A new alcohol ban enforced by the Eastern Cape Department of Education is putting an end to long-standing fundraising traditions at public schools in the province.

Twenty-seven students from Gaza will be heading back home after arriving in 2024 to complete their practicals for medical studies at UCT and Wits university following the destruction of their medical schools during the Gaza war.

It is dangerous for the governing party to only meet with one group whose mother tongue is Afrikaans who call themselves Afrikaners — a group who enjoy all the privileges from the previous dispensation.

Chaos broke out at a hearing of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Higher Education when EFF MP Sihle Lonzi was forcibly removed after raising concerns about leaked Seta board appointments.

The parliamentary defence and military veterans committee will ask President Cyril Ramaphosa and Defence Minister Angie Motshekga to place the department under administration for alleged incompetence and leadership problems.

Contrary to xenophobic statements, South African universities are not flooded with foreign staff. The real crisis lies in our failure to invest in and grow a new generation of black South African academics.

People are realising that the grass isn’t always greener in Cape Town. Rising costs and infrastructure woes are driving many back to Johannesburg, where cheaper housing and stronger job prospects are reversing the semigration trend.

While Joburg’s leaders make promises to residents, they are simply not in control of what they are doing. The mayor, the ANC’s Dada Morero, has now revealed his obvious desperation and small but important errors show that no one is really in charge.

The SADC Tribunal’s powers were terminated in 2012 after it ruled that then Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s seizure of white farms was illegal.

Hearing firsthand stories from Ukrainians about Russian atrocities can’t help but leave you ashamed of Pretoria’s stance on this awful war.