Subscribe
Daily DispatchDaily Dispatch
Subscribe
SE

Creator

Seipati Mothoa

Deputy minister of higher education and training Yusuf Cassim says his help desk is making progress with students sharing their complaints on funding. Picture:

Cassim vows faster NSFAS responses after complaints from 400 students

Deputy minister of higher education and training Yusuf Cassim has pledged to improve how the National Student Financial Aid Scheme responds to students, saying the government has to become easier to reach and quicker to act.

  • Seipati Mothoa
Higher education and training deputy minister Yusuf Cassim has responded to xenophobic and Islamophobic attacks against him. Picture: Supplied

Yusuf Cassim dismisses online hate, focusing instead on his new job

The new deputy higher education minister has been subjected to online racist attacks

  • Seipati Mothoa
Basic education minister Siviwe Gwarube says stunting is irreversible. Picture: Fredlin Adriaan

‘Stunting is irreversible’: Gwarube urges more funding for school nutrition

Education minister Siviwe Gwarube was addressing the SAHRC inquiry into the national food system on Thursday

  • Seipati Mothoa
Land reform and rural development minister Mzwanele Nyhontso told the SAHRC inquiry on Tuesday that giving people access to land is not enough to end hunger. Picture:

Minister says water, funding and infrastructure to fight hunger must support land reform

Land reform and rural development minister Mzwanele Nyhontso says land reform is not ‘a complete food security solution’ on its own

  • Seipati Mothoa
Wheat accounts for less than 20% of the price of a loaf of bread, while the remaining costs come from milling, baking, electricity, transport, packaging and retail. Picture:

Grain SA says farmers not to blame for high food prices

Grain SA told the SA Human Rights Commission that farmers are not to blame for high food prices

  • Seipati Mothoa
Santaco confirms that taxis will operate across the country on June 30. Picture:

Santaco backs SAPS call to keep taxis running during June 30 protests

Santaco has pledged that taxis will operate normally on June 30, despite the planned March and March demonstrations linked to immigration concerns

  • Seipati Mothoa
Protesters during the June 1976 uprising in South Africa. The Soweto uprising was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa under apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. (Photo by Gallo Images / Rapport archives)

YOUTH DAY | Youth of 2026 face a different struggle 50 years after 1976 uprising

Fifty years after the Soweto Uprising, many young South Africans say their biggest fight is no longer for access to education but for access to jobs.

  • Seipati Mothoa
  • Gugulethu Mashinini
Gauteng economic development MEC Vuyiswa Ramokgopa announced the dismissal of Gauteng Gambling Board CEO Karabo Mbele on Monday.

Gauteng Gambling Board CEO fired for ‘gross misconduct’

Gauteng Gambling Board CEO Karabo Mbele has been fired after a forensic investigation uncovered alleged procurement irregularities, financial misconduct and governance failures within the entity.

  • Seipati Mothoa
A drug laboratory operation valued at R100m was raided near Swartruggens in the North West.

Major drug laboratory raided in North West

Illicit manufacturing facility uncovered by officers from national crime intelligence unit

  • Seipati Mothoa
Putco said 550 buses are carrying ZCC members to Moria over the Easter weekend.

550 buses deployed to transport ZCC members to Moria

More than 550 Putco buses have been deployed to transport thousands of Zion Christian Church members travelling to Moria in Limpopo for the Easter pilgrimage

  • Seipati Mothoa
Dr Phophi Ramathuba with Prof Nyaweleni Tshifularo who led the complex separation surgery.

Conjoined twins: One dies after complex separation surgery

Limpopo premier Phophi Ramathuba on Friday confirmed the death of one of the recently separated conjoined twins at Mankweng Tertiary Hospital.

  • Seipati Mothoa
Minister of police Firoz Cachalia said total contact crimes, which include murder, rape and robbery, decreased by 6.7% compared with the same quarter last year. Picture: Freddy Mavunda © Business Day

Murders drop but crime levels still too high, says police minister Cachalia

South Africa recorded 602 fewer murders between October and December 2025 compared with the same period the previous year, an 8.7% decrease.

  • Seipati Mothoa
Gauteng operators march to the department of roads and transport to demand answers.

‘We wake before sunrise to get pupils to school’: Gauteng transport operators plead for recognition

Gauteng transport operators, including Bhekani Nkanyane, protested against the impoundment of their vehicles and permit issues, demanding recognition and better service delivery from the local government.

  • Seipati Mothoa
A Nigerian man was fatally shot during a 'Sizok'thola' operation.

Joburg man shot dead during ‘anti-drug operation’ by ‘Sizok’thola’ TV show

ActionSA Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate Xolani Khumalo was present at Sunday's operation

  • Seipati Mothoa
DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach says she will write to justice and constitutional development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi to raise the party's concerns. Picture:

DA seeks NDPP panel report through PAIA after Ramaphosa refuses to release it

The Democratic Alliance has filed a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application after President Cyril Ramaphosa refused to release the report guiding his decision to appoint Andy Mothibi as the national director of public…

  • Seipati Mothoa