# The UDM says it is deeply concerned by the avalanche of revelations exposing the collapse of governance, accountability, and ethics within the Department of Social Development, and the South African Social Security Agency. The department has been criticised for spending three-million-rand for a trip to New York for seven officials. UDM’s Zandile Phiri says, on […]
# COPE says it strongly supports the revelations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, on how the South African Police Services Crime Intelligence was abused for political ends. He testified before Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration and political interference within the SAPS. COPE’s acting national chairperson, Pakes Dikgetsi, says Mkhwanazi’s revelations […]
# Eastern Cape premier, Oscar Mabuyane, has condemned the violent protest at Fort Hare University’s Alice campus. Students have been protesting since Monday, demanding the holding of SRC elections within this month, and also calling for the vice chancellor, professor Sakhela Buhlungu, to resign. They accuse him of failing to deal with alleged mismanagement at […]
# A Master’s student at Northern Cape’s Sol Plaatjie University, Tshepiso Sebeela, has been awarded the prestigious Abe Bailey Travel Bursary. The bursary recognises university students who demonstrate exceptional academic performance, leadership and a deep sense of social responsibility. Each year, recipients embark on a three-week educational tour of England and Scotland, an opportunity to […]
# A drug mule and a courier were arrested at the Cape Town International Airport on Wednesday. Police spokesperson, Zinzi Hani, says the Hawks Narcotics Enforcement Bureau team and other law enforcement agencies acted on intelligence and intercepted a man aged 35 as he arrived from Doha, Qatar. She says the man was carrying 5.1-kilograms of […]
# The City of Tshwane council speaker, Mncedi Ndzwanana, has confirmed he has received the investigative report on deputy mayor and mayoral committee member of Finance, Eugene Modise. The report was compiled by the metro’s Group Audit and Risk Department. Modise is alleged to have failed to disclose and divest his interest in a company […]
# ActionSA says it will formally write to both the Johannesburg Road Agency and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy, to seek an amicable solution to address the sinkholes in some parts of Roodepoort, specifically in Witpoortjie Estate. The party’s Marcel Coutriers says while the JRA and the department engage in a tug-of-war over responsibility to fix […]
# The GOOD Party says it has applied to join the South African Property Owners Association’s litigation, to have elements of the City of Cape Town’s new tariff regime declared unconstitutional. The association is challenging the metro’s cleaning tariff, the amended basic water charge, and the basic sanitation charge. GOOD’s secretary-general, Brett Herron, says according to […]
# Two students from the North-West University were first runner-up at the South African Institute for Industrial Engineering Student Competition. The team known as AndyX, consisting of final-year industrial engineering students Andile Madlala and Xayaan Maasdorp, designed a mobile healthcare tricycle with an enclosed cabin to improve access to medical care in rural South Africa. The […]
