The deafening silence by major role players in the mainstream media around the Economic Freedom Fighters’ (EFF) threats of banning journalists working for the Africa News Network (ANN7) and The New Age newspaper was and is still a worrying development.
When the now famous Setsokotsane campaign ends in Rustenburg next Friday (February 12) to round off its first year of operation in the North West province, the much talked-about service delivery outreach programme would have come a full circle from the time it was launched by Premier Supra Mahumapelo almost a year ago in Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati Municipal District.
The North West provincial education department was this week facing prospects of a serious crisis in its operations and will have to move with speed to if it hopes to arrest the situation on time.
It is true that the decision by the Constitutional Court which nullified the 2013 by-elections in several wards and ordered the re-run of the by-elections in Tlokwe has become a worrisome development for the African National Congress and its Allies.
The academic year kicked-off in earnest yesterday (Wednesday) with millions of learners either returning to school to further their studies or some starting their academic year for the first time.