Government will spend R57 billion on free higher education over the next three years, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Wednesday. Tabling the 2018 Budget in Parliament, Minister Gigaba said there was a reallocation in the spending framework. “The largest reallocation of resources towards government’s priorities was on higher education and training, amounting to additional […]

Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba’s Budget Speech has seen him make “difficult decisions” to address a revenue shortfall and to fund free higher education; including a 1% increase in value-added tax which hasn’t been adjusted since 1993. An increase in VAT, fuel levy and a higher estate duty tax are just some of the things South […]

The African National Congress (ANC) put on a united front on Tuesday night as President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted a cocktail function at Tuynhuys in Cape Town to honour his predecessor Jacob Zuma, who resigned as head of state last week. The private event was attended by ministers and deputy ministers. In official pictures issued, both […]

Police top brass have condemned the “cold-blooded attack” of the police officers stationed at the Ngcobo Police Station in Umtata, Eastern Cape, in South Africa. An unknown group of armed suspects entered the police station in the early hours of this morning and without warning, randomly opened fire on the members on duty. Three members […]

COPE’s Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota struck a chord on Monday with his challenge to new President Cyril Ramaphosa to tell South Africa exactly who ‘our people’ are, referring to Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address that land will be returned to ‘our people’. Lekota’s outburst has since gone viral. The Congress of the People leader made […]

South African National Parks (SANParks) rangers and South African Police Service (SAPS) are on high alert following the mugging of a Dutch couple in Wilderness yesterday. ‘We received the news with shock at about 14:30 yesterday and immediately responded by increasing the number of rangers patrolling the Brown Hooded trail’ says Paddy Gordon, Park Manager […]

Great news from Cape Town, as the continued efforts by residents of the Mother City to cut down on water usage have enabled authorities to push back Day Zero – when taps will be turned off – another month from 4 June to 9 July 2018. A “delighted” Mmusi Maimane – Leader of the Democratic […]

South African comedian Trevor Noah has compiled a 37-minute farewell video to former President Jacob Zuma, using key footage from his comedy shows over the last few years. Posting a trailer on Twitter, Trevor said: “I don’t care what the people say, he will always be the President of jokes. Farewell Jacob Zuma.” Trevor joked […]

Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba will this week table the 2018 Budget in Parliament. The much anticipated budget will be tabled in the National Assembly on Wednesday. Appointed to head National Treasury following former President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle in March 2017, Minister Gigaba is set to deliver the budget in a tough economic environment. It […]

Operations are back to normal at OR Tambo International Airport in Ekurhuleni, following the discovery of an unattended bag earlier in the day… which sparked fears of a planted bomb. Speaking to SAnews, Senior Manager Corporate Affairs at the airport Leigh Gunkel-Keuler, said the bag was found near the international arrivals airport terminal. “Upon the discovery of […]

A Bellville family of three – husband, wife and daughter – were attacked during an early morning stroll on Noordhoek Beach in Kommetjie on Saturday morning… but thanks to a ‘miracle’ they survived. Despite reports by NSRI and local media outlets that only the wife was attacked, the husband was too… but thanks to fate […]

The Proteas may not have won on the field today, but they’re winners in our hearts. This week they helped a special young 12-year-old’s dream come true. Thembinkosi ‘Thembi’ Matshimane, who hails from Ga-Rankuwa near Pretoria, was born in 2005 with a severe and rare muscle disorder called arthrogryposis, which causes rigid joints before birth. […]

The reward offered for information leading to the arrest of the Gupta brothers and Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane Zuma, has risen to at least R1.4-million… and extra cash has been offered to entice the Gupta bodyguards and those already arrested to come forward with information. The Hawks declared Ajay Gupta a “fugitive from justice” on […]

Zelda La Grange, former private secretary to the late President Nelson Mandela, says Mandela would be “incredibly proud” of President Cyril Ramaphosa, and that “we should all walk very tall” from now on. In a post on facebook last night, after the State of the Nation Address (SONA), Zelda said: “We commit with you Mr […]

Here is the Hugh Masekela song that President Cyril Ramaphosa movingly quoted at the end of his State of the Nation Address in Cape Town last night, Friday 16 February 2018. Sadly the iconic South African musician who gave us ‘Send me’ passed away on 23 January 2018, from prostate cancer, less than a month […]

Let us put all the negativity that has dogged our country behind us “because a new dawn is upon us” – was the strong message that newly elected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa shared with the nation on Friday night. “Together we are going to make history. We have done it before and we will […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa believes South Africa can DOUBLE the size of employed people in tourism, and has called on South Africans to welcome tourists with open hearts. Delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament in Cape Town on Friday evening, Ramaphosa said tourism sustains 700,000 direct jobs and is performing better than […]

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced at SONA (State of the Nation Address) that “decisive action” will be taken this year to realise the enormous economic potential of agriculture in South Africa… and will include expropriation of land without compensation. He said: “This year we will take decisive action to realise the enormous economic potential of agriculture. […]

WATCH President Cyril Ramaphosa deliver the State of the Nation Address, South Africa 2018 Earlier this evening: https://www.facebook.com/glynda.kramer/videos/10157687709667228/

South Africa’s newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa has an illustrious career which has seen him working in the private sector, the labour movement and he was among the writers of South Africa’s new democratic constitution. Born on 17 November 1952 in Johannesburg, President Ramaphosa played an important role in the liberation struggle for a democratic […]

Eish, SABC news anchor Peter Ndoro mistakenly reported this morning that South Africa’s brand new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, had passed away. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reporter muddled Ramaphosa’s name with that of former Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who died on Wednesday from colon cancer. Just last month Ndoro mistakenly said that IFP leader Prince […]

A photo of a beaming President Cyril Ramaphosa striding through the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, just hours after being sworn in as South Africa’s fifth president has gone viral. The photo was taken by South African model Lee-Ann Liebenberg (who was voted FHM-South Africa’s Sexiest Woman in the World in 2005), who then posted […]

If you missed it, here’s the message that DA Leader Mmusi Maimane delivered to President Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament earlier today: “Mr Ramaphosa, we wish you well, but know that we will hold you accountable!” Watch Maimane Address Ramaphosa: https://www.facebook.com/DemocraticAlliance/videos/10155461356058111/ Ramaphosa’s Response: Ramaphosa said that in his tradition when a young man becomes a man, […]

Cyril Ramaphosa has been sworn in as the fifth democratically elected President of South Africa on Thursday. In a packed Media Centre in the Presidency precinct at Tuynhuys, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng officiated the swearing in of the President following his election in the National Assembly earlier in the day. The jovial President, looking dapper […]

Despite the mood amongst ordinary South Africans being quite euphoric that Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa is poised to be nominated and elected as the President of South Africa, opposition party the Democratic Alliance (DA) has announced that it will not support Ramaphosa’s nomination, and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) say they won’t participate in the […]