Political analyst, Ralph Mathekge says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has to prove that the extra-marital affairs emails are not authentic. Ramphosa lost a court bid last night, to stop the Sunday Independent Newspaper from publishing an alleged sex scandal which implicates him. The South Gauteng High Court found that Ramaphosa had not placed sufficient evidence to show that the matter was urgent.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost a court bid, to stop the Sunday Independent Newspaper from publishing an alleged sex scandal which implicates him.

SRC president on the Buffalo City campus of Walter Sisulu University, Luyanda Mgobo, says they will not sit idly and allow a student's democratic right to education being violated. Legal action will be taken against a university student who failed to disclose an erroneous deposit of 14- million-rand from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) in her account. Students at the university in the Eastern Cape have expressed mixed feelings to the on-going investigations into the incident. Mgobo says the student is not entirely to blame for the incident

Thirty girls attending a school at Kuruman in the Northern Cape have been impregnated, allegedly by teachers. The learners of Bothitong High School says they are being paid stipends for having unprotected sex with male teachers.

Author and Honorary Professor of Botany at the University of the Free State, Rodney Moffett has published a book on Basotho Medicinal Plants, Meriana ya Dimela Tsa Basotho.

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State (UFS), Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says the debate that traditional medicine is not scientific is not going to take the country anywhere.

Harmony Gold says challenging conditions are continuing to hamper the recovery process at its Kusasalethu mine where two mineworkers remain trapped underground. Management says rescue teams are continuing to work tirelessly to recover the mineworkers at the mine on the West Rand.
Three bodies have already been brought to the surface. The mineworkers were trapped underground after a fall at the mine on Friday morning. Operations at the mine remain suspended.

Nsfas spokesperson Kagiso Mamabolo says they need to reassure their stakeholders that such a blunder will not happen again. This comes after Nsfas erroneously gave a Walter Sisulu University student R14 million. The student will have action taken against them.

It has emerged that the National Students' Finance Aid Scheme (Nsfas) has erroneously given a Walter Sisulu University student R14 million. A library on the university’s Zamukulungisa Campus in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape was torched on Monday night. This follows students' protests related to financial exclusion at the Nelson Mandela Drive and Zamukulungisa campuses.Students claim that a number of them are excluded from the NSFAS programme. The student who got the millions was only supposed to get R1 400. University spokesperson, Yonela Tukwayo says they will take action against the student.

Director of Pharmacology at the University of the Free State, Dr. Motlalepula Matsabisa says more 80% of South African rely on traditional medicine and the usage continues to grow.