# The GOOD Party says new conditions imposed by the National Treasury on social grants are punitive and harmful to poor citizens. These rules include monthly bank checks, biometric screenings, and extensive data verifications that could block millions from receiving essential grants. This comes despite the High Court’s ruling in Pretoria declaring similar measures unconstitutional. […]
# The DA says policing powers must be given to local and provincial governments to help tackle gang violence in the Western Cape. This follows a bloody weekend in Cape Town, where 26 murders, 58 attempted murders, and 84 gang-related incidents were reported. The DA’s Thomas Walters says local efforts like the Law Enforcement Advancement […]
# The African Congress for Transformation says the Eastern Cape government is failing learners in Tsomo by not paying scholar transport providers since November last year. They demand urgent payment and a full audit of the scholar transport programme. ACT’s Mohau Khumalo says this is not just incompetence but a political failure that’s leaving children […]
# The DA says the Limpopo legislature’s plan to buy two luxury vehicles, a Mercedes-Benz GLC and a GLC Coupé, worth 6.5-million-rand for the speaker’s office, shows a clear disconnect from the reality of struggling residents. The party argues many people in the province face poor service delivery, crumbling roads, and high unemployment, while the […]
# ActionSA calls on president Cyril Ramaphosa to fire Employment and Labour minister Nomakhosazana Meth, for failing to tackle the growing unemployment crisis. The party says the latest quarterly labour force survey shows over 291-thousand jobs were lost in the first quarter of this year, the worst contraction since 2021. ActionSA’s Alan Beesley says keeping […]
# Build One South Africa says the sharp rise in sexual crimes shows the urgent need to make the national sex offenders register public. The party states the police’s latest crime statistics show over 13-thousand sexual offences were reported, with contact cases up 21-percent. They want the register digitised and shared with schools and employers […]
# South African-founded digital asset platform, Luno, has welcomed a landmark ruling by the High Court in Pretoria, calling for an overhaul of South Africa’s outdated crypto regulations. Judge Mandlenkosi Motha found that the country’s 1961 exchange control laws cannot apply to digital currencies and called for urgent legislative reform. Luno’s general manager, Marius Reitz, […]
# Business Leadership South Africa urges the government to urgently address the failing logistics system to avoid harming economic recovery. They warn that continued problems in ports, rail, and transport infrastructure are causing delays and increasing costs for businesses, threatening growth, investment, and job creation. In her weekly newsletter, the organisation’s CEO, Busisiwe Mavuso, calls […]
# The Ntirhisano Community Centre urges unity and solidarity among residents of ward 56 in Cape Town to overcome deep-rooted inequality and service delivery challenges. They condemn a recent xenophobic protest planned against refugees at the Wingfield refugee camp, calling it a harmful distraction from the real issues affecting all communities. The organisation’s Phillip Nyalungu […]
