# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says 0.1-percent gross domestic product growth confirms that South Africa is trapped in a deep, structural crisis of capitalism, characterised by stagnation, deindustrialisation, and neocolonial plunder. GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei says the country is confronted with an organic crisis, where the fundamental contradictions of monopoly capital, imperialist […]
# The CEO of AgriSA, Johann Kotze, says South Africa needs a food security index that will be active in real time. Based on the 1996 World Food Summit, food security is defined as a state which exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to […]
# ActionSA has called on the police to immediately prioritise the safety of children by ensuring fast, coordinated responses to all missing children’s reports, reinstating specialised child protection and gender-based violence investigation units. The party says Gauteng police launched a manhunt for suspects after 14-year-old Lukhona Fose was found murdered in Durban Deep, Roodepoort. ActionSA’s Elmari Atterbury says […]
# Stellenbosch University third-year BCom International Business student, Abigail Larsen, is co-developing a groundbreaking digital platform, designed to mobilise a new generation of volunteers, leaders and social entrepreneurs. Thallo is a social media platform connecting volunteers with organisations and charities, aiming to bridge the gap between socially aware individuals and NGOs. Twenty-one-year-old Larsen describes Thallo […]
# Cosatu says the government must honour its 2018 and 2022 commitments for a comprehensive review of the various fuel taxes and levies, which consume approximately a third of the fuel price. The fuel levy increase has come into effect, after the Western Cape High Court dismissed the EFF’s application to suspend it. Cosatu’s spokesperson, […]
# The City of Tshwane Community Safety Department has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tshwane Metro Police and Aware.org. The department says this is a decisive step forward in the fight against alcohol-impaired driving. Under the terms of this partnership, Aware.org has handed over 200 state-of-the-art blood-alcohol testing kits to the TMPD. The […]
# The DA in the Western Cape says no child should vanish in their own community without swift and decisive action to bring them home safely. On Tuesday, a female body was discovered during a community search for missing teenager, Chanelle Plaatjies, in Paarl. Police have not confirmed if the body discovered is Plaatjies. The […]
# The University of Witwatersrand says the Wits Food Sovereignty Hub, a multi-purpose site for food production, is strengthening the drive to reclaim food production and increase community gardens. The university says gardens on campus help to support food-insecure students by providing fresh vegetables. It adds that building food systems that are independent of financial input is […]
# The GOOD Party says it has again written to the Cape Town City Manager regarding the metro’s continued failure to act on a blatant violation of its own Events Policy. This is concerning the DA’s use of the Jive Cape Town Funny Festival as a political fundraiser. GOOD’s, Jonathan Cupido, says the use of […]
