# The Gauteng Health Department says the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital has received a partial delivery of consumables for dialysis. The DA had claimed it had completely run out of sodium bicarbonate solution, which is essential for daily dialysis treatments, and had been forced to borrow emergency supplies from another hospital. Spokesperson Steve Mabona […]
# The IFP says the massive turnout for the final voter registration weekend shows that South Africans remain determined to exercise their democratic power and have their voices heard. Over the weekend, 1.7 million citizens interacted with the IEC. Of these, 291-thousand-806 registered as first-time voters, while over 1.5 million voters updated or confirmed their […]
# Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Velenkosini Hlabisa, has urged all eligible South Africans to register and verify their voter registration details before the proclamation of the local government election date on Friday. The final voter registration weekend saw 1.7 million citizens either visiting registration stations or using the online voter registration portal. […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Tshwane says the metro’s latest progress report on grants and subsidies for the period ending 30 June exposes serious failures in the spending of development funds. Spokesperson Nick Pascoe says the metro’s failure to complete basic processes on time has resulted in National Treasury reclaiming 155,4-million-rand’s development funds. He […]
# The Forum for South Africa has welcomed government’s commitment to repatriate the remains of South Africans who died in Angola between 1976 and 1992. These are cases linked to apartheid-era political conflict. A preliminary mission to Angola was undertaken in 2025 to conduct grave mapping, during which the technical team identified 89 potential graves […]
# Union federation SAFTU rejects president Cyril Ramaphosa’s defence of Eskom’s unbundling and his claim that introducing competition into electricity generation will lower prices. He has endorsed the first phase report from the Eskom restructuring task team, which reinforces the plan to make South Africa’s transmission network fully independent of Eskom. SAFTU’s secretary-general, Zwelinzima Vavi, […]
# SANParks Table Mountain National Park Fire Management Team is continuing to respond to the ongoing wildfire above Kloof Nek Corner and the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway. The fire has been burning since yesterday evening. SANParks spokesperson, JP Louw, says while conditions were favourable overnight due to lighter winds, potential flare-ups are anticipated for today […]
# The City of Cape Town says Virtual Power Plant options are being investigated, with the metro taking part in a pilot assessment technical partnership. A VPP is a network of decentralised cleaner energy sources, from rooftop solar photovoltaic systems to utility-scale generation and storage plants, working together to act as a traditional power station. […]
# Western Cape premier Alan Winde says one-thousand-800 megawatts could be added to the grid in 2026/2027 if current progress continues. This is part of the province’s Energy Resilience Programme. The premier’s spokesperson, Regan Thaw, says the province remains on track to deliver five-thousand-700 megawatts of new energy capacity by 2035. He says they also welcome Cabinet’s […]
