As Limpopo school children are admitted to hospital for food poisoning, lobby group the Foundation for Education and Social Justice Africa has called on South Africa’s intelligence community to get to the bottom of the crisis that has left scores of learners either killed or hospitalised.  The foundation’s Deputy Chairperson, Hendrick Makaneta, has taken a jab at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government, accusing it of being reactive to national crises.  This included matters of national importance, such as the food poisoning…

Some 500 retrenched Life Healthcare Group employees are crying foul, accusing the healthcare company and the Gauteng Department of Social Development of using them to play politics at their expense and that of the patients. This comes after Life Nkanyisa, a subsidiary of the Life Healthcare Group, laid off hundreds of staff at the company’s Witpoort Recovery Centre and the Life Nkanyisa Randfontein Recovery Centre. It cited tough budget negotiations with the Gauteng Department of Social Development. Earlier this year,…

uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) President Jacob Zuma has appointed Floyd Shivambu as Secretary General a few months after joining South Africa’s third biggest party.  Shivambu, the EFF’s former deputy president and the party’s co-founder, takes over from Dr Sifiso Maseko, who resigned in October to resume his duties in the Gauteng Department of Health. Shivambu shockingly left the EFF in August amid a fallout with party leader Julius Malema, who later accused him of betrayal. He was later appointed the…

The Polokwane High Court in Limpopo has sentenced Facebook serial rapist Ronny Maluleke to 99 years imprisonment for multiple counts of rape, counts of robbery aggravating circumstances, and housebreaking with intent to rape. Maluleke’s sentencing on Tuesday came after he was arrested at Lenyenye Village outside Tzaneen in November 2021. He was remanded in custody until his case was finalised. According to Provincial Police spokesperson Brigadier Hlulani Mashaba, in May 2015, the convicted criminal intruded into one of his victim’s…

Life Nkanyisa, a subsidiary of the Life Healthcare Group, has threatened to shut down the Witpoort Recovery Centre and the Life Nkanyisa Randfontein Recovery Centre, throwing substance abuse recovering addicts back to the streets, which are already full of drugs. This after it has served about 500 employees with Section 189 notice following the Gauteng Department of Social Development cutting funding due to budgetary constraints. The facilities have a capacity of about 750 patients, with Witpoort Recovery Centre accommodating 300…

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU), assisted by the Hawks and the South African Police Service, raided the JB Marks Local Municipality in the North West Province on Thursday in connection with alleged tender irregularities and fraud. The SIU is investigating allegations of serious maladministration regarding the construction of a flood line canal next to the N12 provincial road and Ikageng extension 11. The raid comes after the Potchefstroom Magistrate Court granted the unit a warrant to search the municipality’s premises,…