# The City of Cape Town says four new murals are adorning the walls of facilities in Delft, Grassy Park, Mfuleni and Valhalla Park. This is part of the Community, Arts and Culture Development Department’s drive to enliven public space and support emerging artists. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Francine Higham, says […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says it will continue pressuring the Emfuleni Municipality to pay the outstanding pension fund contributions, so that officials do not forfeit their benefits. The National Treasury has warned the municipality to pay outstanding staff pension fund contributions within seven days to avoid further action. The FF Plus’ Gerda Senekal says […]
# Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane, has urged teachers to keep upskilling themselves and to keep innovating in the classroom. She addressed the Mega Maths Festival at the University of the Western Cape on Wednesday. The festival is hosted by the department in partnership with the European Union and the African Institute […]
# The DA in Ekurhuleni says it will be approaching the Special Investigation Unit to probe the disappearance of over two-billion-rand from the metro’s revenue, and the alleged link to Mpho Mafole’s murder. Mafole, the metro’s former divisional head of forensic auditing, was looking into the matter before he was killed last month. The DA’s Brandon […]
# The GOOD Party says government must send a strong message to the xenophobes blocking access by foreign nationals to healthcare facilities in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. Last week, Operation Dudula barred foreign nationals from accessing healthcare facilities, including Addington Hospital, Gateway Clinic and RK Khan Hospital in Chatsworth. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says the […]
# Tshwane city manager Johann Mettler has welcomed the positive progress in the seven-million-rand transformer theft case. Three officials are facing charges of theft of essential infrastructure in connection with a transformer stolen from the Claudius Substation in Laudium in November last year. They are out on bail. Another suspect, believed to be the buyer of […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says that during the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development budget vote in Parliament, a bias against all white people, particularly Afrikaners, was obvious. The party’s Wynand Boshoff says representatives from the MK Party and EFF, repeatedly referred to white people as land thieves, adding that the target of […]
# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola announced that the head of the Hawks in the Western Cape, Solomon Makgato has been appointed as acting divisional commissioner for crime intelligence. He says this follows the arrest of the divisional commissioner for crime intelligence Dumisani Khumalo and six others over fraud allegations last month. Masemola says they have full […]
# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola says a total of 12-thousand-499 illegal firearms that were collected across the country, have been destroyed in Gauteng today. Masemola was speaking at the firearm destruction at Cape Gate steel in Vanderbijlpark. He says Gauteng brought in the majority of firearms with five-thousand-and-99 followed by the Western Cape with two-thousand-333, […]