# The Eastern Cape Health Department has adopted the use of the Central Supplier Database quotation system, which has been developed by the National Treasury. The CSD serves as the source of all supplier information for all spheres of government. The department’s spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, says this new system will help reduce duplication of effort and […]
# FNB senior economist, Koketso Mano, says with harvesting of summer crops in full swing, the latest fuel cut will boost farmers’ profitability as it accounts for almost 13-percent of input costs in grain production. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five cents a litre. Motorists are also now paying 37-cents less for diesel […]
# The DA says the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has failed to process existing claims despite having had the legal framework, time, and funding to do so. To date, over 52-billion-rand has been spent on land restitution. The DA’s, Sonja Boshoff, says more than five-thousand-700 land claims lodged before the original 1998 […]
# The City of Tshwane has welcomed the breakthrough in the ongoing investigation into the illegal transfer of about 11-million-rand into fraudulent municipal accounts. A former director and accountant within the metro, Tienka Abbort, who has been evading arrest in connection with this matter, was recently apprehended and appeared before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on […]
# The EFF says it firmly rejects the report of Parliament’s standing committee on Finance, which adopted the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals tabled by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana last month. The passing of the fiscal framework is a key step in the budgeting process. The framework establishes economic policy and revenue projections and sets the […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the vast majority of illegal firearm cases in the metro never make it to trial due to the broken criminal justice system. A SAPS media release claims conviction rates of 80-to-90-percent in illegal firearm court cases. Hill-Lewis says over four years, only five-percent of convictions were secured of […]
# The Freedom Front Plus is calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to explain to South Africans why he signed the National Health Insurance Act into law shortly before last year’s elections. This as the president has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a high court ruling, that he give reasons for assenting to the NHI […]
# Johannesburg Water says following the completion of Rand Water’s Palmiet maintenance, it continues to implement technical measures to support the recovery of affected water systems. Spokesperson, Nombuso Shabalala says the restoration process resumed yesterday, and Johannesburg Water has put interventions in place, including throttling and temporarily closing outlets. She says most affected systems have improved:
# The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa launched a report entitled, Food for Thought. The report aims to better understand how some of the institute’s partners and client groups have been affected by and responded to food insecurity and hunger issues. It says 23.1-percent of households nationally consider their access to food as inadequate or severely inadequate. The institute […]
