The Democratic Alliance and ActionSA have called for a formal investigation after Defence Minister Angie Motshekga confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa had issued instructions barring Iran’s participation

The presidency said sustainable peace and stability could only be achieved through solutions that centred on the agency of the Iranian people

SCORE: F The year 2025 was a baptism of fire for Motshekga, one of the worst performing ministers in the government of national unity. After South African soldiers were sent on an ill-fated deployment in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and returned home with bloody noses, humiliated by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels who took over Goma, […]

SCORE: F- So broken and badly managed is the department of defence that three men on a donkey with a duct-taped drone could possibly topple Pretoria. The department incurred unauthorised expenditure of R3.4 billion in 2023-24, making it not so much a department as a place where taxpayer money goes to cough up and die. […]

Siwive Gwarube’s political party, the Democratic Alliance, has previously described the Bill as a threat to the autonomy of schools

French economic presence in South Africa is solid, with nearly 500 companies representing more than 65 000 direct jobs

Learners have been adversely affected by damage to schools from extreme weather events such as floods

The Centre for Development and Enterprise has estimated that South Africa will need 456,000 teachers by 2025 for the country to offer quality education

The general education certificate will recognise learner achievements at the end of the compulsory schooling phase

On 11 March 1990, 50 years of Soviet occupation came to an end

Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe had to leave the national executive committee meeting where only five NEC members supported the adoption of the integrity commission report

ANC leaders including Pravin Gordhan, Angie Motsekga and Lindiwe Zulu have been left off the list

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This comes as the department of basic education says that although there are challenges, public education is ‘thriving’

The class of 2023 has obtained the second-highest results in the history of the NSC, according to the basic education department

Bold strides have been made in unravelling apartheid’s systems of education but there is still a lot to be done to achieve equality