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1,663 Episodes
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Lamola wants to 'skip the leadership queue' but must wait his turn: Malema

EFF leader Julius Malema believes ANC national executive committee member Ronald Lamola is not ready to be party deputy president. Malema was reacting to Lamola’s apparent interest in contesting for the position of ANC deputy president at the party’s national elective conference in December. Lamola recently called for “new blood”…
26 Jan 2022 2AM 3 min

Prison inmates achieve 77% matric pass rate

Justice and correctional services minister Ronald Lamola announced the 2021 matric results of prison inmates on Monday. Lamola said 147 inmates passed out of the 191 who registered to write matric last year. He said eight of the schools achieved a 100% pass rate, and “82% of our pupils qualify…
24 Jan 2022 7AM 3 min

A+ for class of 2021 for conquering disruptions: Education expert

Education expert and University of Johannesburg associate professor Nicky Roberts says the matric class did well, especially given they experienced a full year of Covid-19 and associated disruptions. Basic education minister Angie Motshekga announced that the pass rate went up marginally to 76.4%. “We are seeing stability in the system…
21 Jan 2022 6AM 4 min

ANC staff slam party for blaming political funding law for non-payment of salaries

ANC employees have slammed the party’s leadership for blaming new party funding legislation for its non-payment of salaries. At a press conference on Friday, chairperson of the ANC staff representative committee Mvusi Mdala said the party had challenges paying salaries before the Political Party Funding Act came into effect.
21 Jan 2022 3AM 5 min

2021 matric year 'better than 2020': public school support programme

Centre for the Advancement of Science and Mathematics Education (CASME) director Henre Benson says the 2021 grade 12 academic year improved from 2020. Benson says learning losses and the affect of Covid-19 on learning was reduced this year. Basic education minister Angie Motshekga is expected to announce the grade 12…
20 Jan 2022 10AM 7 min

SA united in outrage at Eskom's proposed double digit tariff hike

Eskom’s proposed tariff hike of 20.5% for its next financial year, which is set to kick in from April 1, has South African’s united in outrage. We asked a sample group of South African citizens, how much they are currently spending on electricity and what they think about the increase. 
19 Jan 2022 6AM 9 min

Malema meets with restaurant owners on labour practices

EFF leader Julius Malema visited restaurants in Johannesburg to assess the employment ratio of locals and foreign nationals as a part of the party’s initiative to challenge exploitive labour practices in SA. The party said Malema will engage with business owners in the hospitality industry nationwide.
19 Jan 2022 6AM 2 min

Black consciousness, white tears: ubuntu’s challenge to liberalism

Eusebius discussed Black Consciousness, liberation theology and white liberals with Harvard University doctoral candidate and author Panashe Chigumadzi. In this latest episode of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, Chigumadzi starts off by explaining why it is important for black people to not be distracted by anti-black racism, puzzling through the conundrum that…
17 Jan 2022 8AM 5 min

Can't shake your Covid-19 symptoms? Here's why

25% to 30% of all people who contract and survive Covid-19 will continue to suffer from Long Covid, which is the persistence of Covid-19 symptoms three months from the time a person stops being infectious.  Long Covid cannot be formally diagnosed and there is no way of telling who will…
14 Jan 2022 7AM 11 min

Diagnosing the dramatic decline of the ANC

Political analyst and head of the political studies department at the University of Cape Town associate professor Zwelethu Jolobe says despite the ANC NEC clearly articulating how a renewed party should look, it's not capable of taking its subordinates along with it. "The problem we have here is that we…
14 Jan 2022 4AM 13 min

Gauteng COGTA's Lupi Ngcayisa on the collapse of Joburg council sitting

MEC for Human Settlements, Urban Planning and CoGTA, Lebogang Maile, has written a formal letter to the Speaker of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Councillor Vasco Da Gama, requesting the Speaker to provide the MEC with a comprehensive report on the collapse of the council meeting of 13 January…
14 Jan 2022 3AM 1 min

Law on driver demerit system ruled invalid: Outa wins court challenge

The Pretoria high court on Thursday found the Aarto Act and its amendment, on which the planned demerit system for traffic offences is based, inconsistent with the constitution. Consequently, judge Annali Basson declared the Aarto Act and the Amendment Act “unconstitutional and invalid”.
13 Jan 2022 5AM 2 min

Dr Phophi Ramathuba responds to 'open your books & close your legs' backlash

Media personality Siv Ngesi has joined the thousands of people expressing their outrage over Limpopo Health MEC Dr Phophi Ramathuba's recent school visit address where she advised the girls to open their book and close their legs. A video of the Limpopo Health MEC went viral on Twitter after Ramathuba…
13 Jan 2022 4AM 8 min
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