# The Freedom Front Plus has expressed concern over the ongoing uncertainty regarding pensioner discounts on municipal accounts in the City of Ekurhuleni. Several elderly residents have received their municipal bills, payable by 11 August, without the expected discount for which they had already applied. The FF Plus’ Denise Janse van Rensburg says, despite formal […]
# Johannesburg mayor, Dada Morero, will today lead a high-impact service delivery programme in Region D, Soweto. The operation aims to address key service delivery issues such as fixing potholes, clearing sewer blockages, resolving billing inquiries, cleaning illegal dumping sites and repairing streetlights. The metro says the programme is a mayoral priority that was launched in […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says it strongly opposes the City of Tshwane’s plan to potentially sell or lease the historic Pretoria City Hall to the Iranian government. The hall has not been in operation for about a decade now and requires about 200-million-rand to fix. The Iranian Embassy’s cultural division wants to use the […]
# Wilderness has been selected as the Western Cape finalist in kykNET’s prestigious Dorp van die Jaar 2025 – Town of the Year competition. The competition celebrates the best towns in the nine provinces across South Africa and Namibia. George Municipality’s spokesperson, Chantel Edwards-Klose, says winning this coveted accolade will bring significant exposure and investment […]
# ActionSA in KwaZulu-Natal has requested Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, to urgently intervene in the ongoing collapse of governance and oversight in the KwaDukuza Municipality. The municipality has been plagued by reports of instability and a potential collapse since the ANC removed Lindile Nhaca as mayor in a no-confidence vote in December 2024. […]
# South Africa’s trade union federations and the International Trade Union Confederation are calling for the strengthening of industrial policy capacity across Africa. The federations have emphasised that Africa must secure the necessary resources to support sovereign, worker-led development strategies that break the cycle of dependency and underdevelopment. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela, says they have also […]
# The South African Police Service’s anti-kidnapping task team believes it has broken the back of a syndicate involved in the trafficking of unlicensed firearms. This follows the arrest of two suspects in Meyersdal, Johannesburg, who are believed to have been involved in the moving of unlicensed firearms across the country. National Police spokesperson, Athlenda […]
# The catastrophic floods of April 2022 in Durban, which claimed 544 lives, were made significantly worse by climate change, according to a study led by the University of Witwatersrand. A kilometre-scale climate attribution model was used, which simulated the storm in both today’s warmed climate and a counterfactual world without human-induced global warming. Three key drivers behind […]
# The Forum for South Africa has criticised Public Works minister, Dean Macpherson’s suspension of all Expanded Public Works Programme fund transfers to the Free State’s Matjhabeng Municipality. This follows reports that the municipality’s EPWP payroll is allegedly being used to pay inflated salaries. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says the minister should have dealt with only […]