# About 40 activists, including from The Green Connection, Extinction Rebellion, and Project90by2030, as well as small-scale fishers, will stage a protest in Cape Town on Thursday, under the banner “Tug of War for Africa.” This as the G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Ministerial Meeting will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre tomorrow. […]
# Build One South Africa says the Department of Basic Education needs to account to Parliament for the 150-million-rand in underspending across several provincial departments in the 2024/2025 financial year. The majority of the money, which was intended for feeding schemes, education infrastructure and learning tools, was in the form of conditional grants and will […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says members of medical schemes cannot be penalised for not being a burden for the state and paying for their own medical care. The government has indicated that it wants to redirect tax credits for private medical scheme contributions to the National Health Insurance Fund. This would channel approximately 34-billion-rand […]
# The DA in the Western Cape says the province’s cruise tourism sector recorded more than a one-billion-rand contribution to the provincial economy in 2024/25, a 36-percent increase from the previous year. The party’s Noko Masipa says with 127-thousand passengers across 83 ship calls, the sector supports over two-thousand jobs. Growth extends to coastal towns […]
# The DA in the Eastern Cape says it has consistently warned that the provincial scholar transport programme is on the brink of systemic failure. Thousands of pupils who rely on scholar transport missed the first day of the final term on Monday, after taxi operators withdrew the service because the provincial government still owed […]
# The Eastern Cape Sustainability Forum says the province is continuing to play a vital role in supporting rural livelihoods, biodiversity conservation, and land restoration. This is in the face of South Africa’s strained economy. The forum’s convener, Cobus Meiring, says the regional citrus industry anticipates a record-breaking harvest this year, providing a welcome boost to the provincial economy. He says […]
# The DA in the Western Cape has hailed the achievements detailed in the provincial Department of Local Government’s annual report for the 2024/2025 financial year. The department has achieved 97-percent of its planned targets for the year, which is underscored by its 12th consecutive clean audit. The DA’s Dave Bryant says despite severe weather […]
# The case against four men arrested after being found with a kidnapping victim and an AK-47 rifle in their vehicle has been postponed to next Monday. They appeared in the Pretoria North Magistrate’s Court yesterday. National Prosecuting Authority’s spokesperson, Lumka Mahanjana, says the four face several charges, including kidnapping, fraud, robbery with aggravating circumstances, […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Gauteng is calling on the Ekurhuleni Municipality to prioritise water leak repairs, to prevent large-scale water wastage, such as in Impala Park, Boksburg. The leak in Locheed Street was reported last Thursday, but was only repaired by Saturday. The FF Plus’ Denise Janse van Rensburg says, despite constant pressure […]
