Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Phill Magakoe, Gallo Images The DA and FF Plus called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.This after Ramaphosa sanctioned her for taking ANC officials on an air force jet to Zimbabwe.The opposition parties say the sanction isn't serious enough. President Cyril Ramaphosa's reprimand of…
Songezo Mjongile (Archive) Tributes are pouring in for former ANC Western Cape provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile who died. He announced in April that he had been diagnosed with colon cancer. His death on Thursday came as a shock to friends and fellow politicians who held him in high regard.The ANC Youth League in the Western Cape was…
The ANC's integrity commission wants to meet with secretary-general Ace Magashule.The commission wrote to Magashule to seek a meeting with him. Magashule said in an interview in July that he will not step aside due to corruption allegations. As anticipation grows around whether the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) will decide that all corruption accused should step aside,…
Junior miners have hailed the recent discussion document released by the ANC titled Reconstruction, Growth and Transformation: Building A New, Inclusive Economy.The document proposes retail investors should be incentivised to back mining exploration.Junior and emerging miners make up nearly 40% of the total membership of the Minerals Council.But they have been hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic,…
Chief Albert Luthuli House, the ANCs headquarters, photographed on October 10, 2012 in Johannesburg. (Gallo Images/Sowetan/Antonio Muchave) On Tuesday, Luthuli House sent out a message to staff to say their June salaries will be delayed. Staff can only expect to be paid by 6 July, the letter stated. General manager Febe Potgieter said the delay was a…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain In the United States, 1 in every 250 people has inherited a genetic variant that leads to dangerously high cholesterol levels from birth. If high cholesterol isn't lowered early, people with this genetic condition, called familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), have a high risk of having a heart attack or stroke as early
I was officially diagnosed with Lupus in May of 2021. I say officially because my symptoms started long before that, I just didn't know it. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can cause inflammation and pain in different parts of the body. Your immune system is meant to help your body fight infection. But