Bongani Nkosi

Multimedia Journalist, The Star

‘Farmworker murderer wants special treatment in prison’

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Petrus Willem Johannes Durandt, the jailed cold-blooded murderer of a Krugersdorp farmworker, comes across as someone who wants special treatment in prison, a judge ...

Alternative matric for adults shelved

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The Department of Higher Education has shelved plans to start enrolment into the alternative matric qualification for adults and out-of-school youth by this year. ...

A novel case of a retired civil servant who accrued 468 leave days

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The Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism is embroiled in a court battle with a retiree who amassed a whopping 468 leave days during ...

There’s no learner-teacher ratio policy: Motshekga

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A reply by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has laid bare that the government has no legally-binding policy to ensure public school classrooms are not overcrowded. ...

Government refuses to pay R114m for a 10km road

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The construction of a 10km tar road in Molelema and Matsheng villages, North West, has been halted for more than a year now as the government disputes that it should ...

Circular indicates that learners under 12 have been vaccinated without consent

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A circular sent out by the Eastern Cape Department of Education has indicated that learners under the age of 12 have been vaccinated at schools without parents and ...

More could join fraud-accused Tonic Chabalala in the dock

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IT has become apparent that former Orlando Pirates player Tonic Chabalala did not act alone in his alleged fraudulent activities that cost the City of Joburg R15 ...

Tonic Chabalala granted bail

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Former Orlando Pirates player Tonic Chabalala has been granted bail. The Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Palm Ridge, Gauteng, set his bail at R4000. He had ...

19 years on, the government is still trying to develop a model for subsidised public transport

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Some subsidised bus contracts have been extended on a month-to-month basis for 19 years now as the government grapples to implement a permanent funding model for ...

Judge spells it out to false rape victims that police can arrest on reasonable suspicion

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Three men from Tsakane, Gauteng, who spent 15 days in jail after being arrested over a false gang rape charge have lost their R3 million civil claim against the ...

Scores of qualifying people missed out on the R350 grants, department reveals

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‘The beneficiaries of the Special R350 Covid-19 grant are most likely in rural areas, less educated, less tech-savvy, and heavily reliant on word of mouth communication. ...

59 prison escapees remain on the loose

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Fifty-nine inmates who escaped from the country’s prisons over the last six years have not been re-arrested. With 39, the sentenced prisoners made up the majority ...

Steps to repeal remnants of colonial laws kick off

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Steps have been taken to flush out remnants of colonial and apartheid-era laws that can still be applied in the former Transkei. The South African Law Reform Commission ...

Biological father goes to court to be declared a father, mother opposes

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A pair of parents embroiled in a legal squabble in which the mother disputes that the father has parental rights and responsibilities have been referred to mediation. ...

Are e-hailing cab drivers employees or not? Nedlac is on a mission to find out

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A process under way at the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) is looking into whether ...

Attach pension of maintenance defaulters, proposes legal reforms body

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Child maintenance defaulters who quit work as a way of dodging their obligations have something coming their way.

Teachers killed by Covid-19 have been replaced, says Motshekga

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The excess deaths of teachers due to Covid-19 since its outbreak has not created problems for public education because the departed have been replaced, Basic Education ...

Motshekga: There’s no money to build classrooms

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has blamed the floods disaster for what she claims is lack of funds to build more classrooms in the country. EFF MP Mathapelo ...

Report highlights lack of learning through play at SA crèches

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A census report commissioned by the Basic Education Department has shone light on the lack of learning through play in the country’s early childhood development ...

Dedicated lanes for taxis and buses mooted

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The national Transport Department has mooted dedicated lanes on the country’s roads for taxis and all buses. Its newly gazetted White Paper on National Transport ...

Minister Bheki Cele defends unqualified SAPS senior managers

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Police Minister Bheki Cele has come to the defence of officers in senior management of the SAPS without requisite qualifications. Cele has placed the number of such ...

Police cough up for arresting holy man without doing investigation

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A police officer who admitted to arresting a pastor for violating a protection order he did not bother to ascertain if it existed has cost the taxpayer. Benjamin ...

30 border posts remain closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak

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Exactly 30 border posts that were closed following the Covid-19 outbreak remained closed due to a lack of health officials. Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi ...

Concourt frees student who fatally stabbed a policeman

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A High Court judge who sentenced Unisa law student Liqhayiya Tuta to life imprisonment four years ago, made an error of law by overlooking his state of mind when ...