# The Freedom Front Plus says Emfuleni Municipality’s failure to pay service providers and conclude service agreements with new suppliers on time is exacerbating the financial strain on major industries and businesses. Meteronline, the company responsible for electronically taking electricity consumption readings and automatically transmitting them to the municipality’s billing division, has suspended its services […]
# The City of Cape Town says the nine-million-rand underground electricity cabling project in Hazendal is expected to be completed by mid-November. This is part of the metro’s ongoing investments in the electricity grid in areas across the Mother City. Mayoral committee member for Energy, Xanthea Limberg, says that, as a theft deterrent, teams make […]
# Deputy minister of Human Settlements, Tandi Mahambehlala, accompanied by the Gift of the Givers, will visit Ward 91 in Khayelitsha, Western Cape, today. This is to provide immediate relief support to households affected by last week’s fire. Fifty-two structures were destroyed in the fire, resulting in just over 300 people left displaced. The department’s […]
# The MK Party in Gauteng says it will be approaching the Auditor General and the Public Protector to hold Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya accountable for the reckless expenditure on water tankers. A News24 exposé has revealed that Tshwane’s spending on water tankers has increased to 777-million-rand in the fiscal year that ended in June […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions has expressed concern over a new syndicate stealing essential medicine from public health facilities and illegally transporting it to neighbouring countries. This comes after boxes containing antiretroviral medication and other pharmaceuticals were found at the scene of last Sunday’s fatal bus crash in Limpopo. Saftu’s general secretary, […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions has welcomed efforts by the government to identify and remove ghost posts in the public service. As part of a crackdown on the scourge of ghost employees across national and provincial departments, the Department of Public Service and Administration is conducting unannounced physical verification audits. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew […]
# Saftu says it welcomes Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s declaration that those implicated in the plundering of public resources at Tembisa Hospital, whether living or deceased, must face justice. A Special Investigating Unit probe uncovered three coordinated syndicates behind the looting of two-billion-rand from the hospital. Saftu’s spokesperson, Newton Masuku, says Motsoaledi’s pledge that the […]
# Officials from the Limpopo government and Zimbabwe and Malawi embassies will today meet the families of the 43 people killed in a bus crash outside Louis Trichardt in Limpopo last Sunday. The bus, carrying 91 passengers, veered off the road and plunged down an embankment. Provincial government spokesperson, Thilivhali Muavha, says the meeting marks […]
# Deputy president Paul Mashatile has pledged that South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 will drive a strong Global South agenda, focused on debt relief, inclusive growth, and sustainable development. This comes as many vulnerable low and middle-income countries face high financing costs, large external refinancing needs, and a significant outflow of private capital. Mashatile […]
