# North West University principal and vice-chancellor, professor Bismark Tyobeka, has officially turned the first sod at the Potchefstroom Campus construction site of the Desmond Tutu School of Medicine. The state-of-the-art facility, scheduled for completion in 2027, will serve as a flagship academic and intellectual hub at the university. It will be South Africa’s 11th […]
# National Police Commissioner, Fannie Masemola, has condemned the attack on officers of the Anti-Gang Unit while performing their duties in Westbury, Johannesburg, on Tuesday. The officers were attacked by community members after they arrested a man for alleged possession of drugs. National Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe, says Masemola is disappointed in the conduct of […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has condemned the ongoing illegal sand mining activities at Soutpan Spruit river in Soshanguve. She says people are mining on the area’s riverside and are selling the sand for 400-rand a load. Despite causing soil erosion and harming the environment by increasing habitat loss, sand mining also leads to water table depletion and […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya on Tuesday unveiled 14 of the 100 cherry pickers recently purchased by the metro. This forms part of the administration’s broader strategy to reduce dependence on private contractors and rebuild the metro’s internal technical and operational capacity. Mayoral committee member for Corporate and Shared Services, Kholofelo Morodi, says for years, basic […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the City of Tshwane cannot keep financially bailing out the Housing Company Tshwane, as this is unsustainable and a waste of money. The entity is responsible for managing two-thousand-107 housing units. FF Plus’, Lenor Janse van Rensburg, says only 33-percent of rental income is collected annually, while the 160 […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa has welcomed the modest fuel price decreases, attributed to a stronger Rand against the US dollar and lower oil prices. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five-cents a litre, while motorists will also pay 37 cents less for diesel at the pumps. Illuminating paraffin […]
# Roadrunning: The eThekwini Municipality says it is in full swing preparing for the 98th Comrades Marathon, one of the biggest sporting events on the South African calendar. More than 80 nations will be represented in the race, a down-run over approximately 89 kilometres from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on Sunday. The municipality’s spokesperson, Gugu Sisilana, […]
# The GOOD Party says gender-based violence and femicide are a national crisis, and the Western Cape is not immune. Between January and March this year, one-thousand-189 rapes and 411 sexual assaults were reported in the province. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says when rape and murder become a normalised part of childhood in working-class communities, […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says it rejects the shallow celebration by government of the marginal 0.1-percent gross domestic product growth recorded in the first quarter of this year. It says this so-called growth is neither inclusive nor transformative. Saftu’s spokesperson, Newton Masuku, says fiscal, monetary and trade policy will have to […]
