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Head coach Mark Jones has named a starting side boasting five changes for the crucial Pool A encounter against France at Athlone Stadium on Tuesday 4th July in the U20 World Rugby Championship. (Live S4C, 3.30pm UK) There is just the one change in the backline where Ospreys winger Tom Florence gets his first start …
Flyhalf Jean Smith – the Junior Springboks leading scorer in their 2023 World Rugby Under-20 Championship campaign – will resume his role as the starting No 10 when South Africa take on Argentina at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Tuesday. Smith played in the team’s opening Pool C match against Georgia on the first …
The 2023 National Arts Festival in Makhanda is drawing to a close today after a successful eleven days. Late on Saturday night (1 July), the Festival, and its partner Standard Bank, held a ceremony to recognise the shows that stood out on the National Arts Festival’s Fringe with the winners in the Standard Bank Ovation …
The Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, has appointed Yanga Mputa as the Tax Ombud effective from 1 July 2023 for a period of five years.
South Africa’s top schoolboys will have the chance to shine at the SA Rugby U18 Craven Week, which will be staged at Outeniqua Park in George over the next six days. The second tournament in SA Rugby’s 2023 Youth Weeks programme will run from 3 to 8 July, with 16 teams competing across the matches …
Dragons RFC will return to private ownership this summer after an agreement was reached with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU). Following a thorough and detailed process, a Heads of Terms agreement has been signed today (Friday, 30th June) on a deal which will benefit all relevant stakeholders in the Welsh professional game. The new deal …
>Rory Telfer (Ireland) and Yoshiki Omachi (Japan) will each appear before separate independent Disciplinary Committees having received red cards in their respective World Rugby U20 Championship 2023 matches on Thursday, as will James McNabney (Ireland) having been cited. Rory Telfer (Ireland) Ireland replacement Rory Telfer will appear before an independent judicial committee on Saturday, 1 …
Sri Lanka player Wanindu Hasaranga has been reprimanded for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier match against Netherlands on Friday at Queen’s Sports Club in Bulawayo. Hasaranga was found to have breached Article 2.2 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player …
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2023 has approved a player replacement. In the Sri Lanka squad, left-hand batter and right-arm off-spin bowler Sahan Arachchige has replaced Lahiru Kumara, who was ruled out due to a side strain suffered in Friday’s match against the Netherlands. The replacement of a …
Brandon McMullen shone with bat and ball as Scotland earned another landmark victory over West Indies to keep their ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup dreams alive. Having beaten the same opponents in last year’s ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Scotland repeated the feat with a seven-wicket success which had McMullen at its heart. The all-rounder …
Chery this week celebrated its first large fleet transaction, when it handed 100 Chery Tiggo 4 Pro models to Hertz Rent A Car. The hand-over took place at a small ceremony at the Hertz Rent a Car Head Offices, where Chunqing Chen, Vice President of Chery International and Director of Chery South Africa, and Tony …
Sri Lanka were truly tested for the first time at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2023, but big performances from Dhananjaya de Silva and Maheesh Theekshana got them out of trouble against the Netherlands. Dhananjaya made 93, his best ODI score, to help Sri Lanka recover from 96 for six to make 213. …
11th Hour Racing Team has won the Genoa In-Port Race, the final battle of The Ocean Race 2022-23, bagging the US team the top spot in the overall In-Port Race Series. The US-flagged team adds the In-Port Race Series trophy to the overall Ocean Race trophy – the first time an American team has won …
President Cyril Ramaphosa has made a determination to increase salaries of all public office bearers by three percent, with effect from effect from 01 April 2022.
This determination follows recommendations made by the Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers (the Commission) on the annual salary for all public office bearers, submitted to the President on 17 April 2023.
The Commission recommended 3.8% salary increment for all public office bearers including members of the Independent Constitutional Institutions, Judges, Magistrates and Traditional Leaders for the financial year 2022/2023.
Having considered the Commission's recommendations and serious economic challenges facing the country, the President has decided that the salaries of all public office bearers be increased by three percent.
The President has in accordance to relevant statutory requirements submitted the notice to Parliament for approval before publication in as far as it relates to salaries of judges and magistrates.
The President wishes to thank the Independent Commission for its recommendations.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency: Republic of South Africa.
The Presidency has noted the report of the Acting Public Protector, Adv Kholeka Gcaleka, which absolves the President of alleged abuse of power or breaches of the Executive Ethics Code in relation to an incident of theft at his privately owned Phala Phala game farm in 2020.
The President has always maintained that he was not party to any wrong doing or violation of his oath of office.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency: Republic of South Africa.
The Cape Town Labour Court has sent Claudine van Wyk’s case back to the CCMA
Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, Judith Tshabalala, has ordered the establishment of a task team to work around the clock in a coordinated manner to ensure that the Metz Dam in Limpopo is rehabilitated and to ensure the safety of communities living adjacent to the dam.
GPO residents voted ANC because they believed their relocation would be delayed if they didn’t, says resident Thozama Nyathela. “We were only being fed empty promises.”
President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured communities in the uThukela District Municipality, in Ladysmith that government Ministers will work to resolve their challenges and that their issues will not be put on the back burner.
Over 178,000 Zimbabweans in South Africa have the special permit allowing them to live and work in the country
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to develop cutting-edge technologies to improve the country’s rural health systems.
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What would a country be without the youth? They are the future, after all. We have experienced how every generation does things in their own special way.
The Friends of Elizabeth Park, in collaboration with the Greater Tygerberg Partnership (GTP), VRCID, Bellville Library, launched a fun Youth Day event attended by over hundred and fifty local community members, at the iconic green Elizabeth Park in Bellville on Saturday, 24 June 2023. The aim of the event was to bring to life the …