# Cosatu has welcomed the Gauteng State of Ethics Report released by the Gauteng Ethics Advisory Council. The report found that 152 officials in the provincial government are doing business with the state despite that being a criminal offence. It also found that of the 19 senior executives assessed by the Special Investigating Unit, 37-percent […]
# ActionSA says voting for the DA in the 2026 local government elections is not a protest vote; it is a vote for dysfunction, collapse, and political grandstanding. The party’s Funzi Ngobeni says that in 2014, Helen Zille told South Africans not to waste their votes on smaller parties, and a decade later, she is still […]
# The MK Party says the decline of the National Lotteries Commission represents far more than the mismanagement of a public institution; it’s a betrayal of public trust. It says it has written to minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, to express dissatisfaction regarding the imminent collapse of the National Lotteries Commission, but […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has emphasised the need for an immediate strengthening of security protocols in all court precincts. This comes after a KwaZulu-Natal court official shot and killed an accused person, who had grabbed his colleague’s firearm at the Melmoth Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning. The ministry’s spokesperson, Terrence Manase, […]
# BOSA is calling for full transparency following the revelation that Gold Rush Consortium is the preferred bidder for the multi-billion-rand contract to operate South Africa’s national lottery. Spokesperson Roger Solomons says this follows the party’s submission of a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to obtain the names of the members of the […]
# Tiger Brands has confirmed that the attorneys representing its lead re-insurer have presented a settlement offer to the plaintiffs’ attorneys as part of a possible overall resolution of the listeriosis class action. A total of one-thousand-and-60 listeriosis cases were reported between January 2017 until July 2018. Tiger Brands says it is offering payment for […]
# The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union is calling on government especially National Treasury to uplift austerity measures to free nurses from the bondage of staff shortages. NEHAWU’s spokesperson, Lwazi Nkolonzi says government’s programme of austerity measures has had a particular impact on the capacity of the state to deliver service in health. […]
# The Department of Health says it plans to recruit 200 additional nurses in the coming months in a bid to ease workloads and improve care. Today is International Nurses’ Day under the theme, Our nurses. Our future. Caring for nurses strengthens economies. The department’s spokesperson, Foster Mohale, says the recruitment of more nurses is […]
# The UDM in Gauteng is demanding an independent forensic investigation into the provincial government’s underspending of its annual budget. The provincial government has returned money to the National Treasury after underspending by 1.8-billion-rand. UDM’s Andile Jabavu says it is both unethical and unconscionable that a government entrusted with public resources could fail to spend […]
