Saturday, October 31, 2026

MEC Sipho Hlomuka condemns alleged corporal punishment at Gasa High School

MEC Hlomuka condemns alleged corporal punishment at Gasa High School

The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Education, Mr Sipho Emmanuel Hlomuka, has strongly condemned the alleged incident of corporal punishment at Gasa High School in Danny Dalton, under the Zululand District where the school principal is reported to have assaulted a learner, leaving visible bleeding wounds on the learner’s body.

MEC Hlomuka has described the allegations as deeply concerning and

Home Affairs has arrested three more people for passport photo-swapping fraud

The Minister of Home Affairs, Dr Leon Schreiber, welcomes the arrest of two former Home Affairs officials and a member of the public in connection with passport photo-swapping fraud committed in 2023 at the Bothaville Home Affairs office in the Free State.

The arrests follow an investigation by the Department's Counter Corruption Unit

Health Department notes High Court judgment on antiretroviral tender and assures patients of uninterrupted supply

The Department of Health has taken note of the Pretoria High Court judgment delivered on 20 October 2026 in the review proceedings brought by Hetero and Cipla concerning items 13 and 23 of the antiretroviral tender, HP13-2025ARV, which relate to the first-line HIV treatment regimen containing tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir (TLD) combination.

The Department welcomes the Court's ruling dismissing Hetero’s review

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment on extension of nominations for the Interim Industry Advisory Committee on Waste Tyre Regulations, 2017

The Waste Management Bureau hereby extends the application of the Government Notice calling for nominations of suitable persons to be appointed as members of the Interim Industry Advisory Committee (Interim IAC), as published in Government Gazette No. 54907 of Government Notice R.7636 on 26 June 2026. 

The call is for the nomination of suitable members to serve in the Interim IAC to

ReAutomated adds robot palletising and case packing cells to existing South African packing lines

A retrofitted robotic palletising cell at the end of an existing roller conveyor, with yellow safety guarding and an emergency stop beside the pallet station in a Kempton Park packing hall.

The Kempton Park integrator retrofits robot cells, cobots, guarding and controls onto live packing lines, starting from a survey of the line already on site.

SOUTH AFRICA, October 30, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Plenty of South African packing halls still end the old way: a conveyor runs out at a pallet, and two people lift every carton by hand for the whole shift. The conveyor, the case

Germiston's Locor puts its motor rewinding, drive repair and onsite fault-finding services online for industrial plants

A rewound three-phase motor stator with new copper windings beside its rotor and fresh bearings on a workbench in a Germiston motor repair workshop.

A rewound three-phase motor stator with new copper windings beside its rotor and fresh bearings on a workbench in a Germiston motor repair workshop.

The Germiston workshop rewinds AC and DC motors, repairs variable speed drives and soft starters, and sends technicians to site for fault finding.

GERMISTON, SOUTH AFRICA, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A conveyor motor that trips every time the supply comes back after a power cut is not always a motor problem. It can be the drive, a loose termination, a tired

Medical platform designed by Nigerien innovator Mamane Kabirou Ousseini wins Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

2026 Africa Prize Winner, Mamane Kabirou Ousseini/Photo Credit: Johan Ryneners_Royal Academy of Engineering

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, October 28, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Mamane Kabirou Ousseini becomes the first engineer from Niger to participate in and win the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, receiving £50,000 award for Likita Care, a medical monitoring