# The Tshwane Economic Development Agency will save more than 17-million-rand over the next five years, after relocating from privately leased offices to city-owned premises in Centurion. The move has reduced the agency’s monthly accommodation costs from 373-thousand-703 to approximately 74-thousand, an 80-percent reduction that will save the entity around 3.6-million-rand annually. Tshwane’s mayoral committee […]
# The City of Cape Town is urging residents to comment on the Comprehensive Integrated Transport Plan, which guides the priorities and activities of the Urban Mobility Directorate to achieve an integrated transport system. The plan addresses the need for a diagnosis of the central transport problem in the metro and strengthening mechanisms to enable […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on International Relations and Cooperation has welcomed the conclusion of the investigation into the South African High Commissioner to India, professor Anil Sooklal. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has cleared Sooklal of any wrongdoing when he attended the same religious event in Haridwar, India, as former president Jacob Zuma […]
# The City of Johannesburg’s leadership has ordered urgent and decisive action to restore law, order and cleanliness in the Inner City. Mayor Dada Morero and City Manager Floyd Brink met with senior management of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department yesterday, demanding stronger enforcement, greater accountability and visible operational improvements. The metro’s spokesperson, Nthatisi Modingoane, […]
# Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy says government is pursuing legislative amendments to move towards a strict zero percent blood alcohol policy as part of efforts to improve road safety. The legislative amendments will be made to Section 65 of the National Road Traffic Act. More than 18-thousand people were arrested for drunken driving between March and […]
# FNB Bank senior agricultural economist, Paul Makube, says today’s sharp fuel-price increase has arrived at a sensitive time for the agricultural sector, just weeks before the start of the summer crop production season. Petrol prices have increased by one-rand-34-cents a litre, and diesel prices by between two-rand-93- and three-rand-15-cents per litre. Makube says the […]
# The City of Johannesburg has appointed Lesiba Arnold Malotana as new head of the Department for Public Safety after a comprehensive recruitment, selection and assessment process. The appointment of the former head of the Gauteng Department of Health is controversial after a lifestyle audit conducted by the Special Investigating Unit classified him as ‘high […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, David Maynier, says repairs to the flood damaged area at the Bontebok National Park in the Western Cape are expected to cost 12.3-million-rand. He says the park sustained severe damage to some of its chalets and picnic sites, as well as the main access road to the […]
# Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says the appointment of Leonard Lekgetho as the new head of the Special Investigating Unit comes at a time when government continues to strengthen its efforts to combat corruption. Lekgetho’s experience spans 19 years, from 2007 to the present in the SIU. The department’s spokesperson, Palesa […]
