# The Gauteng Education Department has allocated 2.9-billion-rand of its 68-billion-rand budget for the 2025/2026 financial year towards creating safer schools. The department’s comprehensive approach to creating safe schools includes security deployment to over one-thousand-500 schools, and pro-poor interventions ensuring economic circumstances don’t become barriers to education. MEC Matome Chiloane says schools must be sanctuaries […]
# The East London Magistrate’s Court is today set to hear closing arguments in EFF leader Julius Malema and his former bodyguard Adriaan Snyman’s firearm discharge case. Malema is accused of firing a gun on stage at the EFF’s fifth birthday celebrations in Mdantsane in 2018. Snyman is accused of giving him the alleged weapon. […]
# KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport and Human Settlements, Siboniso Duma, has reiterated his call for motorists to drive with caution on the roads. This comes after five people were killed after a Ford Ranger lost control and collided head-on with a Hyundai on the R66 Nyezane in Gingindlovu on Sunday evening. Three adults and two […]
# The Gauteng Agriculture Department has allocated its Veterinary Services 104-million-rand to bolster support for animal health and biosecurity in the province. This is in the wake of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. At least 32 active cases have been reported in Gauteng. Agriculture MEC Vuyiswa Ramogopa says the province’s foot-and-mouth disease vaccination […]
# National Treasury says it is concerned at the comments made by Navy Chief, Admiral Monde Lobese, on the budget of the South African National Defence Force. He accused Treasury of sabotaging the SANDF by holding back funds, and thereby risking the country’s national security. The Department of Defence has been allocated 57.2-billion-rand for the […]
# Two accused appeared in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Gauteng on charges of fraud linked to Capitec Bank. During November 2023 and January last year, the bank experienced an incomprehensible system glitch during which a client, one of the accused, allegedly unlawfully transferred over six-million-rand into his Capitec business account as well as credit […]
# Residents and indigenous communities in the Musina-Makhado area have rejected a proposed ferrochrome and alloys smelting plant within Limpopo’s contentious Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone. They are concerned that the project will devastate local water sources, kill culturally significant indigenous trees, and generate harmful air pollution. Earthlife Africa’s Thabo Sibeko says, despite environmental protection, officials […]
# The DA is demanding the immediate reversal of the temporary appointment of an untrained 29-year-old Brigadier as the head of Visible Policing for the Moot District in Pretoria. The Brigadier was among several senior Crime Intelligence members arrested a few weeks ago, on allegations of fraud, corruption, and abuse of SAPS’s secret service funds. The […]
# AfriForum has accused the City of Tshwane of violating its own Fire Brigade Service Bylaw. The civil rights organisation says various cemeteries and other municipal sites, such as open fields and veld strips adjacent to roads, pose a serious fire hazard because they are not properly maintained. AfriForum’s Tarien Cooks says the metro is […]
