# Five suspected cash-in-transit robbers were killed in a shootout with police in Ridgeview, Durban on Wednesday. It is understood the group was being monitored following Monday’s cash-in-transit heist on the M25 highway in KwaMashu, where an undisclosed amount of cash was taken. Police spokesperson, Robert Netshiunda, says they were conducting an intelligence-led operation after gathering information […]
# GOOD Party leader, Patricia de Lille, says now is not the time for party posturing and politicking, but for courageous national decision-making on identifying and meeting South Africa’s priorities. The ANC managed to get the fiscal framework and revenue proposals underpinning the national budget across the line in the National Assembly on Wednesday. De Lille […]
# The National Council of SPCAs says it has successfully countered legal manoeuvres by the defence in the ongoing animal cruelty case against the Phumelela Integrated Farming Trust formerly known as Vrede Dairy Farm. The council’s spokesperson, Jacques Peacock says the accused attempted to evade criminal liability by arguing that, as trustees, they are only […]
# Cosatu says it whole-heartedly supports the Department of Employment and Labour’s compliance inspections of working and living conditions on farms across the country. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela says recently in North West, the inspections uncovered contraventions including unlawful deductions that had the effect of undermining the minimum wage, appalling living conditions, race segregated living […]
# Tax Justice SA founder Yusuf Abramjee says the South African Revenue Service’s recovery of 30-billion-rand from syndicated crime over the past year underscores both a significant victory and a stark warning. SARS revealed that the 30-billion-rand was recovered through just 198 complex investigations into syndicated crime. Abramjee says these figures should serve as a wake-up […]
# Stellenbosch University’s new Rector and Vice-Chancellor, professor Deresh Ramjugernath, views academic excellence to be front and centre as one of his three focus areas for the next few years. He officially stepped into his new role on Tuesday, taking over from professor Wim de Villiers, who completed two terms at the helm. Ramjugernath says […]
# Cosatu has welcomed the government’s effort to keep ArcelorMittal South Africa’s two key steel mills in Newcastle and Vereeniging operational. This is as the company has deferred the decision to wind down its long steel business by at least six months, to August 31st, as it has received a 1.68-billion-rand loan from the government’s […]
# The GOOD Party says the City of Cape Town cannot allow mismanagement and flagrant human rights abuses to take hold in its Pickwick Transitional Housing project in Salt River. Reportedly, residents had been arbitrarily detained or locked out of their place of residence. Illegal evictions at the discretion of security guards and facility managers […]
# The DA in Gauteng is demanding the immediate dismissal of ten teachers, who are convicted sexual offenders but are still working with children at schools. This was revealed by Education MEC, Matome Chiloane, in replies to the party’s questions in the provincial Legislature. The DA’s, Michael Waters, says Chiloane revealed that a total of […]
