Rural Women Deserve More Than Women’s Month Speeches

Every August, amidst the pomp and circumstance of Women’s Month celebrations, South Africa pauses to honour women. Politicians stand behind podiums, reading carefully crafted PR speeches about resilience, empowerment and progress. Awards are handed out, social media fills with tributes, and banners proclaim the importance of women.

But beyond the stages and cameras are rural women whose contributions remain largely invisible.

For generations, rural women have held families and communities together while men left home as migrantREAD MORE

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — “Friendship stands by a meaningful thing — a world of peace must be a world of friendship.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping once quoted a foreign friend to illustrate the preciousness of friendship. In his view, people-to-people friendship is the foundation for stable and sustained international relations, an inexhaustible driving force for promoting world peace and development and a basic prerequisite for win-win cooperation.

This Spring Festival, Xi replied to friends in theREAD MORE

Parliament has directly challenged suspended MP Fadiel Adams’ claim that a faulty laptop contributed to his failure to respond to repeated requests from the Madlanga Commission, saying its records contain no evidence of the persistent technical problems he described.

Adams, leader of the National Coloured Congress (NCC), told the Commission on Tuesday that his Parliament-issued laptop had been giving him problems for about 18 months, frequently freezing and being sent for repairs.

He said the problems hadREAD MORE

The Madlanga Commission has heard explosive allegations that former Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) head Andrea Johnson wanted a senior police brigadier investigated and charged, allegedly creating an opportunity for her husband to occupy the position.

IDAC prosecutor Advocate Drushantha Ramsamy made the allegations during her testimony on Tuesday, as she continued to detail what she described as serious irregularities in the directorate’s handling of investigations involving senior Crime Intelligence officials.

Ramsamy told the commission that JohnsonREAD MORE

The Talane forensic report into fraud and corruption in the Limpopo Legislature has painted a picture of a free-for-all looting spree, collusion, fronting, and price inflation by the three contracted travel agencies 

One of them, Ketlakgona Supply and Projects, was allegedly paid R1 million more than it quoted for arranging a trip to Tanzania in September 2024.

According to a forensic report conducted by law firm Talane and Associates Attorneys, the Legislature paid Ketlakgona Supply and ProjectsREAD MORE

Suspended Member of Parliament and National Coloured Congress (NCC) leader Fadiel Adams will have to wait another week before giving evidence at the Madlanga Commission after the inquiry questioned his failure to submit his affidavit on time.

Adams appeared before the Commission on Tuesday morning, but evidence leader Advocate Matthew Chaskalson asked Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga to postpone his testimony to August 19.

The request followed the lateREAD MORE

President Cyril Ramaphosa has met the family of South African-born Captain Daniel Perez, as the Presidency highlighted the government’s intervention in securing the return of the slain soldier’s remains from Hamas.

The meeting between Ramaphosa and the Perez family comes almost three years after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks in Israel, in which Perez was killed and his remains taken to Gaza.

The Presidency said Ramaphosa conveyed his condolences to the family and reaffirmed South Africa’sREAD MORE

The Mtititi Fumani Gold Mine in Limpopo is set to be officially launched this month, with Vhembe District Municipality Executive Mayor Miyelani Chauke saying that the long-awaited mining project is expected to create about 3,000 jobs.

The planned launch comes as communities across the Vhembe region continue to face high levels of unemployment and limited economic opportunities, particularly for young people.

Chauke spoke about the mining project recently during his public engagement drive in Xikundu, Bevhula, Magona,READ MORE

Learners have been urged to break the silence around bullying, gender based violence (GBV) and sexual assault by reporting incidents to teachers, parents or other trusted adults.

The call was made during the launch of the first phase of the GBV Awareness School Outreach Programme, which took place at Tshwaragano Primary School in Thokoza and Matsediso Primary School in Katlehong last week.

The programme, initiated by Phinda-Mzala Entertainment Project with support from the NationalREAD MORE

China is committed to working hand in hand with African countries, including South Africa, to advance modernisation and build a community with a shared future for mankind. It also strives to strengthen coordination and cooperation among countries of the Global South and promote the reform and improvement of global governance, said Pan Qingjiang, consul general of China in Johannesburg, at the “Governance of China” seminar.

Held on 7 August at the Johannesburg Business School of the University ofREAD MORE