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MATRIC CLASS 2024 @KASIBCNEWS The African National Congress (ANC) proudly celebrates the outstanding achievements of the Matric Class of 2024. Their success stands as a testament to the transformative power of ANC policies that have, over the three decades of democracy, reshaped South Africa’s education system into one that prioritises equity, access and quality as espoused by the Freedom Charter.  The Class of 2024 achieved a historic 87.3% pass rate, the highest in the country's history. This remarkable milestone reflects the resilience of learners, educators, and parents, as well as the decisive role of successive ANC-led administrations' interventions in education. It is particularly inspiring that 67% of Bachelor passes were achieved by learners from Quintile 1 to 3 schools, underscoring the ANC’s commitment to uplifting historically disadvantaged communities.  These achievements reflect decades of targeted ANC policies, from introducing no-fee schools, which now boast a...

GAUTENG BACK-TO-SCHOOL CAMPAIGN @KASIBCEVENTS  Gauteng Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Human Settlements Tasneem Motara will tomorrow visit three schools in the Sedibeng region to assess their readiness for the first day of school for the 2025 academic year under the theme Delivering Quality Education in a Modern Environment.  MEC Motara will also host a stakeholder meeting with key parties in the education sector to better understand issues of education in the Region.   The schools are General Smuts Secondary School in Vereeniging, Thuto Lore Secondary School in Sharpeville, and Mohlodi Maritime School of Specialisation in Sharpeville.  The details of the visits are as follows:  Venue 1: General Smut Secondary (Van Riebeek Street , Vereeniging) Time: 7:00am Date: 15 January 2025   Venue 2: Thuto Lore Secondary School (7120 Sharpeville) Time: 09:00am  Venue 3: Mohlodi Maritime School of Specialisation ( Zwane Street, Sharpeville) Ti...

SOUTH AFRICA A WAR ZONE @KASIBCNEWS This morning’s shooting in Nyanga, which claimed one life and injured seven others, alongside the murder of nine people at a tavern in Mpumalanga over the weekend, underscores the SAPS’s inability to act proactively and the lack of crime intelligence. The Minister of Police’s recent revelation that 9,000 people were killed in mass shootings between 2019 and 2023 highlights the severity of the crime crisis in our country. Citizens and police officers alike live in fear, with a growing number of officers themselves becoming victims of violent crime. We need significant change with regards to crime intelligence to ensure that these incidents can be stopped before they happen. Most of these incidents are planned and can be prevented if the right intelligence structures are in place. This would entail amongst others a skills audit to determine whether the right people are in positions and to introduce well-trained recruits to start building relevant local...

SCHOOL SAFETY TO PROTECT LEARNERS AND EDUCATORS #KASIBCNEWS  As schools across Gauteng reopen for the 2025 academic year tomorrow, the Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s Portfolio Committee on Community Safety has called on various Government Departments to prioritize the implementation of recommendations of a Focused Intervention Study (FIS) on School Safety. The FIS titled “Assessing the Effectiveness of School Safety Interventions in Fighting Crime in Gauteng Schools”, was tabled and formally adopted during a House Sitting of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature last year and was jointly conducted by the Portfolio Committees on Community Safety and Education as a result of the prevalence of violent crimes in Gauteng schools. The FIS was focused on assessing the effectiveness of programmes of various government departments, which are aimed at creating safer learning environments at schools across the province. Amongst others, the objectives of the study were to investigate factors co...

ARREST OF ANC COUNCILLORS @KASIBCNEWS  The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes reports of the arrest of ANC Councillor Tobius Malope, who was recently elected to the Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality Council. He was arrested on allegations of extortion of a contractor in a construction project. The extortion allegations against him are grave, and we expect that he will be suspended immediately. Unfortunately, such allegations are not new for ANC councillors in Limpopo, a province that has long struggled to attract investment and create job opportunities due to rampant corruption. Local ANC Councillors, like Malope, hailed by the ANC as being “among the best to represent the best”, have usually shown more interest in personal enrichment than in addressing the needs of struggling residents. Elias Motsoaledi Municipality has faced persistent service delivery issues, with many communities lacking access to water and job opportunities. The DA continues to fight against construction mafi...

KHOI SAN JOINS GNU @KASIBCNEWS  *The GNU Must Not Turn a Blind Eye to the Khoisan Question of Indigenous People* The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) unequivocally supports the quest for recognition and inclusion of the Khoisan people as the aboriginal and indigenous owners of the land south of Africa.  It is worth the good of the national agenda to engage their spokespersons in earnest dialogue, rather than shove their concerns under the carpet and call upon the courts to treat them as vagrants on the grounds of the Union Buildings. The failure of the authorities to make the hairline distinction between form and content is appalling, to say the least. The form of protestations is superseded by the content of the matters they raise for the immediate attention of the office of the State President. The PAC therefore calls on the Government of National Unity, in which we play a role, to take up the question of the rights of the First Nation people to be unapologetically in...

SESFIKILE YACHT TO ROBBEN ISLAND @KASIBCNEWS  The African National Congress (ANC) has noted with concern certain misleading narratives surrounding the mode of transport utilised by the Secretary General, Comrade Fikile Mbalula, during the recent visit to Robben Island as part of the ANC’s 113th Anniversary commemorations.  We categorically reject the misrepresentation that the Secretary General’s transport choice was an indulgence in luxury. This operational decision was guided solely by practical and logistical considerations to ensure the efficient execution of a tightly packed programme. The Secretary General had an intense schedule on the day, which began in Robben Island, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony in honour of Comrade Songezo Mjongile, a regional cake-cutting ceremony and multiple stakeholder engagements.  Every engagement required precise coordination to ensure that all obligations were met without delay or disruption. To suggest that such logistical deci...