# Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has warned that weak planning, poor procurement and lack of accountability are crippling infrastructure delivery, with water losses exposing failing systems. The 2024-2025 consolidated general report on the national and provincial audit outcomes revealed that of 152 infrastructure projects that were audited, 109 experienced delays. The projects have a combined estimated […]
# Gauteng se LUR vir Paaie en Vervoer, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, sê stop-en-deursoek-operasies bly ʼn belangrike afdeling van die provinsie se padveiligheidstrategie. Elf minibusse is van die pad verwyder nadat inspekteurs ernstige meganiese foute opgespoor het tydens ʼn operasie in Tshwane, Johannesburg en Ekurhuleni. Die departement se woordvoerder, Lesiba Mpya, sê 33 minibustaxi-bestuurders het sonder geldige […]
# National Treasury director-general Duncan Pieterse says geopolitical tensions have made it more challenging to deliver on South Africa’s fiscal targets, while ensuring that critical social spending is protected. The fiscal strategy has been anchored by stabilising the debt-to-gross domestic product ratio in the 2025/2026 fiscal year and then reducing it. Pieterse says despite the […]
# Forum for South Africa is bemoedig deur die positiewe reaksie van Suid-Afrikaners gedurende die laaste kieserregistrasie-naweek, toe meer as 1,7-miljoen mense geregistreer is. FOSA se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê dit wys dat baie landsburgers verstaan hoe belangrik dit is om aan die land se grondwetlike demokrasie deel te neem. Hy is egter bekommerd oor […]
# Sokker: Die DA sê die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, het duidelik iets om weg te steek nadat hy gister versuim het om voor die Parlement te verskyn. Hy was veronderstel om vrae te beantwoord oor die 31-miljoen-rand wat sy departement bestee het aan ʼn afvaardiging na die Wêreldbekertoernooi. McKenzie het […]
# US president Donald Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will be reopened very soon, or he will have no other choice but to launch a harsh new attack on Iran. Tehran has denied it is holding direct discussions with Washington; instead, it has emphasised that it is working with Oman on an arrangement to […]
# Rugby: Springbok coach Rassie Erasmus says Saturday’s one-off Test against Argentina will offer the perfect opportunity for several returning players to rediscover their match sharpness. Siya Kolisi, Eben Etzebeth, Lood de Jager and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu will start against Los Pumas after having all missed the Boks’ opening three Tests of the season due to […]
# Die regering sê hoewel vordering gemaak word met die Spazawinkel-ondersteuningsfonds, onderdvind talle klein ondernemings steeds uitdagings wat hul verhoed om te groei. Die fonds van 500-miljoen-rand is daarop gemik om spazawinkels in plaaslike besit te help om hul bedrywighede te formaliseer, aan regulatoriese vereistes te voldoen en mededingendheid te verbeter. Woordvoerder William Baloyi sê […]
# Die EFF in Gauteng het Itani Edwin Mukwevho aangewys as sy burgemeesterskandidaat vir die Merafong-stad plaaslike munisipaliteit in aanloop tot die munisipale verkiesing in November. Hy het in 2013 by die party aangesluit en ʼn belangrike rol gespeel om die organisasie aan die Wes-Rand te vestig. Die EFF sê Mukwevho het in streekstrukture, asook […]
