AllAfrica News: South Africa

[Africa Check] IN SHORT: A video claiming that Cape Town is officially a province of the US, after South Africa's Democratic Alliance party secured a loan from the "Bezos Foundation", is circulating online. But this claim is false, and the audio shared as evidence has been fabricated.

[Parliament of South Africa] The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), an agency mandated to address youth unemployment, is renting offices in a posh part of Johannesburg, which is inaccessible to the very people it must serve. This week, the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities slammed this disconnect between agency's resource allocation and the...

[Daily Maverick] The sacred script banning the I word has been trashed and the Me Generation, the I Specialists and the Lived Experience Battalion all have got hold of headlines to a laughable and astoundingly dull degree.

[Daily Maverick] Experts say a leak this size on her property is unlikely, while the City insists on a 50% payment before engaging in dispute resolution.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Acting National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane, on Tuesday welcomed the sentencing of two former police officers, alongside three accomplices to 17 years' imprisonment for defeating the ends of justice and corruption.