# The EFF says Road Accident Fund CEO, Collins Letsoalo, is not only being targeted for his transformation work, but also for his bold stance against corruption within the judiciary. This as he has been placed on special leave. A leaked preliminary Special Investigations Unit report implicates Letsoalo in possible wrongdoing in a 79-million-rand lease […]
# The DA says it is deeply shocked by the growing number of officers implicated in serious crimes, but who are still in service. The party’s, Ian Cameron, says the officers implicated included a police constable currently stationed in Kuilsriver, out on bail for rape, yet who remains in service. Cameron says a national audit […]
# Cosatu says the rising number of municipalities battling to pay staff, including pension funds, or provide basic services to residents, requires drastic interventions to stabilise and rebuild local government. Municipal debt owed to Eskom is sitting at around 94-billion-rand. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says they are concerned about community debt owed to municipalities nearing […]
# The DA in Gauteng has welcomed a resolution by the council to request the MEC of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Jacob Mamabolo, to suspend Sedibeng mayor, Lerato Maloka. This is pending a full investigation into allegations against her. The DA’s Sibusiso Dyonase, says the resolution centres around Maloka, and other municipal officials’ misdeeds […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is calling on the South African Reserve Bank to drastically cut the interest rate. South Africa’s current repo rate remains at 7.5-percent, after SARB chose to keep rates unchanged at its March Monetary Policy Committee meeting. This decision followed three consecutive 25-basis-point cuts. The prime lending […]
# Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, says that intensified efforts by his department to control and eradicate foot-and-mouth disease are paying off. This as disease management areas of two provinces, Limpopo and Eastern Cape, will soon be lifted, and an urgent order has been placed for much-needed vaccines to the value of 72-million-rand. Ministry’s spokesperson, […]
# The GOOD Party has welcomed the released amendments to the City of Cape Town’s draft budget. The party’s, Anton Louw, says as a result of public pressure during the initial comment period, the amended budget includes tangible relief for some residents. He says these include the pensioner rates rebate threshold raised from 22-thousand-rand to […]
# The DA says the new Mineral Resources Bill which was unveiled for public comment last week, will effectively end the already tottering case for foreign investment in South African mining. The DA’s James Lorimer says the bill allows for the rapid overturning of the principle of “once empowered, always empowered”, opening the door to […]
# The EFF has noted the withdrawal, by Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport, of the agenda item on the repeal of the South African Airways Bill on the basis that the SAA-Takatso deal has been terminated. It condemned the withdrawal as an attempt to avoid accountability and to stop further investigation into what was clearly an attempt […]
