# The R521 in Limpopo near the Vivo junction remains closed after a truck jack-knifed. The Department of Transport and Community Safety spokesperson Mashudu Mabata says traffic officers are on scene directing vehicles to use the road edge to and from Alldays and Louis Trichardt. She says motorists must be patient, exercise caution and follow […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa met with Eskom board chairperson Mteto Nyati to reaffirm South Africa’s energy reform path as imperative to achieve an affordable, reliable, and sustainable electricity supply. Nyati had warned government’s ownership plans for the power utility would undermine Eskom’s finances and unsettle investors. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says the establishment of a […]
# The United Progressive People Alliance is concerned that Hammanskraal residents endured almost two weeks without reliable water. The Alliance’s mayoral candidate for the City of Tshwane, Abel Tau, says the crisis forced families, schools and businesses to live without basic hygiene. He says water returned only as the ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa visited, raising […]
# Johannesburg Water says the city is using about 200 megalitres more water per day than its supply target, putting pressure on the system. Speaking to ENCA, Manager Gugulethu Quma says daily demand is averaging one-thousand-700 to one-thousand-750 megalitres against a target of one-thousand-500 to one-thousand-550 megalitres. He says the City is conserving water in […]
# Freight groups South African Freight and Logistics Association and Road Freight Association calls for an urgent recovery plan to restore cargo flow at Durban Gateway Terminal after sustained disruption. RFA CEO Gavin Kelly says July vessels averaged 80-hours at anchorage, throughput fell 26-percent after the August NAVIS N4 cutover, and port call times more […]
# Build One South Africa will contest 24 municipalities across five provinces in the 4 November local government elections, fielding 794 candidates in its first local election. Spokesperson Graham Charter says the municipalities include Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, Cape Town and Mangaung, representing about 25-million people. He says 37-percent of candidates are under 35, and 45-percent […]
# Motorists should expect traffic disruptions in Fourways on Friday, 28 August, due to a Johannesburg Metro Police Department’s Women’s Month Awareness Walk. Spokesperson Xolani Fihla says the walk is planned from 10:00 to 12:00 with about 300 participants. The route starts at Uranium Park on Uranium Street, left onto Winnie Mandela Drive, past Pieter […]
# The Institute of Race Relations will ask the Human Rights Commission to declare South Africa’s housing and title deeds backlogs human rights violations. Spokesperson Makone Maja says it follows revelations the title deeds backlog exceeded one-million, with over 30-thousand dating back to apartheid. The number grew from 423-thousand in 2014 to 774-thousand by 2024. […]
# A police captain investigating the murder of former Knysna mayor Aubrey Tsengwa was killed in a shootout this morning. The Tactical Response Team officer was deployed to the Western Cape Town to probe Tsengwa’s killing and the murders of two other ANC politicians, Mandla Matiwane and Mandla Tyololo, last week. The unnamed officer died […]
