# Western Cape premier Alan Winde says Eskom has restored electricity to 80-percent of affected customers as recovery and mop-up operations continue. This follows severe weather incidents that caused widespread damage to infrastructure, disrupted electricity supply and affected hundreds of roads across the province. Winde says in the Cape Winelands District, repairs to the main […]
# The EFF has accused the ANC of deliberately obstructing the Phala Phala impeachment process by failing to appoint members to the committee. According to reports, the ANC missed the 22nd May deadline to submit names to serve on the committee, as chief whip Mdumiseni Ntuli and secretary‑general Fikile Mbalula allegedly clashed over representation. The EFF […]
# The City of Tshwane Emergency Services Department says firefighters discovered a body under rubble during mop-up operations, following a shack fire that ripped through Plastic View informal settlement yesterday. Approximately 150 shacks were affected. Emergency Services spokesperson, Nana Radebe-Kgiba, says during the search and recovery operations, firefighters discovered the body among the debris. She says […]
# Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, is calling on all provincial departments to prioritise vaccinating as many animals as possible over the coming weeks. This follows the arrival of the first batch of a 3.5-million-dose consignment of Biogénesis Bagó foot-and-mouth disease vaccines. This is the largest single consignment of FMD vaccines ever imported into South […]
# The South African National Christian Forum rejects any attempt by the Parliament Section 22 Committee to impose regulatory frameworks, licences, or state-backed oversight on churches. The CRL Rights Commission established the Parliamentary Section 22 Committee to conduct national consultations to draft a self-regulatory framework, code of ethics, and practice council to curb abuses and harmful […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has opened a criminal case against the City’s mayoral committee member for Community Development Planning, Thapelo Amad, for discharging a firearm in public. The party’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku says they recently received information from a reliable source that Amad negligently fired shots into the air in Lufhereng, Soweto. She says at […]
# The DA in Gauteng says it will urgently engage acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia to devolve certain policing powers to the provincial level, enabling a more efficient and responsive crime-prevention strategy. The party’s Crezane Bosch says the latest fourth quarter crime statistics released by police revealed that Gauteng accounted for 54.8-percent of all kidnapping cases […]
# The Public Servants Association is calling on government to urgently address the lack of water and sanitation in communities as it undermines dignity and service delivery. Africa Day is celebrated todat under the African Union’s theme, Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063. The PSA’s spokesperson Claude […]
# Eskom says as winter season period approach, the power system continues to demonstrate improved resilience, with no power supply interruptions in the current financial year to date. The power entity spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says Eskom returns over three-thousand-megawatts of generation capacity to the national grid today to strengthen stable electricity supply ahead of weekly peak […]
