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24 July 2025 On Wednesday, 23 July 2025, the National Assembly, following the conclusion of its Budget Vote Debates on departmental budgets, considered and voted on the 2025/26 Appropriation Bill. This marked a critical stage in the national budget process, as the House decided on the allocation of funds to various government departments and programmes. It is heartening to note that most political parties in the National Assembly placed the needs of the people of South Africa first, rather than play palace politics. The 2025/26 Appropriation Bill authorises government spending and allocates funds to departments and entities, divided into budget votes, each corresponding to a specific government department or entity for things like operations and service delivery. It follows the Division of Revenue Bill, passed on 26 June, which determines how funds are shared between national, provincial, and local government. The Appropriations Bill is ultimately about the national interest and keeping the country functioning- responsibly, transparently and accountably. As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, this Bill, using the Charter as a blueprint seeks to address the rising cost of living; social wage; access to adequate housing, health, education and job creation. It augments the budget for social […]

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The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and EnvironsThe Sterkfontein Valley landscape is in both western Gauteng and the North West Province and is also called the Cradle of Humankind because it includes remains of hominids from about 2 to 3.3 million years ago. There is also proof of early stone-age, middle stone-age, later stone-age, early and late iron-age and modern people. Thousands of fossils that show human evolution over the past 3.5 million years have been found since 1936. These fossils are important because they show how these human ancestors lived, what they ate and what animals and plants existed with them.Unesco declared it a World Heritage Site in 1999. It includes archaeological sites at Sterkfontein, Kromdraai, Swartkrans cave, Coopers B, Wonder Cave, Drimolen, Gladysvale, Gondolin, Plover's Lake, Haasgat, Bolt's Farm and Minnaar's caves. The Sterkfontein caves are the best known because Professor Raymond Dart found the skull of an adult Australopithecus africanus there in 1947. There are about 25 more sites in the area that can be excavated.The Sterkfontein CavesThe caves are about 10km from Krugersdorp on the Isaac Edwin Stegmann Reserve and part of it is open to the public. The Stegmann family donated the caves to the University of the Witwatersrand.The first sophisticated people, to explore the caves were lime prospectors in the 1890's. They noticed bone fossils but they didn't report it and in 1936 some students under Professors Raymond Dart and Robert Bloom rediscovered the fossils. They were very excited and when their teachers also visited the caves the real study of the fossils began. They found many hominids, but World War II stopped the work until 1946. Professors Broom and Dart and John Robinson returned to Sterkfontein and in 1947 they found Mrs Ples.The longest archaeological dig in the area started in 1966 and is still continuing. Pr

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The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) ensures that the nine provinces and local government have a direct voice in Parliament when laws are made. The National Council of Provinces represents the provinces to ensure that provincial interests are taken into account in the national sphere of government. It does this mainly by: participating in the national legislative process and providing a national forum for public consideration of issues affecting the provinces. More...

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Access your guide to South Africa's State of the Nation Address. Here you can reflect on the achievements and challenges of the past year and to hear about your government’s plan of action to build a better South Africa for all.

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Symposium on Political Funding in South Africa 2025

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