boy recovered in dam in North West
SA Police Service divers retrieved the body of a 12-year-old boy from a dam in Geysdorp, near Delareyville on Tuesday, North West police said. “The retrieval of the body emanated from a tireless search by the divers that started yesterday, 20 March 2017, in the morning following a drowning incident that occurred on Sunday, 19 […]
Human Rights Day highlights the dispossession of land: EFF
JOHANNESBURG, March 21 (ANA) – The Economic Freedom Fighters on Tuesday, said the party commemorated the Sharpeville and Langa massacres on Human Rights Day, saying that it highlighted the “dehumanisation of Black people and their land dispossession”. “This day is an assertion that until there is justice and equality in relation to land, until the […]
Black consciousness leader Steve Biko honoured posthumously on Human Rights Day
PORT ELIZABETH, March 21 (ANA) – Black consciousness leader Steve Biko was on Tuesday honoured posthumously in King Williams Town, where President Jacob Zuma led the main Human Rights Day commemoration under the theme: “The year of OR Tambo, Unity in Action in Advancing Human Rights”. “The marking of this day was born out of […]
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Proud Decision’ to vote with DA causes cracks within EFF
– Weekly Expose reporter On Monday, National Spokesperson for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said EFF was proud of its decision to vote with the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the 2016 local government election. Ndlozi was responding to an interview conducted by and broadcast by Jacaranda FM, with the party’s former Treasurer General, […]
SANParks ranger killed in accidental shooting, 9 poachers nabbed one escapes
JOHANNESBURG, March 21 – South African National Parks (SANParks) on Tuesday said a Field Ranger has been killed in what appears to be an accidental shooting. “The incident happened at Lower Sabie in the Kruger National Park (KNP), where the Field Ranger was based and details are still sketchy at this stage, but the South […]
Spur restaurant bans White male involved in altercation with Black female patron
JOHANNESBURG, March 21 – Spur Steak Ranches on Tuesday banned a White male customer from all its chain restaurants after he was involved in a altercation with a Black female patron at one of its restaurants in Johannesburg. The heated exchange, in front of small children, which included profanities happened at Texamo Spur at The […]
Latest match-fixing scandal could endanger SA’s World Cup hopes
CAPE TOWN, March 21 (ANA) – FIFA’s confirmation of match-fixing in South Africa’s World Cup qualifying match against Senegal last year could have far-reaching consequences for Bafana Bafana’s ambitions of playing at the next World Cup in Russia. Soccer’s world governing body FIFA said Bafana Bafana’s World Cup qualifying win over Senegal last year was […]