Cosatu is adamant that its Special National Congress scheduled to take place next week will go on without disruption.

Despite media reports that depicts prisoners living ‘nice life’ in their cells, ex-convict and Founder of Taursrac Foundation, Martin Mahlamvu says it’s not true that life is good behind bars.

Spokesperson for the gold producers, Charmaine Russell says other unions like Solidarity and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are still very much part of the negotiation process.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has allegedly quit collective negotiations with Gold producers, Anglo-Gold Ashanti, Sibanye Gold, Harmony Gold and two other gold producers.
Amcu’s treasurer, Jimmy Gama

National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (Nicro) advocacy manager, Venessa Padayachee, says although prisons are supposed to help prisoners to be rehabilitated, conditions in some prisons make it impossible for inmates to be rehabilitated.

The family of slain former Lesotho army commander Maaparankoe Mahao has written to the government of Lesotho saying it does not accept unofficial hints that he will have an official state funeral.

Bally Chuene, representative of the synagogue church in SA talking about the report on the TB Joshua church collapse.

Botched traditional circumcisions in South Africa is a national crisis that needs to be dealt with by all stakeholders concerned.  That's according to Deputy Minister for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Obed Bapela.

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