Blade Nzimande. (Photo: SACP via Twitter) South Africa's stimulus package is merely the rearranging of existing budgets by de-funding other government programmes, says SACP general-secretary Blade Nzimande. He claimed there were forces within National Treasury and the SA Reserve Bank holding on tightly to discredited neo-liberal style fundamentalism. Nzimande also said the SACP feared excellent…
Higher Education and Science and Technology Minister Blade Nzimande. Morapedi Mashashe, Daily Sun Blade Nzimande has appointed a task team to review Unisa.He also appointed a team to probe the remuneration of vice-chancellors and senior executives at universities.The higher education, science and technology department's budget cut by almost R10 billion.Minister of Higher Education, Science and…
Multiple inquiries have been set up to probe issues within the higher education sector. Among the inquiries is to look into the administration of students' financial aid by NSFAS. Another inquiry will assess the salaries of vice-chancellors and executives at public universities.Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Blade Nzimande has appointed a Ministerial Committee…
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out