# The Public Servants Association is calling on government to urgently address the lack of water and sanitation in communities as it undermines dignity and service delivery. Africa Day is celebrated todat under the African Union’s theme, Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063. The PSA’s spokesperson Claude […]
# Eskom says as winter season period approach, the power system continues to demonstrate improved resilience, with no power supply interruptions in the current financial year to date. The power entity spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says Eskom returns over three-thousand-megawatts of generation capacity to the national grid today to strengthen stable electricity supply ahead of weekly peak […]
# The Gauteng Department of Education acknowledged the delays in the release of school subsidies which were expected to be deposited into the respective school accounts by 15 May. Spokesperson Onwabile Lubhelwana says the department will ensure that the disbursement of the funds will start next month. He says the funds cover essential operational expenses […]
# The minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, says government continues to strengthen its operations to combat organised poaching syndicates. South African authorities seized eight-thousand-686 units of shucked abalone with an estimated street value of approximately 1.6-million-rand in two separate incidents in Partridge Point in Simon’s Town and Grabouw. Three suspects were also arrested. Aucamp […]
# The DA in the Western Cape maintains that safety requires SAPS to implement targeted structural interventions by expanding investigative powers to provinces and municipalities. The latest police crime statistics for the fourth quarter show that murders in the province decreased by 8-percent, from one-thousand-68 cases between January and March last year to 983 cases in […]
# South Africa is hosting the 17th Africa Regional Round of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition in Pretoria today and tomorrow. The competition will be held under the theme, Empowering Africa’s future in Space Governance for Sustainable Space Activities. The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s regional coordinator for Africa for the competition, Nomfuneko Majaja, […]
# The EFF has condemned the continued refusal by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management to execute its constitutional responsibility to being accountable for the appointment and remuneration of the Secretary to Parliament, Xolile George. During a recent meeting of the Committee, the party formally requested that the matter be placed on the agenda for […]
# The DA is considering its approach to amend the Competition Act to address anti-competitive exclusivity agreements in retail. The party says a dispute between Woolworths and Grey’s Marine, a supplier of fish, has forced the small business to close down after supplying Woolworths for over 30 years. The DA’s Toby Chance says this issue has also […]
# The City of Cape Town has called on the Police Ministry to address its ongoing failure of the criminal justice system, especially when it comes to securing convictions for illegal and prohibited firearms confiscated by City Enforcement. The city tracked one-thousand-763 cases linked to illegal firearms and ammunition between January 2023 and March 2026. Mayoral committee […]
