Roma Nna - Prioritising our communities

By Karabo Ntanzi Pastor Anthony Malan, founder of Mercy Family Ministry, did not have a stable home growing up because his mother disappeared when he was 6years old, because of forced marriage to a man in Lesotho. Malan was left with…

After a convincing test series victory earlier in the month against the West Indies, Proteas head coach Rob Walter and his team head to East London to battle it out in the first of three one-day internationals. The Proteas will come up…

By: Siphiwe Ngcongco  The Premier’s Mme Re Ka Thuso trust fund this week hosted a three-day workshop in Magareng for small business enterprises at the Warrenton cultural resort. The small business colloquium was held in collaboration…

By Karabo Siyoko  The Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) last week held its annual stakeholder forum on the work done for small enterprises in the last financial (2021/22) year at the Kalahari Lodge. The event had about 40…

Professional golf caddy Tumi “Spoja” Makhele, who died at the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe hospital after battling a short illness spell, was laid to rest in a moving ceremony held at the Kimberley City hall last Saturday. Makhele was…

By: Siphiwe Ngcongco The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and members of the South African Democratic Students Movement (SADESMO) conducted a door-to-door prelaunch campaign in the Northern Cape last weekend. Petros Ngubane, the Umzinyathi…

Sixty eight young, unemployed agriculture candidates on Thursday graduated from the Northern Cape’s Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform’s two-year on-the-job training programme. The…

By: Siphiwe Ngcongco The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has paid out almost half a billion rands to 114 000 beneficiaries in the Northern Cape according to Commissioner Teboho Maruping who visited Kimberley this week to brief on the…

By: Siphiwe Ngcongco The national strike by the National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) continued unabated this week as the union protested against a 3% salary increase and austerity measure introduced by the…

Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Commissioner Teboho Maruping has joined forensic auditors knocking on the doors of employers who benefited from the Covid-19 TERS Relief Scheme in Cape Town as part of Phase Two of the "follow the money"…