# The City of Tshwane has welcomed the breakthrough in the ongoing investigation into the illegal transfer of about 11-million-rand into fraudulent municipal accounts. A former director and accountant within the metro, Tienka Abbort, who has been evading arrest in connection with this matter, was recently apprehended and appeared before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on […]
# The EFF says it firmly rejects the report of Parliament’s standing committee on Finance, which adopted the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals tabled by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana last month. The passing of the fiscal framework is a key step in the budgeting process. The framework establishes economic policy and revenue projections and sets the […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the vast majority of illegal firearm cases in the metro never make it to trial due to the broken criminal justice system. A SAPS media release claims conviction rates of 80-to-90-percent in illegal firearm court cases. Hill-Lewis says over four years, only five-percent of convictions were secured of […]
# The Freedom Front Plus is calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to explain to South Africans why he signed the National Health Insurance Act into law shortly before last year’s elections. This as the president has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a high court ruling, that he give reasons for assenting to the NHI […]
# Johannesburg Water says following the completion of Rand Water’s Palmiet maintenance, it continues to implement technical measures to support the recovery of affected water systems. Spokesperson, Nombuso Shabalala says the restoration process resumed yesterday, and Johannesburg Water has put interventions in place, including throttling and temporarily closing outlets. She says most affected systems have improved:
# The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa launched a report entitled, Food for Thought. The report aims to better understand how some of the institute’s partners and client groups have been affected by and responded to food insecurity and hunger issues. It says 23.1-percent of households nationally consider their access to food as inadequate or severely inadequate. The institute […]
# Three students have been arrested in connection with alleged public violence, damage to infrastructure and damage to property at the Walter Sisulu University Mthatha campus, in the Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson, Nobuntu Gantana says there are ongoing student protests at the university concerning the release on bail of a murder suspect linked to the […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says 0.1-percent gross domestic product growth confirms that South Africa is trapped in a deep, structural crisis of capitalism, characterised by stagnation, deindustrialisation, and neocolonial plunder. GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei says the country is confronted with an organic crisis, where the fundamental contradictions of monopoly capital, imperialist […]
# The CEO of AgriSA, Johann Kotze, says South Africa needs a food security index that will be active in real time. Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined as a state which exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to […]
