Mpho Sibanyoni

Johannesburg

News Editor at Sunday World (South Africa)

Digital news editor as well as automated journalism researcher.

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Suspension of official linked to R11.2m missing NUM funds lifted

1 week ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has lifted the suspension of a high-ranking Mpumalanga official implicated in the missing construction and mine workers union funds. Sunday World has been reliably informed that the NUM national executive committee lifted the suspension at its recent meeting in Kempton Park. This publication reported that the NUM Highveld regional official was put on ice after over R11-million in worker subscriptions allegedly went unaccounted for.
NUM suspends official over R11m 'graft, paying bogus suppliers'

3 weeks ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

A National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) high-ranking regional official has been suspended after over R11-million in workers’ subscriptions has allegedly been unaccounted for. According to a source who preferred to remain anonymous, the R11.2-million from Seriti Coal was allegedly paid to an agency bank account which is controlled by Highveld regional leadership instead of the NUM national subscription account.
I’m not going to resign over Starlink: Solly Malatsi tells parly

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi on Wednesday told parliament that he is not going anywhere. Malatsi was responding to an Umkhonto We Sizwe Party question about whether he was contemplating calling it quits following the political fallout over his gazette directive over satellite services that has largely been deemed a backdoor for US company Starlink.
New state petroleum firm aims to empower marginalised groups

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

The chief executive officer of the newly launched state-owned South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC), Godfrey Moagi, says the company will have to develop a “proper transformation strategy”. The SANPC is a merger of iGas, PetroSA and Strategic Fuel Fund, which took place in Johannesburg on Friday.
National Treasury implements measures to deal blow to ghost workers

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

The National Treasury is implementing systems that are aimed at curing public service of the chronic challenge of paying salaries to ghost workers. “Government has begun a process to identify ghost workers and other payroll irregularities. Previous initiatives to uncover ghost workers relied on an inefficient census methodology.
'Lower interest rates may boost economic growth' - Minister Godongwana

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has stated that lower inflation and interest rates were some of the factors that have a potential to drive the country’s economic growth over the next three years. Godongwana’s assertion comes as the Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is scheduled to announce an interest rate decision next week Thursday. In the previous meeting, the MPC left the interest rates unchanged owing to the trade war introduced by US President Donald Trump.
Service delivery hard hit as state spends R1.2bn day servicing debt

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has revealed that the government is spending a whopping R1.2-billion a day to service debt, adding that this was impacting negatively on service delivery. Godongwana said this while delivering the 2025/2026 National Budget Speech on Wednesday. He explained that this meant that 22% of the revenue collected in the 2025/2026 financial year will go towards servicing sovereign debt.
KwaZulu-Natal municipal boss wins 18-month-long battle to get job back

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

A senior official in the ANC-run Msunduzi local municipality in Pietermaritzburg in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is back at her desk after winning back her job 18 months after she was unfairly fired. Nomfundo Hlophe was unfairly fired as the Senior Manager for Legal Services in November 2023, and she took the matter to the SALGA bargaining council in Durban, which has since ruled in her favour by setting aside the expulsion.
PICS | NPA to appeal Timothy Omotoso rape acquittal despite departure from South Africa

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Koka |Mpho Sibanyoni

Despite the departure of Nigerian televangelist pastor Timothy Omotoso from South Africa, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said it will proceed with its appeal against his acquittal by the Eastern Cape High Court in Gqeberha. In a media statement released on Monday, NPA national spokesperson Adv Mthunzi Mhaga said the prosecuting authority has noted the departure of Omotoso from South Africa on Sunday, May 18 2025. “The NPA will proceed with the appeal on the acquittal notwithstanding.
Economists make case for up to 200 basis points interest rates cut

1 month ago | sundayworld.co.za | Mpho Sibanyoni

Economists have cautioned that government’s plan to lower inflation targeting would result in consumer paying high interest rates on credit for longer periods. This follows reports that David Masondo, the deputy finance minister, stated at an investment conference this week that they were working very hard to build the right inflation framework and that they will make a statement soon. The headline consumer price index in the country has a target range of 3% to 6%.