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Daily English South Africa News · Daily News
1,663 Episodes
1192 – 1212

FULL ADDRESS | IEC gives update on progress of local government elections

The IEC gave an update on the progress of the local government elections. Although voter turnout has been said to be low across SA, it has been an eventful election day, with protests of service delivery also taking place in parts of the country. Some South Africans used the day to…
1 Nov 2021 3PM 57 min

Helen Zille opens assault case after clash with police at EC voting station

Police watchdog Ipid is investigating a case of assault against an Eastern Cape police officer who is accused of dragging DA federal council chair Helen Zille out of the Fernwood Park Primary School voting station in Bethelsdorp on Monday. An internal police report indicated that Zille had opened a case…
1 Nov 2021 12PM 1 min

Citizens need to take seriously the impact of the electoral system 

Despite most areas starting election day on a good footing, there were some communities protesting about service delivery and interruptions which may have disrupted the voting process. The IEC addressed some of these disruptions during a media briefing on Monday afternoon. Lecturer in the department of political and international studies…
1 Nov 2021 11AM 6 min

IEC identifies cases of electoral fraud

SA’s 2021 local government elections have got off to a fair start, with more than 99% of the 23,148 voting stations opening on time and getting under way with the voting process as planned. Unfortunately, in a briefing given by the Electoral Commission of SA's (IEC's) chairperson Glen Mashinini halfway…
1 Nov 2021 10AM 2 min

Election day off to a good start, but not without a few hiccups

In an update provided by the IEC on Monday afternoon, the electoral body said the elections had got off to a positive start with more than 99% of the 23,148 voting stations opened on time to kickstart voting in the 2021 Municipal Elections. However, the IEC outlined several problem it…
1 Nov 2021 8AM 9 min

Transgender teen recounts her battles with home affairs

The department of home affairs has continued to come under criticism for the discrimination of non-binary people, especially transgender people. This is in relation to the process of changing one's legal markers, including name and gender, on various legal documentation. This is the unfortunate reality of a Johannesburg pupil who…
29 Oct 2021 10AM 5 min

Rampant plant poaching threatens SA’s biodiversity

SA’s rare and endangered succulents, some hundreds of years old and growing only on specific mountain slopes, are being wiped out by poachers. Plant poaching, warns World Wildlife Fund SA (WWF SA), as well as private nursery owners and collectors, have exploded in the country since January, with international organised…
29 Oct 2021 9AM 7 min

Gauteng government to take legal action against the Independent Media group

The Gauteng Provincial Government notes a report released by the Independent Media group in which very serious allegations are made against medical practitioners, nursing staff and hospital management. Vuyo Mhaga, spokesperson to Premier David Makhura says that the province plans to take legal action against the media house.
27 Oct 2021 11AM 1 min

Study finds vaccine sentiment is trending downwards

It is now widely understood that receiving the COVID-19 vaccine is the most successful measure to combat the disease and set world economies back on a growth path.  However, an ongoing study by a team of well-being researchers, called the Gross National Happiness Today Project, indicates that vaccine attitudes globally…
27 Oct 2021 9AM 6 min

Does taking a knee mean anything if it is compulsory?

Eusebius McKaiser, host of Eusebius on TimesLIVE, challenged Cricket South Africa's Lawson Naidoo to explain what value forcing Protea's players to take the knee has if it is not voluntary. Naidoo conceded that the moral and political value of symbolism is diminished when it is mandatory.
27 Oct 2021 3AM 1 min

“We didn't consult with the team”- CSA's Lawson Naidoo

Cricket South Africa's (CSA) Lawson Naidoo admits to Eusebius on TimesLIVE host, Eusebius McKaiser, that the CSA board did not consult with the team before instituting its new policy directive, which requires that the Proteas take a knee before their matches in a show of solidarity against racism.
27 Oct 2021 3AM 1 min

Zuma loses special plea bid to have prosecutor Downer removed

Former president Jacob Zuma has lost his bid to have lead prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer removed from his corruption trial. Pietermaritzburg high court judge Piet Koen said Zuma’s application — that Downer had no title to prosecute in the matter because he was biased — was incorrect in both law…
26 Oct 2021 5AM 2 min

Government insurance bungling ‘is why SA food prices are soaring’

SA Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria)’s delays in paying multimillion-rand claims for the rebuilding of food cold storage infrastructure damaged in the July violence are spiking food prices. Bearing the brunt of rising costs, say food price experts, are the poor.
25 Oct 2021 4AM 6 min
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