The decision by Police Minister Senzo Mchunu to disband the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) has come under renewed scrutiny, with MPs divided over whether he acted independently and why the directive was issued on New Year’s Eve in 2024. As the ad hoc committee investigating police corruption works towards finalising its report, questions remain over the circumstances surrounding Mchunu’s directive. ANC MP Khusela Sangoni Diko maintained that Mchunu took full responsibility for the decision and was not influenced by…

A team of infrastructure experts dispatched by the North West Department of Education to two schools engulfed by fire over the weekend near Rustenburg will soon provide a comprehensive report to quantify the extent of the damage to the affected schools. In the first incident, a fire destroyed the school hall at Matlhare Mokautu Secondary School in Monakato Township on Friday, while another blaze gutted a block of five workshops and a storeroom at Sewagodimo Technical School in Pella Village…

Thousands of South African farm workers who were supposed to gain greater ownership and participation in commercial agriculture are still waiting for the benefits promised through government-funded equity schemes. The failure of the programmes has prompted Parliament’s Land Reform and Rural Development Committee to demand a forensic investigation into how more than R700 million in public money was spent. Committee chairperson Albert Mncwango said the focus should now be on establishing why the schemes failed and what can be done…