The Department of Basic Education has achieved a major milestone by completing all pit toilet eradication projects identified under the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) initiative. According to the Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube, all 3,372 pit toilets identified during the 2018 national audit have now been replaced with safe and appropriate sanitation facilities. “This achievement means that schools across the country now have access to safer and more dignified sanitation facilities. More than three million learners have…

More than 200 alleged illegal miners, commonly known as zama-zamas, have been arrested during an ongoing operation at an open field near Sibanye-Stillwater’s Losberg Shaft in Westonaria in Tuesday. Gauteng Police Deputy Commissioner Fred Kekana confirmed the latest figure during Operation Prosper, an integrated operation involving the police, the South African National Defence Force and mine security personnel. The operation was still under way on Tuesday, with scores of suspects lying face-down on the ground while officers processed them. Their…

The Madlanga Commission continues to comb through the WhatsApp messages of Major-General Feros Khan, the suspended deputy head of crime intelligence, while he remains bedridden in hospital after being shot. Evidence leader Adila Hassim used the chats to demonstrate how Khan allegedly used his influence within the police and other government departments to enrich himself and his associates. In one of the messages, Khan suggests to his associate Ismail Vally, who owns Kaizen Motor Spares, that they had undercharged in…