# RISE Mzansi is calling for a strong supervisory structure for the work that Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MECs do. COGTA minister Velenkosini Hlabisa tabled his department’s nearly 400-billion-rand budget in Parliament on Thursday. RISE Mzansi’s leader, Songezo Zibi, says on top of the national taxes citizens pay, they are also crippled by municipal […]
# The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa Gender Structure is calling on its members and staff in all regions to make donations to victims of last month’s deadly Eastern Cape floods. The floods claimed 103 lives in Mthatha and Butterworth, with six-thousand-869 households affected and four-thousand-724 people still homeless. Numsa’s spokesperson, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, says some of […]
# Mdluli Safari Lodge, on the edge of the Kruger National Park next to Numbi Gate, is a working example of a land claim turned into a successful community tourism initiative. Director of the lodge, Chris Schalkwyk, says the vision was birthed by Chief MZ Mdluli. It took 4 years to get the land back […]
# The Department of Agriculture has officially lifted the ban on Brazilian mechanically deboned meat and chicken, after an eight-week suspension. The ban was triggered by a case of bird flu on a single farm in Rio Grande do Sul, which cut off 95-percent of South Africa’s mechanically deboned meat supply. Merlog Foods’ Georg Southey […]
