National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza had to power through a deluge of opposition to proceed with a plenary sitting to consider and adopt a report that may put paid to finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s contentious budget.
Social Development Minister Nokuzola Tolashe has strongly condemned the brutal, ‘mind-numbing’ rape of a seven-year-old pupil from an Eastern Cape school, and has demanded justice for her.
The National Prosecuting Authority says the judge who acquitted Nigerian televangelist Timothy Omotoso and his two co-accused did so on a technicality and it is for this reason that the state will study the judgment and decide which legal avenues to explore.
AfriForum has called on international governments to impose sanctions against EFF leader Julius Malema over the “kill the Boer” chant, as well as others who are “guilty of gross human rights violations through their public calls for violence against Afrikaners and farmers”.
Diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg has asked for his bail application to be postponed yet again, blaming the latest delay on his incarceration in the maximum-security section of a Pretoria prison.
US President Donald Trump was set to impose sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday as he proclaimed “Liberation Day” in the country, escalating a trade war with global partners, risking cost increases and upending a decades-old trade order.