# As the Tshwane Ya Tima revenue-collection programme continues across the metro, mayor Nasiphi Moya is calling on all businesses to pay their municipality bills. This initiative targets all non-paying customers, including businesses, households, and residential estates, as the metro seeks to recover its debt from defaulting clients. Moya says they need to increase revenue collection […]
# The Tshwane District Police is appealing to taxi owners to ensure their vehicles are roadworthy with the correct documentation to operate in the metro. This comes after 18 taxis were impounded in Ga-Rankuwa and Akasia during Operation Shanela yesterday, for operating without valid transport permits. Police spokesperson, Johan van Dyk, says 184 Administrative Adjudication […]
# The City of Cape Town’s Biodiversity Management branch has successfully relocated a hippo bull from the False Bay Nature Reserve to a reserve in Plettenberg Bay. Hippos are very sensitive animals, and notoriously difficult to capture and transport because of their size, strength, potentially dangerous nature and sensitivity to stress. Deputy mayor, Eddie Andrews, says that over the past ten-years, […]
# Eastern Cape have launched a manhunt for suspects following the killing of four men in Kwazakhele, Gqeberha, yesterday afternoon. The men were shot and killed while sitting in a car at Thanduxolo Mbete Street. Police spokesperson, Andre Beetge, says when they arrived on the scene, they discovered the bodies with multiple gunshot wounds in […]
# University of Pretoria third-year LLB student, Kiara Ramluckun, has been awarded the Abe Bailey Travel Bursary. This is for an all-expenses-paid educational tour of England and Scotland later this year. The travel bursary aims to broaden the horizons of young South Africans by exposing them to the UK and its universities, where they participate […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions says the passing of the 2025/2026 Budget’s Appropriation Bill brings budgetary certainty to government. The total government expenditure for the year will amount to 2.3-trillion-rand. Of this 1.17-trillion-rand is allocated directly to national departments. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says they remain concerned that the budget’s overall thrust […]
# ActionSA in Gauteng says it notes with outrage the latest attempt by Ekurhuleni mayor, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, to shift the blame for the punitive 126-rand fixed electricity surcharge onto the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. The mayor claims NERSA prescribed the surcharge. ActionSA’s Zwelithini Mtshali says NERSA does not prescribe municipal tariffs; it approves what […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions says it has presented its submission in support of the African Growth and Opportunities Act’s renewal to the United States’ Trade Representative. With relations between the South African and US governments at a low point, it seems likely that South Africa’s inclusion in the AGOA will not […]
# Five cash-in-transit robbery suspects were killed during a shootout with police in Crown Mines, Johannesburg, yesterday afternoon. Police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi stated that they acted on intelligence about an imminent cash-in-transit heist, and the suspects’ vehicle was identified near the M1/M2 highway split. She says that upon seeing the police, the suspects sped off, […]
