# President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared 4 November 2026, the day of the local government elections, a public holiday. A total of 546 political parties will contest the elections, while more than 140-thousand candidates have been nominated to contest ten-thousand-526 council seats across the country. Ramaphosa has called on all registered voters to use the […]
# The South African Local Government Association, through its National Women’s Commission, has condemned the continued and brutal murder of women in Kempton Park and across the country. This follows the discovery of six women’s bodies in the Kempton Park area over a two-month period. SALGA’s Nomvuyo Mposelwa is calling for urgent, decisive and coordinated […]
# The National Shelter Movement says there is an urgent need to strengthen the already overstretched network of shelters for women and safe spaces for gender-based violence and femicide survivors. The Department of Social Development is hosting the sixth National Shelter indaba in Benoni, Gauteng, this week to strengthen responses to the crisis. NSMSA’s Greer […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police has welcomed the successes by SAPS and the specialised law-enforcement units against the drug trade in the past week. In the Western Cape, police intercepted 57-thousand mandrax tablets and five kilograms of cocaine worth approximately 5.85-million-rand. An alleged drug laboratory valued at 100-million-rand was uncovered in Erasmia, Tshwane. Committee […]
# KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, is warning residents to brace for severe thunderstorms and heavy rain in parts of the province today. The South African Weather Service has issued a Level Two warning for severe thunderstorms, heavy downpours and strong winds. The department’s spokesperson, Siboniso Mngadi, says MEC Buthelezi […]
# Union federation SAFTU says the weekend’s deadly accidents are a reminder of the continuing national road death crisis. A crash on the N1 between Prince Albert Road and Leeu-Gamka in the Western Cape claimed 21 lives, while in Mpumalanga, eight people were killed on the N17 toll road near Ermelo. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says […]
# The Forum for South Africa has expressed concern at the discovery of the bodies of five women in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, saying the lives of women cannot become statistics. Police have deployed a multidisciplinary team to investigate possible links between the cases. The forum’s leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says law enforcement agencies need to strengthen […]
# The DA in Tshwane is opposed to turning existing community amenities used for sport and recreation into a resettlement camp. A ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal paves the way for the eviction of occupants of the Melgisedek building. The Tshwane metro plans to relocate the informal residents to a temporary tent camp […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Tshwane says it will assist the communities of Gezina and Capital Park in an effort to keep these neighbourhoods from turning into crime-infested areas. This comes as the metro will soon relocate the illegal occupants of the controversial Melgisedek Centre to a temporary tent town in Capital Park, after […]
