# Walter Sisulu University senior lecturer in the Division of Urology, doctor Jeff John, has completed his PhD in Urology through the University of Cape Town. He becomes only the second person in UCT’s history, and the fifth nationally, to receive a PhD in Urology. John has also designed the IsoWire, intended to improve safety […]
# The DA says SAPS Crime Intelligence division chief financial officer, Philani Lushaba, currently in police custody, was a substitute trustee of the Government Employees Pension Fund for the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years. In this role, he allegedly pocketed at least 652-thousand-rand in trustee fees. The DA’s Andrew Bateman says this is extremely concerning given Lushaba’s […]
# The EFF says the failure to resolve gender-based violence and child maintenance cases is not only due to incompetence, but also the deliberate corruption and neglect within the police service. According to statistics, over 33-percent of women over 18-years-old have experienced physical violence. As of February 2024, there were 170-thousand incomplete child maintenance applications […]
# The GOOD Party has welcomed the sentencing of self-confessed apartheid killer policeman Johan Marais. The High Court in Pretoria sentenced the 66-year-old to 15-years imprisonment for the murder of student activist, Caiphus Nyoka, in August 1987. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says this conviction is important to asserting the principles of justice and reasserting […]
# City Power says it is intensifying its campaign against criminality threatening Johannesburg’s power infrastructure. This follows two incidents this week. In the first incident, a City Power contractor technician was held hostage and physically assaulted at a house in Florida, Roodepoort, while conducting a meter audit and disconnection. City Power’s spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, says in […]
# Western Cape Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC, Anton Bredell says the Provincial Disaster Management Centre will remain on alert as inclement weather conditions expected from Friday. The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for very cold, wet and windy conditions across the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces. The department’s […]
# The EFF has written to Finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, rejecting the appointment of David Makhura as a non-executive director to the Development Bank of Southern Africa effective from the first of this month. The party says the DBSA occupies a strategic position in South Africa’s developmental state architecture to promote economic development, institutional capacity building, […]
# The DA says the handover of the investigation report into the naval tragedy in Kommetjie, Cape Town, to the Hawks to investigate culpable homicide charges is long overdue, but an essential first step toward justice. Lieutenant-commander Gillian Hector, master warrant-officer William Mathipa and warrant-officer Mokwapa Mojela were killed in the submarine tragedy in September 2023. […]
# Rugby: The Eastern Cape government is urging people to come out and support the Springboks in the second Test against Italy in Gqeberha on Saturday. Nelson Mandela Bay’s first Test in four years will be a homecoming for coach Rassie Erasmus and players including Makazole Mapimpi, who hails from Mdantsane. Provincial government spokesperson, Khuselwa […]
