# Hockey: The GOOD Party says the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture must financially support South Africa’s players instead of spending millions on officials’ World Cup trips. The party’s National Youth Organiser, Kaden Arguile, says the South African Hockey Federation’s public appeal for donations is an embarrassment. He says every year, players are sent […]
# ActionSA in the Western Cape says it is alarmed by findings from an oversight visit at Sarepta Old Age Home in Kuilsrivier, where it revealed a facility under severe operational and financial strain. Sarepta currently accommodates 136 residents, with approximately 60-percent of these psychiatric patients who have been discharged from hospitals into the facility’s […]
# The DA says the City of Tshwane must urgently complete the installation of water meters and associated infrastructure throughout Hammanskraal. This follows the commissioning of the Magalies Package Plant, as residents have long complained about the quality of their water, an issue that worsened after the deadly cholera outbreak in 2023. The DA’s Themba Fosi […]
# The DA in Gauteng has called on MEC for Roads and Logistics, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, to urgently resolve tensions with taxi associations. The Gauteng National Taxi Alliance and the South African National Taxi Council have threatened to strike if their demands are not addressed within seven days. They have cited delays in issuing operating licences and […]
# The civic movement Soil of Africa has welcomed minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson’s decision to initiate a comprehensive investigation into the six-thousand-238 state-owned residential properties. The properties are allocated to various user departments and occupied by government officials across the country, with most of them situated in KwaZulu-Natal. Soil of Africa […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says it rejects the government’s decision to accept a 24.78-billion-rand Development Policy loan from the World Bank. The loan is aimed at easing infrastructure bottlenecks that have contributed to a decade of meagre economic growth. Saftu’s General-Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, says this loan forms part of a broader […]
# The Gauteng Health Department has condemned what it calls a reckless and misleading media statement issued by the DA. In the statement, the party alleges that patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital were being denied essential medicines due to shortages. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says hospital management engaged the DA’s Madeleine Hicklin and […]
# The office of the Independent Directorate Against Corruption Oversight Judge says it has received formal complaints against the anti-corruption directorate boss Andrea Johnson. She is facing serious accusations, including that she leaked the contents of a criminal complaint directly to senior Crime Intelligence officer Feroz Khan, the very individual named in the complaint. The IDAC’s […]
# Forum for South Africa has welcomed Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson’s decision to initiate an investigation into the six-thousand-238 state-owned residential properties allocated to government departments and occupied by officials. The department estimates 39.6-million-rand was spent from its day-to-day maintenance budget for only 108 of the properties during the previous financial year. […]
