HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY

Fri 05 December 2025:

Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:

◼️ SA breaks ranks with BRICS to vote for UN resolution: The reason is largely that South Africa has consistently championed the return of the Ukrainian children, starting with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to do so when he met him at the head of the African Peace Mission to Ukraine and Russia in June 2023. In April this year, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited South Africa, he gave Ramaphosa a list of 400 abducted children whose return he asked South Africa to help secure.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-12-04-sa-breaks-ranks-with-brics-to-vote-for-uor-un-resolution-demanding-russia-return/

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◼️ Zuma loses R28.9m legal bill appeal: Zuma had sought leave to appeal after the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled on 22 October that he was responsible for paying his own private legal costs. He was ordered to pay R28 960 774.34 plus interest to the State Attorney within 60 days. Should he fail to settle the amount, his presidential pension benefits could be attached.
https://www.citizen.co.za/news/zuma-legal-fees-appeal-arms-deal-corruption-trc-recusal/

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◼️ 190 000 driving licences cancelled: The Special Investigating Unit recovered R14.7 million from six provinces in a probe into eNaTIS transport fraud. Mpumalanga received the most, R9.5 million, including R7 million from Optimum Coal Mine. The investigation led to the cancellation of 190,503 fraudulent licences and 78 criminal referrals to the National Prosecuting Authority.
https://www.news24.com/business/economy/crackdown-on-enatis-corruption-recovers-r15m-190-000-driving-licences-cancelled-20251204-0867

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◼️ Teachers becoming targets in SA: His concerns come after a 54-year-old teacher in Stellenbosch was shot and killed outside Khayamandi Primary School, and a double murder at Ingleweni Primary in Tembisa last week. Speaking about the growing threat, Manuel stressed that “our teachers are under siege, and the level of violence is what is most worrying.”
https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/845237/teachers-becoming-targets-in-south-africa/

https://businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle/845237/teachers-becoming-targets-in-south-africa/

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◼️ African penguins starved en masse off SA: Two of the most important breeding colonies near Cape Town had collapsed between 2004 and 2011, with some 62,000 birds estimated to have died, the study by the UK’s University of Exeter and the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment said.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251205-study-says-african-penguins-starved-en-masse-off-south-africa

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