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President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke out strongly against xenophobia and illegal immigration when he tabled the Presidency’s budget to the National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon.

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Speaker of the National Assembly Thoko Didiza has labelled claims by ATM parliamentary leader Vuyo Zungula about a meeting between herself and lawyers for the president as “false, unwarranted and defamatory”.

The National Prosecuting Authority will re-enrol the fraud case against Johannesburg Development Agency CEO Themba Mathibe after the presiding officer struck it off the roll of the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court after he found that the State’s request for more time was unacceptable.

The Unemployment Insurance Fund’s (UIF) faulty portal will be up and running by November, acting commissioner Malebo Mabitje-Thompson said on Monday.

An investigation by the Special Investigating Unit into the Free State Provincial Government Bursary Scheme uncovered serious maladministration to the tune of more than R8 million, including one official awarding bursaries to relatives and 13 officials being awarded full-time bursaries in contravention of policy.

Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles.

March and March’s leaders say their movement is not xenophobic. They say it is a peaceful organisation. But the facts say otherwise, and March and March is playing with fire.

The R320 million Durban Solid Waste fraud trial involving former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede has been halted by illness and a traditional cleansing ritual, causing delays in the trial that has entered its sixth year.

Prince Albert and Princess Charlene visited Spain on Monday, where they were welcomed by King Felipe VI.

Cambodia initiated a UN-backed dispute resolution process with neighbour Thailand over overlapping maritime claims in the Gulf of Thailand, where undersea energy reserves are valued at around $300 billion.

Immigrants in the Overberg fled to the beaches and the mountains over the weekend as protests against immigrants gathered momentum. In Mossel Bay, the deaths of several Mozambican nationals were reported, and dozens of homes were burned. Dozens of families were displaced.

Party hopper Liam Jacobs says he should have never left the DA in the first place, and that he was misled by lies.

Comedian Barry Hilton is championing preventative care following a health scare two years ago.

Thirteen trailblazers in innovation were honoured at the second Western Cape Economy Innovation Awards in Cape Town on Monday, including work transport provider Bluebird, recruitment technology platform Jobjack, and Checkers Sixty60.

US President Donald Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of alleged government “weaponisation” has been put on hold after the White House faced fierce opposition from Republicans in Congress, three sources familiar with the plan said.

A massive R18.28 billion negative balance in the slate fund has led to a 35.04 cents per litre increase in the slate levy.

The rand lost ground after a report that Iran had stopped exchanging messages with the US.

The South African Weather Service has forecast partly cloudy, cool to warm conditions for most of the country, while isolated showers are expected in parts of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape.

Hundreds of people took ‌to the streets in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki on Monday to protest moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there, residents told Reuters, days after the High Court ordered the government to suspend the plan temporarily.