# The GOOD Party says newly-appointed Western Cape police commissioner, Sizakhele Dyantyi, has inherited the impossible task of curbing gangsterism in communities on which municipal and provincial authorities have effectively turned their backs. GOOD’s secretary-general, Brett Herron, says the culture of gangsterism and violence, especially on the Cape Flats, has not been eradicated because the […]
# Twelve people, including five children, have been killed and over 60 others injured in a bus crash on the N1 between Trompsburg and Edenburg in the Free State. The driver of the bus and trailer, reportedly travelling to Zimbabwe, lost control and it overturned. The Road Traffic Management Corporation’s Simon Zwane urges motorists, particularly […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed seven members of the National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide for a three-year period. The statutory body is mandated to provide strategic leadership on the elimination of the scourge. Ramalepe Lebogang Mathibe has been appointed as chairperson. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says the council has also been tasked […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has endorsed the phase one report of the Eskom Restructuring Task Team, setting out the recommendations for establishing an independent Transmission System Operator separate from Eskom. The Electricity Regulation Act provides for the establishment of the TSO by no later than 31 December 2029. Ramaphosa’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says the report […]
# The DA will launch its own investigation into allegations of luxury accommodation, double-booking and excessive travel expenditure by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s administration. Daily Maverick reports taxpayers paid nine-thousand-200-rand for administrator Hlengani Mathebula’s stay of four nights at the Pepperclub Hotel and Spa in May, and he also appointed four advisers for nearly […]
# The Department of Social Development is urging South Africans, particularly young people, to be vigilant against fake online job offers used by human traffickers. An increasing number of young citizens have been trafficked to scam compounds in Myanmar after accepting apparent legitimate job offers in Thailand. Spokesperson Sandy Godlwana says victims are taken across […]
# The ANC in Ekurhuleni says it will not be intimidated by criminality or allow violence to undermine its democratic process and organisational unity. This follows a shooting at the residence of Councillor Lucky Zikode in Katlehong, which left two party members injured. The ANC has condemned this incident, calling it ‘barbaric and cowardly’. The […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the metro’s capital expenditure tally of over 12.2-billion-rand for the 2025/2026 financial year is not only a record infrastructure investment for Cape Town, but a South African record for a city in a single year. Around 75-percent of the metro’s infrastructure investment directly benefits lower-income households. Hill-Lewis says […]
# The ANC has urged all eligible South Africans who have not yet registered as voters to do so in the second and final national voter registration weekend, tomorrow and Sunday. This is ahead of the November local government elections. During the first voter registration weekend held on 20 and 21 June, over three million […]
