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14/02/2025

African Heads of State and Government are set to elect new leadership of the African Union (AU), including a new chairperson, during the 38th African Union Summit on 15 and 16 February.

The summit comes amid the escalating conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan where fighting between the warring parties has intensified in recent weeks, leaving a trail of civilian casualties and thousands of people in dire conditions.

In other parts of the continent, long-running conflicts, including in the Sahel and Somalia, continue almost unabated.

14/02/2025

Congratulations to Lerato Mataboge for being elected as Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy of the African Union (AU).

Mataboge is currently the Deputy Director-General at the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic).

As the AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, she will be expected to play a key role in addressing colonial-era transportation routes that were primarily designed for the extraction of Africa’s raw minerals for the development of Western nations.

13/02/2025

South African will be launching the National Petroleum Company (SANPC) on 1 April 2025, as part of efforts to restructure the energy sector.

This move consolidates PetroSA, iGas and the Strategic Fuel Fund (SFF).

13/02/2025

Pentecostal pastors in Uganda's capital, Kampala, have asked for a provision in the country's Marriage Bill (2024) to consider cohabiting couples as married.

The pastors said this will prevent the growing tendency of men who take long to commit to relationships, even when there are children involved.

“Cohabitation will weaken marriages, some people do not wish to marry and they have ruined many lives,” they said.

“We suggest that staying with a person for a period of at least five years should automatically be qualified as marriage provided none of the party is committed in another legal marriage."

The pastors submitted their views on the Marriage Bill, 2024 during a joint meeting of the Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee and the Committee on Gender, Labour and Social Development on Wednesday, 12 February 2025.

13/02/2025

Social Development Deputy Minister, Ganief Henricks, has revealed that South Africans spent a staggering R7.7 billion on alcohol between the week of 25 December 2024 to 1 January 2025.

Henricks on Wednesday led a team from the Department and the Central Drug Authority, to Parliament, in tabling the 2023/2024 Central Drug Authority Annual Report before the portfolio committee.

The Deputy Minister also noted that according to the South African Society of Psychiatrists one out of every five adults abuse mind-altering substances.

He added that the rising figures of illicit drug use suggested that the country was losing the war on drugs.

13/02/2025

Social grant beneficiaries are urged to replace their SASSA gold cards with the new Postbank black cards by 28 February 2025.

The South African Social Security Agency has warned that its beneficiaries without the new Postbank cards could have trouble with their transactions after the deadline, regardless of the expiry date printed on their gold cards.

The new cards will be issued free of charge, according to the Agency.

12/02/2025

South Africa has vowed not to withdraw its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) despite US President Donald Trump's threats and cutting of aid.

12/02/2025

According to UN data, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was the largest recipient of US humanitarian aid in the world in 2024, and 70 per cent of the $1.3 billion in funding received that year came from Washington.

11/02/2025

The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) says the annual toll tariffs will increase by 4.84%, as published in the Government Gazette of 7 February 2025.

This adjustment to the toll tariffs is effective from 1 March 2025.

SANRAL’s General Manager for Communications and Marketing, Vusi Mona, said the toll revenue is necessary to maintain, operate and improve toll roads, as well as to service debt incurred to implement a toll road project.

“The funds go a long way towards ensuring that SANRAL fulfils its mandate of delivering quality road infrastructure that adds value to the lives of South African citizens,” Mona emphasized.

11/02/2025

The Department of Social Development has announced that a total of 203, 279 NPOs, voluntary associations and trusts across South Africa face the risk of deregistration.

This is due to failure to comply with the requirements to submit annual reports as per the provisions of section 18 (1) of the Non-Profit Organisations Act.

“The consequences for non-compliant NPOs are severe as they will no longer be able to access certain privileges such as tax exemption, letters of support and funding from government, donors and private institutions that uphold accountability and the rule of law,” the department said.

10/02/2025

Tributes continue to pour in for the late nuclear scientist Ms Senamile Masango. She passed away in hospital, on 09 February 2025, following a short illness.

Ms Masango was a globally recognised nuclear scientist, esteemed energy leader, and pioneering entrepreneur. She was 37 years old.

May her soul rest in eternal peace. 🕊

10/02/2025

Rise Mzansi national leader Songezo Zibi has called for an adequate Defence budget and a new strategic plan following the recent casualties incurred by the SANDF in DRC.

"We need a new strategic plan for the Defence Force, including the hiring of younger personnel to strengthen our capabilities for the long term," he said during a National Assembly debate.

09/02/2025

ActionSA says it will be writing to the Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana M**h, demanding urgent intervention in the alleged corruption and mismanagement plaguing the Compensation Fund and the Unemployment Insurance Fund.

The party claims that these Funds have been turned into slush funds for fraud and maladministration.

"The dignity of our nation’s workers is being systematically stripped away by those entrusted to safeguard their welfare," it said in a statement.

These two Funds are responsible for a combined annual revenue of R46 billion.

09/02/2025

Leaders from the and regional blocs have issued a clarion call for “political and diplomatic engagement” by all parties involved in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo conflict.

A communiqué was released following the conclusion of the Joint Summit held at Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania, on Saturday.

The conflict has claimed the lives of 14 South African National Defence Force members in addition to soldiers from other SADC member countries who were part of a peacekeeping mission in the DRC.

The United Nations reports that thousands of people have been killed, including women and children, and hundreds of thousands forced away from their homes.

08/02/2025

African Heads of State and Government are set to convene for a Presidential Dialogue on the establishment of an Africa Credit Rating Agency on 14 February 2025.

This event will take place on the margins of the 37th AU Ordinary Summit at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Facilitated by the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the event will also bring together policymakers, financial experts, and development partners to deliberate on the operationalisation of a dedicated credit rating agency for the continent.

According to the AU, this move underscores Africa’s commitment to enhancing the continent’s financial sovereignty and addressing long-standing challenges associated with the three international credit rating agencies.

08/02/2025

The government of South Africa has issued another lacklustre statement in response to Donald Trump's executive order, which makes provision for refugee status to the Boer community.

"It is of great concern that the foundational premise of this order lacks factual accuracy and fails to recognise South Africa’s profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid.

"We are concerned by what seems to be a campaign of misinformation and propaganda aimed at misrepresenting our great nation. It is disappointing to observe that such narratives seem to have found favour among decision-makers in the United States of America," Dirco stated.

08/02/2025

Afriforum has expressed its commitment to remain "at the southern tip of Africa" following an executive order by US President Donald Trump to give Boers a refugee status in America.

According to Kallie Kriel, CEO of AfriForum, the Boer settlers will only be able to continue to exist as a cultural community on South African soil.

"Emigration only offers an opportunity for Afrikaners who are willing to risk sacrificing their descendants' cultural identity as Afrikaners. The price for that is too expensive to pay.

"We also owe it to our ancestors not to nullify their sacrifices, to let Afrikaners as a nation take shape, by giving up our self-existence as Afrikaners," said Kriel at a media briefing on Saturday.

07/02/2025

The South African Government has committed to spend more than R940 billion on infrastructure over the next three years, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday, while delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA2025) in Parliament, Cape Town.

Among the key announcements made by Ramaphosa, is to attract at least R100 billion in private-sector investment towards infrastructure financing "to get more cranes in the sky and shovels in the ground".

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