# The Forum for South Africa says it has written to Gauteng Police Commissioner Tommy Mthombeni, requesting an investigation into the Pretoria West Police Station. Forum leader Tebogo Mashilompane says the probe is for possible corruption between police and foreign nationals, who hijack buildings, and also drug dealings in Pretoria West. He claims that police […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has criticised the Johannesburg Property Company board’s decision to retain two CEO simultaneously, saying this move raises serious red flags. The party says it has obtained documents confirming that the board extended former CEO Helen Botes’s contract by one month, despite her term officially ending in September 2024. The DA’s […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in Cape Town has accused the metro of gross negligence for dragging its feet in lodging a damages claim for the roof of the Cape Town Stadium. The party says the metro knew about the damage, which came to light during the installation of Cell C equipment, since 18 November […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union in Gauteng has expressed concern at the shooting of another police officer in Soweto over the weekend. It’s alleged that a police captain shot and killed his girlfriend, a fellow police officer, together with her brother, before turning the gun on himself during a birthday party in […]
# Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has instructed KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Thulasizwe Buthelezi, to intervene in the Umkhanyakude Municipality. Maluleke has raised concerns about the municipality’s failure to implement a credit and debt collection policy. This comes as the municipal council is seeking legal action to interdict a decision by Buthelezi to place […]
# ActionSA says its newly gazetted Constitution Twenty-Second Amendment Bill, if passed, would represent the most significant overhaul of the bloated national executive since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The executive currently consists of 32 ministers and 43 deputy ministers. ActionSA’s spokesperson, Matthew George, says some of the proposals in the bill include abolishing […]
# The Gauteng Health Department has welcomed the judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal in the matter involving the company Buhle Waste, and the awarding of the department’s medical waste tender. The court set aside the judgment of the Gauteng High Court in November 2023, which had declared the tender invalid, due to what it deemed […]
# Government has approved additional guarantee support of 94.8-billion-rand for struggling state-owned Transnet. The new guarantee comprises 48.6-billion-rand to cover all debt redemptions over the next five years, and an additional 46.2-billion-rand to mitigate against further credit rating actions. S&P Global downgraded Transnet’s credit rating due to cash burn of 13.5-billion-rand annually and failure to […]
# AfriForum has lodged an internal appeal against the City of Tshwane’s decision to reject the civil rights organisation’s application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act. This is regarding the ongoing power crisis in Pretoria. AfriForum’s Arno Roodt says AfriForum argues that the Metro did not provide sufficient reasons, as required by […]
