# The City of Tshwane says it has successfully interdicted the North West Housing Corporation from auctioning the city’s properties in Mabopane, north of the city. The city’s spokesperson, Selby Bokaba says the city approached the Pretoria High Court following the NWHC’s advertisement of a bulk sale of more than 400 mixed use properties which […]
# Agriculture organisation TLU SA says property rights in South Africa have reached a critical turning point. TLU SA’s Bennie Van Zyl says the ideological unmasking of president Cyril Ramaphosa’s approach to land redistribution, as recently revealed in Harare, has irreversibly damaged the government’s credibility in this matter. Van Zyl says at the organisation congress […]
# The EFF has written to Parliament’s Joint Committee Meeting of the Standing Portfolio Committee chairpersons on Finance, Police, and on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to address the growing crisis of pension fund non-compliance and the exploitation of workers. This is in particular in relation to private security personnel and municipal employees where employuers do […]
The University of the Western Cape says it is playing a pivotal role in the continent’s response to a newly confirmed Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. UWC’s spokesperson, Gasant Abarder says the outbreak confirmed in Kasai province has already claimed 15 lives, with 28 suspected cases reported across Bulape and Mweka health […]
# Western Cape Mobility MEC, Isaac Sileku, and CATA and CODETA taxi associations operating on the Somerset West routes agreed on the urgent need to ensure peace and stability. He says this followed another fatal shooting in Lwandle on Thursday linked to disputes between the two taxi associations. Sileku says violence and lawlessness have no place in the Western […]
# The Table Mountain National Park has noted that many visitors will want to experience the upcoming full moon and lunar eclipse from this evening until Monday night at different vantage points from the mountain. The South African National Parks spokesperson, Charles Phahlane says a lunar eclipse is different from a solar eclipse, which one should […]
# The DA says it has formally submitted a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to the Department of Tourism. The party says this to obtain the full record of Tourism minister Patricia de Lille’s decision to dissolve the SA Tourism Board. The DA’s Haseena Ismail says the DA has since received official acknowledgement […]
# Eskom says the power system continues to be stable, resilient and reliable, enabling it to deliver 113 consecutive days without load-shedding as of today. Eskom spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says there have been consistently low levels of unplanned outages, underscoring the sustained improvements in the performance of the generation fleet. She says unplanned losses due to breakdowns […]
# The Energy Regulator has approved that ArcelorMittal South Africa’s applications to Eskom for six-year negotiated pricing agreements. The regulator’s spokesperson, Charles Hlebela says this is for its Newcastle and Vanderbijlpark steel manufacturing plants. He says in September and October 2024, AMSA submitted its applications to Eskom to consider negotiating reduced tariffs in terms of the provisions of the […]
