# The DA says Home Affair’s current digital transformation shows the department is overcoming its historical association with queues, system failures and inefficiency. Minister Leon Schreiber is attending a congress in Dubai this week, showcasing his department’s rapidly accelerating digital transformation. The DA’s Adrian Roos says Home Affairs has embarked on an ambitious programme to […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers says it rejects the gradual privatisation and liberalisation of the country’s electricity grid. President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the Eskom Restructuring Task Team phase one report, as government looks to establish an independent transmission system operator. NUM’s spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, says transferring transmission assets away from Eskom risks fragmentation, […]
# The Motor Transport Workers Union South Africa has condemned the continued bombing and violent attacks on cash-in-transit workers and vehicles, and the unacceptable risks its members are being forced to face while executing their duties. Two security officers were shot and killed, and one injured during a robbery in Mamelodi, Tshwane, on Monday. Two […]
# KwaZulu-Natal Police have arrested a 40-year-old woman in connection with the murder of musician Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock. This brings to three the number of suspects apprehended. Stock was shot dead in December last year, outside a hijacked building in the Johannesburg CBD. Last month, Mozambican Armando Pacula, the confessed gunman, was sentenced to […]
# MK Party leader Jacob Zuma has ordered an investigation into allegations that duly nominated councillor candidates were removed from the party lists submitted to the Electoral Commission and replaced with other names. The allegations stem from the recent councillor selection process ahead of the local government elections. Zandile Hlophe-Mkhwanazi and Sibonelo Maphumulo have been […]
# The Public Servants Association says it remains extremely concerned about structural weaknesses that continue to undermine the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption’s independence. This follows revelations about IDAC operations being exposed at the Madlanga Commission. PSA’s Claude Naicker says the IDAC’s direct reporting to the minister of Justice raises serious concerns about its autonomy and undermines […]
# Golden Arrow Bus Services has welcomed the Labour Court’s decision to grant an interdict preventing today’s planned strike action by the National Union for All Sectors. The issues raised by the union relate, among other things, to the application of disciplinary processes. Golden Arrow spokesperson, Bronwen Dyke-Beyer, says that where an employee believes that […]
# The ANC says it will oppose the DA’s application to intervene in its Electoral Court case over the submission of candidate lists in six municipalities for the November local government elections. The ANC is appealing the Electoral Commission’s exclusion of candidates, after missing the 28 August deadline, blaming a “technical glitch” on the online […]
# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta is encouraging young people to consider applying to study at technical and vocational education and training colleges for the 2027 academic year. Applications for TVET colleges close on 30 September. Makaneta says South Africans need to change the way they look at TVET colleges, urging young people to treat colleges […]
