# The City of Cape Town has tested nearly five-thousand food samples in ten months following a rise in foodborne illnesses. Its microbiological lab analysed ready-to-eat and dairy products, with an overall compliance rate of 84.55-percent. Sampling included manufacturers, retailers, takeaways, old age homes, and informal traders. The metro attributes the rise in cases to […]
# Profmed wants to support young doctors with a year of free medical aid through the finDR platform, South Africa’s first digital locum marketplace. The initiative will target qualified doctors and dentists under 30 who have completed community service in the past two years and are unemployed or newly employed. finDR is a platform that […]
# The Western Cape government is set to launch phase 2 of its Getting You to Work Jobseeker Travel Voucher Programme in Mitchells Plain today. The programme was first piloted in February 2024 and offers unemployed job seekers in Cape Town free travel vouchers for Golden Arrow Bus Services. The provincial government says the project […]
# The ANC in the Western Cape says significant changes can be expected in municipalities across the province in the coming months. This follows the return of Christo Boks, a former mayoral committee member of the DA in the Matzikama Municipality, to the ANC. Boks says there are plans to strengthen the ANC’s presence and […]
# The Gauteng government has condemned violent disruptions by so-called construction mafias at the 550-milion-rand Golden Highway rehabilitation project. Workers have been shot, assaulted, there has been extortion, and local taxi and business forums are reportedly now demanding cuts. Provincial government spokesperson, Lesiba Mpya, told Moneyweb that the province’s position is that there is no place […]
# Mozambique’s Secretary of State for the Sea and Fisheries, Momade Juízo, has warned that illegal fishing, mangrove destruction, and plastic waste are posing serious threats to the country’s biodiversity. He has stressed the need to protect the two-thousand-700-kilometre coastline. Juízo says reforms are currently underway at the sector level, aimed at strengthening the political, […]
# The Presidential Climate Commission is warning that South Africa faces escalating risks without urgent climate action. In its draft recommendations for the country’s climate targets, the commission says rising temperatures will cause declining maize production and water shortages, which will affect food availability. South Africa could face temperature increases of between two and five […]
# The Department of Military Veterans is saddened by the passing of Lieutenant General Gilbert Lebeko Ramano. He served as the former Chief of the South African Army and senior uMkhonto weSizwe commander. Ramano was born in Sophiatown in 1939 and died on Sunday at the age 85. He played a key role in South […]
# Lesotho’s Auditor General Paul Letlela has slammed delays and mismanagement in two major projects. The Royal Palace, meant to be completed in three years, has reportedly remained unfinished 15 years later. Meanwhile, the Lesotho Electricity Company is under scrutiny and has taken urgent legal steps to stop the Public Accounts Committee from questioning its […]
