# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, as acting Police minister with immediate effect. He will serve in this new role until professor Firoz Cachalia assumes the post at the start of August. The Presidency says Mantashe will retain his responsibilities as minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police chairperson, Ian Cameron, has expressed concern about what process was followed in deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya, being placed on a leave of absence. KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has accused Sibiya of obstructing justice, stalling investigations into political assassinations and organised crime, and shielding politically […]
# The United Nations Human Rights Office, OHCHR, says 875 desperate and hungry Gazans have been killed in recent weeks trying to fetch food. A total of 674 deaths have been linked to private aid hubs run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, while 201 victims were killed on the routes or near aid convoys. […]
# The Constitutional Court has granted direct access to hear the City of Cape Town’s bid to invalidate the Public Procurement Act. The act aims to provide a broad preferential procurement framework for procurement by organs of state, and includes sections aimed at empowerment and transformation, such as pre-qualifying criteria. Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis […]
# RISE Mzansi has welcomed the dissolution of the Road Accident Fund board of directors in the wake of governance and operational challenges. Transport minister Barbara Creecy stated that the board’s failure to discharge its fiduciary duties had resulted in the loss of confidence in its ability to run the entity effectively. RISE Mzansi’s Makashule […]
# The Presidency has condemned what it says is the DA’s harassment of Special Envoy to North America, Mcebisi Jonas. The party claims the US denied Jonas a diplomatic visa in May this year and rejected his credentials. The Presidency states that the fact is that special envoys do not present diplomatic credentials to host […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare het die minister vir Vroue, Jeug en Persone met Gestremdhede, Sindisiwe Chikunga, geloof vir haar departement se onlangse inisiatief om meer geleenthede vir Suid-Afrikaanse vroue te skep. Dit bevoordeel veral vrouens in plattelandse gebiede wat grootliks van belangrike ontwikkelingsplatforms uitgesluit is. Die vakbondwoordvoerder, Claude Naiker, sê die minister se plan […]
# Entrepreneurship to the Point het in die lig van die komende 30-persent Amerikaanse invoerheffing, dringende beskerming vir klein, medium en mikro-ondernemings gevra. President Cyril Ramaphosa voer aan die wedersydse tarief is nie ‘n akkurate voorstelling van beskikbare handelsdata nie. To the Point-stigter, Shawn Theunissen, sê die heffings kan lei tot die ontsporing van ondernemings […]
# Mpumalanga se LUR vir Onderwys, Cathy Dlamini, is afgedank ná ‘n provinsiale uitvoerende herskommeling te midde van korrupsiebewerings. Die EFF het ‘n korrupsiesaak teen haar aanhangig gemaak waarin beweer word sy het diensverskaffers 600-duisend-rand se omkoopgeld gevra vir tenders vir skoolvoeding en die onderhoud van geboue. Dlamini ontken dit en sê die bewerings het […]
