# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has welcomed the arrest of three city officials who stand accused of the theft of electrical transformers valued at approximately seven-million-rand. Moya says this development represents a serious and necessary step toward protecting the city’s infrastructure and assets. She says Tshwane had accordingly budgeted 565.4-million-rand for the protection of municipal assets for […]
# The City of Cape Town has welcomed the Western Cape High Court’s decision to reinstitute the interim interdict against extortionists and others who are determined to derail the MyCiTi construction project along Govan Mbeki Road in Philippi. The interdict is effective until April 2026. Mayoral committee member for Urban Mobility, Rob Quintas, says any […]
# The Gauteng Department of Health says it will remain on high alert following scheduled water supply interruptions that affected health facilities in Johannesburg. Rand Water has commenced with its infrastructure maintenance at Eikenhof, Zwartkopjes and Palmiet pumping stations that will last until 21 of this month. The department’s spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba says the Helen Joseph […]
# The GOOD Party says gun violence continues to plague the Western Cape. It says the City of Cape Town remains disturbingly unprepared, and seemingly unwilling, to confront the root causes of the crisis. The party says according to the Crime Statistics, over one-thousand people were murdered in the province between January and March this […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says it is pleased that the evidence presented before the Zondo Commission on State Capture is finally bearing fruit. This follows the arrest of former Transnet group CEOs, Brain Molefe and Siyabonga Game, after they were linked to alleged corrupt tenders related to the procurement of locomotives around 2014. The […]
# The minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has announced the country’s first-ever vaccination of poultry as a proactive measure to minimise the risk of avian flu outbreaks. A vaccination permit has been issued to Astral Foods, authorising the company to vaccinate about 200-thousand broiler birds. This represents approximately 5-percent of Astral’s total breeding stock, valued at an estimated […]
# The DA has laid criminal charges against Higher Education minister Nobuhle Nkabane in Cape Town today for lying to Parliament about ANC cadre appointments. The party says she falsely claimed an independent panel made the fraudulent appointments of ANC-linked individuals to Sector Education and Training Authority boards. The chairperson of the DA’s federal council, […]
# City Power says as new electricity tariffs comes to effects today, customers on the Residential Prepaid High tariff will see an average increase of 11.66-percent, primarily due to increases in energy charges. The fixed monthly charges, 70-rand service charge and 130-rand network capacity charge, will remain unchanged. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says a typical customer consuming 800-kilowatt-hour-per-month […]
# The chairperson of the DA’s federal council, Helen Zille, says the party does have a motion of no confidence against president Cyril Ramaphosa. The party accused him of failing to act against corrupt ANC ministers in government after he axed the DA’s deputy minister of Trade and Industry, Andrew Whitfield, for taking an international trip without […]
