# ActionSA says it is concerned that the Road Accident Fund is completely insolvent, with unrecorded liabilities exceeding 500-billion-rand. This amounts to nearly one-fifth of the national government’s entire annual budget. ActionSA’s Matthew George says unrecorded liabilities are one of the most serious financial misstatements by any state entity in democratic South Africa. He says […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says its central executive committee has expressed measured concern about the potential implications of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into criminal activities with the justice system. POPCRU spokesperson Richard Mamabolo says the committee resolved to allow the commission to complete its work and will, upon its conclusion, […]
# The City of Cape Town has welcomed the arrest of four suspects for the hijacking and murder of LEAP officer, Yonke Pakade, who was attacked in the Marikana Informal Settlement in Philippi over the weekend. The 26-year-old was off duty when he was hijacked by a group of suspects. Mayoral committee member for Safety […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union’s central executive committee says time has come for the Alliance partners, the ANC, the South African Communist Party, COSATU, and SANCO to engage through honest dialogue. The SACP announced that it will be contesting the 2026 local government elections independently. POPCRU spokesperson, Richard Mamabolo says the Alliance […]
# The South African Communist Party says the decision to bestow Maria Corina Machado the Nobel Peace Prize has discredited this prize by turning it into an instrument for the imperialist agenda of regime change and coups. The 58-year-old Venezuelan opposition leader was recognised for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered his deep condolences to Zimbabwe and Malawi who have lost compatriots in a bus crash near Makhado in Limpopo yesterday afternoon. The president’s spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, says a reported 42 travellers died in the incident on the N1 while they were en route to their home countries from Gqeberha […]
# ActionSA says after nearly two years of challenging the ANC’s debt settlement agreement with Ezulweni Investments, it has now obtained the confidential agreement. The party’s chairperson, Michael Beaumont, says the agreement shows that the ANC breached the provisions of the Political Party Funding Act. He says the ANC placed an order of election materials […]
# The City of Cape Town says that while the metro budgets for major bi-annual river clean-ups as part of ongoing maintenance, lasting impact can only be sustained by the involvement of the broader society. Recently, hundreds of volunteers joined the Soet River Catchment Management Forum to clean a large section of the chronically polluted […]
# The City of Cape Town says the impacts of climate change have become even more apparent in recent years in the metro, with increases in fires, floods, landspouts and coastal storm surges. Today is International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, with this year’s theme being, Fund Resilience, Not Disasters. Mayoral committee member for Safety […]
