# The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has temporarily suspended three public transport licensing requirements for six months following concerns from taxi, scholar transport and e-hailing operators. The suspended requirements include police clearance certificates, labour law compliance, and professional driving permits for licence owners who do not drive public transport vehicles themselves. The department’s […]
# Union federation Cosatu says urgent, long-term interventions are needed to save poultry producer Daybreak Foods and protect workers’ jobs, despite progress in stabilising the company. The federation’s Matthew Parks says current and retrenched workers are owed 170-million-rand in unpaid wages and severance payments. Parks calls for the money to be paid in full, a […]
# DRDGold says its gold production increased by ten-percent to more than 42-thousand ounces in the three months from July to September, compared with the same period last year. The gold producer’s operating profit rose by 42-percent to 1.6 billion-rand, while revenue increased by 31-percent to about three-billion-rand. The company generated 726.million-rand in free cash […]
# Rise Mzansi says the National Treasury needs to review the fuel levy system and provide relief to consumers and businesses facing rising costs. According to the party, global economic uncertainty and higher oil prices are worsening South Africa’s cost-of-living crisis. Rise Mzansi’s Mabine Seabe wants Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to use the medium-term budget […]
# The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape has closed Orient Beach and Eastern Beach in KuGompo City until further notice following a fatal shark attack at Orient Beach this morning. The victim is reported to be an elderly woman swimming with a group of open-water swimmers. The municipality has urged beachgoers to […]
# The Campaign for Free Expression, Media24, amaBhungane and Daily Maverick have asked the High Court in Pretoria to open the trial of two former State Security Agency officials to the public. Thulani Dlomo, known as former president Jacob Zuma’s spy, and Patrick Mshotholo are on trial over the alleged misuse of 12-million-rand in intelligence […]
# A forensic expert told the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court a simulation involving an aggressive push appeared consistent with the physical evidence surrounding Anele Tembe’s fatal fall. Tembe, the fiancée of the late rapper Kiernan “AKA” Forbes, died after falling from the tenth floor of a Pepperclub Hotel in April 2021. Testifying at the inquest, […]
# The Western Cape government calls on the national government to take urgent action to address ongoing medicine shortages nationwide. The shortages are linked to manufacturing problems, supplier constraints and delays in imports and medicine testing. Health and Wellness MEC Mireille Wenger says better coordination between national and provincial health departments is needed to prevent […]
# The Motor Industry Staff Association calls for greater awareness of teen depression, cyberbullying and suicide following the deaths of two teenagers. A matric learner at St Anne’s Diocesan College in KwaZulu-Natal, Reneiloe Monkhi, died on 15 October, while Ashleigh Saville from Mitchells Plain died on 7 October. Saville’s father says she faced months of […]
