Thabo Mothibi

The gemstone and jewellery industries have forever been yearning for something anew. Imagine having a personal connection with your bling creator? Yes indeed; you being adorned in jewellery that is custom-made. Imagine having to purchase a diamond that you would have had the liberty of exchanging ideas on its brilliant cutting with a diamantaire?…

Northern Cape’s MEC for Education Martha Bartlett has tabled her department’s budget vote with a firm focus on reinforcing quality teaching and effective learning. From the department’s budgetary allocation of over six billion rand (R6, 4 billion), various school based programmes have been adopted aimed at reinforcing a culture of learning and…

Indigent households in Kimberley are being ripped off by third party vendors such as tuckshops in the selling of electricity. Despite the Sol Plaatje Municipality having granted relief through the provision of free 50kWh per month to the individual indigent household; the tuckshops selling electricity within their living spaces are setting them…

Northern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs, Bentley Vass, has welcomed interventions aimed at assisting financially struggling municipalities in the province. This follows Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize having announced in his budget vote speech that 87…

Retired North Gauteng High Court Judge President Bernard Ngoepe who is also a former Amnesty Committee member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), says apartheid atrocities stemming from the TRC’s testimonies should be pursued on a case by case basis. Speaking to NCNN.LIVE yesterday, having delivered the Robert Sobukwe Memorial…

Six of the Northern Cape’s community radio stations are meeting in Upington to select a new executive for the provincial chapter of the National Community Radio Forum (NCRF). The conference gets underway today and will continue until this Saturday, 12 May. Senior managers and board members from the six stations will be the key delegates at the…