# The City of Cape Town’s Urban Waste Management Directorate has praised the Cape Peninsula University of Technology for its bold step in leading and embracing a zero-waste journey in the higher education sector. Last year, CPUT introduced a three-bin separation system across all its campuses, becoming Cape Town’s first zero-waste university. Mayoral committee member […]
# SECTION27 and the Cancer Alliance have welcomed the Gauteng High Court’s urgent ruling to protect cancer patients’ right to healthcare. The court has ruled that the Gauteng Department of Health has to abide by provisions of a previous order on radiation oncology services for cancer patients, pending the outcome of its appeal. Cancer Alliance’s […]
# The BRICS Business Council’s recent AGM in Brazil highlighted progress toward economic transformation, with its annual report outlining 47 private sector-led initiatives and strategic recommendations across key sectors. These include a proposal for an integrated regulatory framework for food security and a coordinated renewable energy strategy. The AGM also reviewed a landmark white paper, […]
# The Ngwathe Local Municipality has lost its bid to appeal, leaving the Free State High Court’s ruling in AfriForum’s favour, which dissolves the council and orders provincial intervention. Judge JP Daffue confirmed that the municipality’s mismanagement, financial crisis, and inability to deliver basic services justify provincial oversight. AfriForum’s Corne Cronje says the party welcomed […]
# South Africa’s red meat industry is grappling with the ongoing foot and mouth disease outbreak, compounded by a shortage of vaccines. Red Meat Industry Services CEO, Dewald Olivier, says the current outbreak remains localised in certain areas, and containment zones together with movement restrictions are in place to limit further spread. He says the concern […]
# The DA says the Gauteng Provincial Government’s Rapid Land Release Programme has dramatically failed to meet its goals. The programme was launched in 2018 to empower the poor through land ownership and development opportunities. The DA’s Mervyn Cirota says of the two-thousand-200 stands allocated under the programme to residents in Palm Ridge Extension 14, […]
# RISE Mzansi has cautioned Johannesburg mayor, Dada Morero, against treating service delivery as a public relations exercise. This comes after sustained pressure led to the metro dealing with the long-standing Sandton “big hole” on the corner of Pretoria and Catherine Avenues. RISE Mzansi’s Mabine Seabe says the Bomb Squad and Presidential Johannesburg Working Group […]
# The Kleinfontein informal settlement has accused the City of Tshwane of trying to remove the Afrikaner community. Kleinfontein is one of about 17 illegal developments in the metro and consists of about 650 housing units. The City of Tshwane has lodged an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria, seeking to stop any […]
# Compagniesdrift near Stellenbosch’s makataan chunks have been crowned the very first South African Preserve Product of the Year in the newly launched South African Preserve Championships. Seventy products from 29 manufacturers were recognised in their respective classes, with eleven category winners standing out. Chief judge Susina Jooste says Compagniesdrift’s makataan chunks impressed with its […]
