# The MK Party says the Cape Flats in Cape Town have become a killing zone while president Cyril Ramaphosa and the government of national unity do nothing. The party claims the state has lost control of the area, with drug cartels and warlords terrorising residents while innocent people, including children, are killed daily. Spokesperson […]
# Gauteng MEC for Education, Matome Chiloane, has called for calm following learner protests at Tiyelelani Secondary School and nearby schools in Soshanguve. The unrest was sparked by allegations of sexual misconduct involving a teacher and a bus driver, and claims that the principal failed to act on these reports. One learner was injured. The […]
# Union federation Saftu says the motor industry faces a jobs bloodbath following Ford’s plan to cut jobs at its plants in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape. The federation has joined metalworkers’ union Numsa in condemning the retrenchments, warning they come on top of cuts at Mercedes-Benz and ArcelorMittal South Africa, which threaten the country’s […]
# Energy regulator Nersa has called on stakeholders to take part in a public hearing on the National Transmission Company South Africa’s application for a market operator licence. The regulator says the licence is a critical step toward creating a competitive electricity market in South Africa. Nersa spokesperson Charles Hlebela says the hearing will take […]
# Employment and Labour minister, Nomakhosazana Meth has expressed deep concern over the ongoing retrenchments, resulting in heavy job losses. ArcelorMittal plans to shut down ots long steel business by the end of this month, which will cut over three-thousand jobs and put another 100-thousand downstream at risk. Ministry spokesperson Thobeka Magcai, says Ford has […]
# Union federation Saftu says ArcelorMittal South Africa’s closure of long steel operations in Newcastle and Vereeniging, and the threatened future of Vanderbijlpark, is a national disaster. The federation blames decades of privatisation, corporate greed, and government failure for the collapse, warning thousands of jobs and entire communities are at risk. Saftu’s Asive Dyani calls […]
# ActionSA says Parliament must act to protect government workers’ pensions from corruption. The party has called on Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts to summon the leadership of the Government Pensions Administration Agency and Finance minister Enoch Godongwana after reports of ghost contracts. ActionSA’s Matthew George says a 500-million-rand biometric contract was awarded to […]
# The DA says Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police must urgently resolve a brewing power struggle between Acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia and national police commissioner Fannie Masemola. The party’s Lisa Schickerling believes the dispute, sparked by the return of 121 political killings dockets to the KwaZulu-Natal task team, risks delaying investigations and eroding public […]
# The DA says Malvern Clinic in east Johannesburg urgently needs repairs and a long-term solution. According to the party, water shortages have forced the clinic to close early, and minor upgrades promised by the Gauteng Health Department are not enough. They are calling for the clinic to be relocated to a larger site. The […]
