# The Forum for South Africa has welcomed the disbarment and 10-million-rand fine imposed on Sipho Malaba by the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors for his role in the collapse of VBS Mutual Bank. FOSA leader Tebogo Msshilompane says this is not justice, it is only administrative punishment. He says the looting of VBS in […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa called on world leaders to restore the United Nations to its position at the centre of international relations. Ramaphosa was addressing the Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona, Spain. The president says world leaders must advance peace through dialogue and diplomacy, through the consistent application of international law and adherence to the […]
# COSATU has congratulated its affiliate, the National Union of Mineworkers, on reaching a multi-year salary agreement with Eskom. NUM signed a three-year, seven-percent salary hike for workers at the state-owned utility. COSATU’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela says the agreement is set to come into effect on 1 July. She adds that trade union, Solidarity, also […]
# The GOOD Party is calling on Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister Willie Aucamp to prioritise an immediate re-evaluation and a pause on industrial expansion on the West Coast. The party’s Kaden Arguile says official quotas for crayfish have been delayed, miscalculated, and left unchallengeable, resulting in a massive loss of income for the community. He says they cannot continue […]
# The DA has called on Justice and Constitutional Development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi and the National Prosecuting Authority’s leadership to account for the alarming decline in firearm convictions and failures in the prosecution system. The party’s Nicholas Gotsell says according to Kubayi’s response, over the past two years, a total of ten-thousand-315 cases involving the illegal possession of firearms and ammunition […]
# ActionSA says it will continue with mayor Nasiphi Moya’s delivery tour across the metro. Chairperson Michael Beaumont says despite being in office for around 18-months, Moya and the coalition government she leads already has a commendable record of service. He says these leaders exist, they have started the turnaround of Tshwane and they need more […]
# The DA newly elected leadership celebrated the restoration of nearly 300 small-scale fishing vessel permits in the Traditional Linefish sector, together with local fishers in the Western Cape. The party’s Tertuis Simmers says the joyous occasion at St. Helena Bay Harbour included a hands-on engagement visit to the fish processing facility where leaders rolled up […]
# The ANC says the party’s national executive committee is engaging its structures across the country this weekend about the South African Communist Party’s decision to contest the upcoming local government elections independently of the Alliance. Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu says these engagements are aimed at ensuring a uniform understanding of the NEC decision across all […]
# The Freedom Front Plus in the Western Cape has welcomed the Hessequa local municipality’s decision to abandon its planned resettlement of small-scale farmers from Mossel Bay to the Still Bay area. Spokesperson Gert van Niekerk says with a decisive 16 to ten vote during a special council meeting, the Department of Rural Development and […]
