# The City of Tshwane Community Safety Department has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tshwane Metro Police and Aware.org. The department says this is a decisive step forward in the fight against alcohol-impaired driving. Under the terms of this partnership, Aware.org has handed over 200 state-of-the-art blood-alcohol testing kits to the TMPD. The […]
# The DA in the Western Cape says no child should vanish in their own community without swift and decisive action to bring them home safely. On Tuesday, a female body was discovered during a community search for missing teenager, Chanelle Plaatjies, in Paarl. Police have not confirmed if the body discovered is Plaatjies. The […]
# The University of Witwatersrand says the Wits Food Sovereignty Hub, a multi-purpose site for food production, is strengthening the drive to reclaim food production and increase community gardens. The university says gardens on campus help to support food-insecure students by providing fresh vegetables. It adds that building food systems that are independent of financial input is […]
# The GOOD Party says it has again written to the Cape Town City Manager regarding the metro’s continued failure to act on a blatant violation of its own Events Policy. This is concerning the DA’s use of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival as a political fundraiser. GOOD’s, Jonathan Cupido, says the use of […]
# North West University principal and vice-chancellor, professor Bismark Tyobeka, has officially turned the first sod at the Potchefstroom Campus construction site of the Desmond Tutu School of Medicine. The state-of-the-art facility, scheduled for completion in 2027, will serve as a flagship academic and intellectual hub at the university. It will be South Africa’s 11th […]
# National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, has condemned the attack on officers of the Anti-Gang Unit while performing their duties in Westbury, Johannesburg, on Tuesday. The officers were attacked by community members after they arrested a man for alleged possession of drugs. National Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe, says Masemola is disappointed in the conduct of […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has condemned the ongoing illegal sand mining activities at Soutpan Spruit river in Soshanguve. She says people are mining on the area’s riverside and are selling the sand for 400-rand a load. Despite causing soil erosion and harming the environment by increasing habitat loss, sand mining also leads to water table depletion and […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya on Tuesday unveiled 14 of the 100 cherry pickers recently purchased by the metro. This forms part of the administration’s broader strategy to reduce dependence on private contractors and rebuild the metro’s internal technical and operational capacity. Mayoral committee member for Corporate and Shared Services, Kholofelo Morodi, says for years, basic […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the City of Tshwane cannot keep financially bailing out the Housing Company Tshwane, as this is unsustainable and a waste of money. The entity is responsible for managing two-thousand-107 housing units. FF Plus’, Lenor Janse van Rensburg, says only 33-percent of rental income is collected annually, while the 160 […]
