Goitsemang Matlhabe

Goitsemang Matlhabe

ANC government blasted for poor treatment of NGOs looking after society’s most vulnerable

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

NGOs in the Gauteng province were forced to take the Department of Social Development to court on an urgent application as a result of the delays in funding and ...

Impact of NHI ‘will pale in comparison to Life Esidimeni tragedy’

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

What happened with the Life Esidimeni tragedy will pale in comparison to what the National Health Insurance (NHI) will end up doing to South Africa’s healthcare ...

Women will continue to be ‘cheap commodity’ if they don’t take up leadership

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The SARA president said given that women represented the highest number of voters, logic should have been that a black woman should have been president, however, ...

Leaders who broke the system can’t be trusted to fix it - Rise Mzansi

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

That democracy had not been felt either, she said, by the millions of women who suffer under the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide in the country on ...

FF+ accuses ‘dismal’ ANC of criticising thriving sporting codes based on colour

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The FF+ has criticised the ANC’s insistence to criticise sporting codes particularly when white individuals and sports people when they have contributed to the achievement. ...

Refugee support organisation calls on SIU to broaden investigation

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The South Africa Refugee-led Network said they believed more needed to be done to address corruption of organisations and departments purporting to be assisting ...

MK Party members undeterred by transport ‘sabotage’

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The 37 000-capacity Orlando Stadium in Soweto would have been packed to the brim had it not been for alleged acts of “sabotage”, MK Party members claimed.

MK PARTY ready to deliver its People’s Manifesto at Orlando Stadium

Goitsemang Matlhabe and Sipho Jack|Published

As hundreds of supporters started making their way to the stadium, MK Party national spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela said party president Jacob Zuma was expected to ...

BLF to be registered as NGO post elections

Goitsemang Matlhabe and Sipho Jack|Published

He said BLF will play a role similar to that of an AfriForum, which, according to him, will play a role as a critical player for the MK.

Non-profit organisations back signing of BELA Bill

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

Section27 announced that it welcomed the National Assembly's passing of the long-awaited Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill, which now awaits the President’s assent. ...

Immigrants the scapegoat for SA’s socio-economic challenges before elections

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change’s latest listing has revealed that immigrants have been increasingly blamed for socio-economic issues plaguing South ...

ANC Education chair accused of bulldozing BELA Bill through to National Assembly

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

Voices decry callous manner in which party is using its majority

ActionSA pressures PSC to root out ‘ghost workers’ from state-owned entities

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

It was with this in mind that ActionSA’s Team Fix SA members Mpumi Edward and Sello Lediga delivered a Memorandum of Demands to the Public Service Commission’s offices ...

GOOD Party backs signing of NHI Bill

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

South Africa can simply not abandon its constitutional responsibilities to develop a just and fair state on the basis of the government’s track record of incompetence, ...

SA faces exodus of skilled artisans in the wake of lacklustre wage deal

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The concerns raised by Solidarity Trades’ Network come after Seifsa, as recently as May 13, signed a wage agreement at the Birchwood Conference Centre in Boksburg ...

Call for support for Olympic Athlete Caster Semenya as 10-year legal battle resumes

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

Semenya is appearing before 17 judges as the Swiss government seeks to appeal a July 2023 judgment which ruled in favour of the athlete at the European Court of ...

ANC members urged to hold leaders accountable for implementing legislation endangering education system

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

Civil society groups have called on South Africans and ANC members to call their leaders to order and hold them accountable for implementing legislation which represents ...

Civil society prepare legal teams to challenge NHI Bill signing

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

As the countdown to the signing of the highly contentious National Health Insurance Bill gets under way, civil society organisations are gearing up for the fight ...

ANC KZN confident of retaining stronghold province

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

With the DA forging ahead with growing its support base in the province, Elma Rabe, the party’s KZN spokesperson on the Office of the Premier and Royal Household, ...

Ekurhuleni Metro to beef up security at municipal depots following attack

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The City of Ekurhuleni has come out to strongly condemn the recent attack and robbery of two security guards stationed at the Germiston depot in the early hours ...

Meyiwa trial postponed yet again over new evidence

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

As the trial resumed on Monday following a two-week postponement due to evidence related to the cellphone communication between all the accused dating back to 2018, ...

Rise Mzansi Youth urge voters to elect leaders with acumen to protect future of education

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

With the national and provincial elections in the country less than 20 days away, the young organisation has reminded South Africans that the country was in a water ...

Boy, 5 killed during botched hijacking

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

The father had described how one of the men holding a gun to his head seemed to be on some substance and “trigger happy”.

Police can’t be defeated by untrained criminals, says EFF

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

Just weeks after popular soul and R&B DJ and radio personality Peter Mashata was shot in Soshanguve on April 20, after performing at Epozini lifestyle, the community ...

DA to investigate fake AI letter pleading for ANC coalition

Goitsemang Matlhabe|Published

THE only plans the DA has for the governing ANC party is to remove them from power and not to discuss any plans for a possible coalition. It is for this reason that ...