# The Freedom Front Plus has welcomed the Department of Home Affairs’ expansion of its digital banking partnerships, as additional financial institutions will now assist with issuing identity documents and passports. Approximately 840 branches of Capitec, FNB, Absa, Discovery and Standard Bank are now involved in this initiative. FF Plus’ Philip van Staden says this initiative […]
# The GOOD Party says South Africa cannot claim to be building inclusive cities while poor and working-class residents are priced out of their homes by unfair utility charges. Sustained pressure has led to tenants of the DCI Social Housing facility in Goodwood, Cape Town, having their monthly fixed water and electricity charges reduced by […]
# The Gauteng Provincial Legislature’s portfolio committee on Community Safety is set to join the community of Eldorado Park and various civil society organisations at the Protea Magistrate’s Court today. This is for the formal bail application of two parents facing charges related to the abuse, rape and murder of their four-year-old child. Last week, […]
# The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa says the ANC is a capitalist state, designed to protect the property and profits of the dominant minority ruling class. The union says the Marikana massacre would have never happened if the ANC government had been committed to genuinely transforming the country’s economy for the benefit […]
# Major cryptocurrency platform Luno is calling on government to amend Board Notice 90, to permit Collective Investment Schemes to invest a percentage of their asset allocation into crypto assets, like Bitcoin. This follows a recent response to questions in Parliament by the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, who stated that crypto assets are still […]
# The Referendum Party says president Cyril Ramaphosa is refusing to recognise that ANC rule and policies are continuing to crippled the economy. Referendum Party leader Phil Craig says poverty persists and inequality remains crises that are not accidents, but the inevitable result of policies that have crippled the economy, hollowed out state capacity, and […]
# The EFF says the ANC government has failed to protect the people from poverty and unemployment, and it has failed to offer any hope of economic transformation. The party says the closure of tyre manufacturer Goodyear in Kariega, Eastern Cape is not an isolated incident, but part of a broader collapse of what little industry remains in the country. […]
ActionSA in Johannesburg has expressed its deep concern over the appointment of councillor Loyiso Masuku as the new mayoral committee member for Finance in the city. ActionSA’s spokesperson, Zwelithini Mtshali says during her tenure as mayco member for Group Corporate and Shared Services, the city incurred massive wasteful expenditure, amounting to 240-billion-rand in the 2023/2024 […]
# Gauteng Social Development MEC, Faith Mazibuko says her department and Department of Home Affairs will continue to roll out operations aimed at removing children from begging on the streets of Gauteng. The department spokesperson, Motsamai Motlhaolwa says this weekend the coordinated operation in Johannesburg North and South, has resulted in the removal of 19 children and ten mothers […]
