# Correctional Services National Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale says more than 55-thousand inmates are on parole. Addressing the National Summit on the Review of the Parole System in Pretoria, Thobakgale says the system faces pressure due to the shortage of officers to monitor them effectively. Thobakgale told SABC News that capacity challenges threaten compliance and public […]
# Parliament’s Select Committee on Economic Development and Trade chairperson, Sonja Boshoff has called for a National Crisis Summit to tackle South Africa’s growing wave of job losses. Boshoff says the summit should unite government, business, and labour to find urgent solutions, including relief on electricity and freight costs, stronger localisation, and trade remedies. She […]
# The Mpumalanga High Court will today hear arguments regarding the late former deputy president David Mabuza’s 44-million-rand pension fund. This comes after Mabuza’s daughter Tamara Silinda approached the court to block the distribution of her late father’s pension fund by Alexander Forbes. Silinda claims her mother was Mabuza customary wife. She is seeking to […]
# The Competition Tribunal has heard new evidence in the excessive and predatory pricing case against SA Airlink. Economic expert Jason Aproskie testified that the airline overstated asset values by using the gross replacement value method, which inflates costs competitors would face when entering the market. This allegedly enabled Airlink to charge higher ticket prices […]
# The DA in the Western Cape says more than one-thousand-896 hectares of provincial and national land have been identified for housing projects. DA spokesperson on Infrastructure, Dirk Wessels, says this includes 303 hectares of provincial land and one-thousand-593 hectares owned by the national government. He urges national authorities to speed up the land release […]
# Wild Africa in Namibia has called for protection of rhinos in Africa as illegal horn trade remains the biggest threat. The organisation’s representative Odile Gertze, says poaching in Africa has fallen to its lowest level in over a decade, though one rhino was still killed every 15-hours last year, according to the International Rhino […]
# The FNB House Price Index rose to 4.5-percent year-on-year in August, its fastest growth in more than three years and the fourth consecutive month of real house price increases. FNB Property Economist, Siphamandla Mkhwanazi says the Western Cape continues to lead, however Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal show renewed momentum. He emphasised that while demand and prices […]
# The South African Social Security Agency has warned that no compensation is required for its services. Spokesperson Andile Tshona says anyone demanding payment to assist with social grant applications is acting fraudulently and should be reported to law enforcement immediately. He urges beneficiaries and the public to stay vigilant, avoid entertaining impostors on the […]
# The Science, Technology and Innovation Department is hosting the third G20 Research and Innovation Working Group and Ministerial meeting in Pretoria. The sessions lead up to the G20 Ministerial Meeting tomorrow, where the Tshwane Declaration will be adopted. The Department’s Multilateral and Africa Engagements chief director, Mmampei Chaba, says the delegates will review progress, […]
