# Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen has welcomed the drop in food inflation to its lowest level in 14 months, but warns that soaring fuel prices are threatening South Africa’s agricultural sector. According to the Consumer Price Index data, annual food and non-alcoholic beverages inflation eased to 2.9-percent in April, down from 3.6-percent in March. Steenhuisen […]
# The Forum for South Africa has expressed concern at public transport operator Putco’s latest fare increase. Putco will increase bus fares by an average of ten-percent from the first of June, fuelled by record-high diesel costs. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says every increase in fares pushes thousands of commuters closer to economic exclusion:
# Union federation Cosatu says it is concerning that the Unemployment Insurance Fund has not shut down its old website. This has resulted in thousands of unemployed South Africans sending their UIF claims through an outdated online system. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela, says the old platform remains live and gives no indication that it is […]
# The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee has greenlit plans for inner-city affordable housing and mixed-use development of a municipal parking lot at the Civic Centre in the CBD. The site is currently used as an open-air staff parking facility. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the site is strategically located within Cape Town’s CBD Foreshore precinct, […]
# The Tshwane Metro Police Department says its Public Transport Unit is continuing to conduct operations to ensure compliance. Seventeen minibuses and one e-hailing vehicle were impounded in Pretoria West this week for operating without valid operating licences. TMPD also inspected four business premises where Section 56 notices were issued for contraventions of the Business […]
# Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says he is satisfied with the progress made in the revitalisation of hostels owned by the provincial government. He visited the revamp project of the George Goch Hostel, on the outskirts of the Johannesburg CBD. The year-on-year phased project, which cost about 120-million-rand so far, accommodates over six-thousand people. The Department […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions has condemned the brutal killing of North West anti-crime activist Thato Molosankwe. He was shot at his home in Mahikeng in the early hours of yesterday morning. Saftu’s spokesperson, Asive Dyani, says Molosankwe’s murder once again raises serious concerns about the levels of violence, lawlessness, and the […]
# General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is urging the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee to cut the interest rate next week. This comes as the latest inflation figures from Statistics South Africa have come in at the upper limit of the one-percentage-point tolerance band of SARB’s new three-percent inflation target. GIWUSA […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says union federation Cosatu can help the fight against procurement corruption in municipalities, without the need for unconstitutional legislation that will slow service delivery with even more red tape. He was responding to Cosatu’s criticism of the metro’s Constitutional Court bid to invalidate the Public Procurement Act. Hill-Lewis says […]
