# The Public Service Association has submitted a memorandum to Trade, Industry, and Competition minister, Parks Tau, calling for immediate and decisive action to prevent a further decline of the National Lotteries Commission. President Cyril Ramaphosa recently signed a proclamation authorising the Special Investigating Unit to probe corruption at the NLC. PSA’s Claude Naiker, says the […]
# ActionSA in Gauteng has strongly condemned the ongoing taxi violence that has claimed 59 lives since January. A taxi marshal belonging to the Witwatersrand African Taxi Association was among three marshals who were shot and killed in Mofolo, in Soweto this week. ActionSA’s, John Moodey, says merely condemning these atrocious acts has failed in […]
# The Institute of Race Relations says opposition parties rejecting the value-added tax increase proposed in the budget fiscal framework is a principled stand, but anti-enterprise policies must also be confronted. The institute has urged the EFF and MK Party to go beyond opposing the VAT hike by actively protecting poor communities from what amounts to […]
# Residents of Lesedi Local Municipality in Gauteng are currently facing interrupted water supply as Rand Water has reduced the municipality’s water supply pressure by 20-percent. This is due to the municipality owing the water utility close to 121-million-rand. Since last weekend water flow has been getting weaker. The Freedom Front Plus in Gauteng says […]
# The GOOD Party says inclusive economic growth and job creation remain urgent priorities for every municipality in South Africa. The country’s unemployment rate, the percentage of the working-age population that is employed, is about 40-percent, far below the global average of 55-to-65-percent. GOOD’s, Sarah Mabotsa, says with far too many people especially the youth […]
# The City of Johannesburg says an eight-year-old boy from Mapetla in Soweto has been hospitilised in ICU after eating suspected poisoned snacks form a spaza shop. Johannesburg’s Department of Environmental Health were informed that on Saturday, Omphile Molobela, bought a maize snack which the city’s spokesperson, Virgil James says he shared with his three siblings at home. He started vomiting […]
# The DA says it has submitted two Promotion of Access to Information Act applications to the Department of Transport and the Airports Company South Africa to ensure transparency and accountability for the airports’ crisis. Airports in South Africa are faced with multiple issues, including systemic failures in air traffic safety, failing infrastructure, mismanagement and fuel […]
# Water and Sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina has cautioned residents living within the flood line along the Vaal River System, downstream of the Vaal Dam and Bloemhof Dam, that low-lying areas remain vulnerable. This is due to the open sluice gates at both dams, which are being used to manage water levels. Majodina urged residents to […]
# Civil society, led by Women for Change, demands that president Cyril Ramaphosa must declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster. According to Statistics South Africa over 50-percent of assaults against women are committed by someone they know, with intimate partners or spouses accounting for at least 15-percent of these attacks. Women for Change’s Lesego […]
