Teacher unions and the School Governing Body Council of SA have blasted the Limpopo basic education department’s decision to stop education assistants from furthering their studies.

Households and business owners who are already struggling to stay afloat because of the high cost of living, should brace themselves as the price of chicken products keeps rising.

Police minister Bheki Cele has promised to deal with crime in Diepsloot by bringing in 16 patrolling vehicles and deploying detectives to investigate 11 unsolved murders from last year.

Penning the minority ruling, acting justice Dhaya Pillay pointed out that wrongfulness could not be established due to the omissions by the police.

Tears of relief flowed from some of the supporters of ANC Women's League (ANCWL) president Bathabile Dlamini as she managed to evade a custodial sentence in her perjury conviction before the Johannesburg magistrate's court.

The worsening decline of NUM and other industrial unions will weaken the capacity of Cosatu as the country's biggest federation in its role to defend workers from both big business and the government.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has continued to bleed membership as its efforts to recruit more members fail while defections and retrenchments have harmed the once dominant trade union.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on ANC alliance partners to intervene in the internal battles confronting the governing party.

The water and sanitation department was on Tuesday grilled over its multiple shortcomings in the delivery of water and sanitation services to communities, in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP).

“No-one can stop me if I’m with the community…this is the time that we live and die for our people."