# KwaZulu-Natal premier, Thamsanqa Ntuli, has welcomed the arrest of a suspect believed to be behind a mass murder case in Umlazi. Eight people, aged between 22 and 40, were killed at Zama Informal Settlement in May. It is understood that unknown suspects entered a home and shot them before fleeing the scene. Ntuli says […]
# Cosatu has welcomed the adjustments announced by the Department of Home Affairs for banks, credit bureaus and other financial institutions accessing the National Population Register. For more than a decade, the private sector’s fee to access the NPR has not been adjusted from 15-cents per request. Financial institutions will now be charged ten-rand per […]
# The City of Cape Town says that so far in this financial year, there has been an increase in the number of stolen vehicles recovered by the Metro Police Department. Three suspects were arrested in the Philippi area on Monday after being found in possession of a stolen vehicle. Mayoral committee member for Safety […]
# The GOOD Party is calling for greater transparency in municipal oversight and warns against misinterpreting audit outcomes. The party took part in a high-level dialogue with other political parties, as part of the ongoing review of the 1998 White Paper on Local Government. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says dysfunction persists even in municipalities with […]
# Minister of Home Affairs, Leon Schreiber, says the rollout of an upgraded National Population Register verification service to all companies and government users will begin on July 1st. Home Affairs has increased the fees for a single real-time verification check to ten-rand per transaction. For non-live batch verifications, where a user wishes to verify […]
# Six armed suspects were killed in a shootout with police on the R61 road between Mthatha and Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape yesterday evening. Police spokesperson, Nobuntu Gantana, says the intelligence-driven operation targeted individuals suspected of involvement in extortion activities within the area. She says they stopped a vehicle the suspects were travelling in, […]
# The DA says it strongly rejected the South African Post Office’s request to present its 3.8-billion-rand business rescue plan behind closed doors. The party finds it outrageous that the Post Office, already propped up by taxpayers, is asking for secrecy while its business rescue practitioners rake in 6-million-rand per month. The DA’s Nico Pienaar […]
# The Deputy minister of Water and Sanitation, Sello Seitlholo says 78-percent of the waste water treatment works plants in Limpopo are in a critical state and dysfunctional. Seitlholo has commended the Masodi Wastewater Treatment plant in Mokopane which treats effluent to the required standard. The deputy minister says the municipalities in the province are therefore […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has returned to South Africa, after concluding a working visit to Russia. He engaged in a number of activities aimed at strengthening the bilateral trade and economic relations between South Africa and Russia. Mashatile says the importance of the Global South in shaping international economic governance is undeniable. He says […]
