Development

South Africans need to apply the kind of courage they did in the fight against apartheid in the fight against corruption.
 
According to Thabo Makgoba‚ the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, who joined more than 1 000 Capetonians in the ‘United against Corruption March’ to Parliament.
 
Addressing the crowd‚ which included ordinary citizens and members of different civil society groups like the Right To Know‚ Social Justice Coalition‚ United Front and Equal Education‚ Makgoba encouraged South Africans to speak up.
 

The Department of Communications says the Northern Cape households will be the first to experience broadcast digital migration in South Africa.
 
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi, has launched the registration process for set-top-boxes at one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) communities in Keimoes near Upington.
 
The set-top-boxes are key in migrating from analogue to digital and according to Muthambi's spokesperson, Mish Molakeng, this is a very significant development.
 

Western Cape High Court judge Ashley Binns-Ward ruled in favour of the City of Cape Town when he set aside the South African National Roads Agency’s (SANRAL) Winelands Tolling Project.

City of Cape Town mayor, Patricia de Lille, described the Western Cape High Court’s decision to scrap the Winelands Toll Roads Project as a ‘victory for all South Africans’.

Judge Ashley Binns-Ward set aside the SANRAL’s decision to toll sections of the N1 and N2 and also set aside the Transport Minister’s 2008 decision to declare sections of the N1 and N2 as toll roads.

The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) has been left to contemplate its legal options in the wake of losing its fight to proceed with tolling in the Western Cape.

This follows a ruling by the Western Cape High Court Judge, Ashley Binns-Ward, ruled in favour of the City of Cape Town, effectively scrapping the Winelands Toll Project.

In his judgement, the transport minister’s 2008 decision declaring the N1 and N2 as toll roads was set aside, along with SANRAL’s attempts to have portions of the roads tolled.

Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife has come out strongly against coal mining on the borderline of its flagship Hluhluwe-Imfolozi game reserve, warning that the proposed mine would ‘destroy’ large sections of Africa’s oldest game reserve and wilderness area.

Noting that it had a legal duty and mandate to protect and conserve the biological environment of the province, Ezemvelo says it could not ‘wilfully sacrifice’ a reserve dating from 1895, or attempt to create a new wilderness area somewhere else in the province to replace it.

South Africa is almost dead last among 140 countries in terms of its maths and science education, according to this year's World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness report.
 
Last year's report also put the country last out of 148 countries and the report for 2015/16 painted a dismal picture, with South Africa placed at 138 out of 140 countries.
 
The only two countries ranked lower were Egypt and Paraguay and in terms of Internet access in schools, South Africa was 119 out of 140.