# The City of Cape Town’s Law Enforcement Auxiliary Service has clocked more than 76-thousand hours of patrols over the past year, supporting full-time law enforcement officers. The volunteer service, now in its 13th year, has nearly 380 active members. Auxiliary officers are required to complete at least 192 hours of service a year. Mayoral […]
# The Security Personnel Party of South Africa says it is planning to lodge a complaint with the Electoral Commission for the misuse of public resources for party-political purposes. The party claims that it discovered that the ANC in Tshwane is planning to use the metro’s resources to campaign in ward 93 ahead of the […]
# The Tshwane Metro Police Department arrested 22 suspected illegal immigrants and issued 64 infringement notices during a coordinated law enforcement operation in multiple regions yesterday. In Region Five in Rayton, eleven suspected illegal immigrants were arrested, and 41 infringement notices were issued to motorists. TMPD spokesperson Pulleng Motholo says that in a separate operation […]
# Union UNTU calls on government to urgently step up efforts to curb rising gender-based violence and femicide. A multidisciplinary police team is investigating the murders of nine women whose bodies were discovered across Ekurhuleni in Gauteng the past two months. UNTU spokesperson Atenkosi Plaatjie says the burden can never be placed on women to […]
# The South African Communist Party says it stands with the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ unity and the broader unity of the entire progressive trade union movement. This comes after COSATU’s 15th national congress collapsed earlier this week over a squabble over leadership and delegate credentials. SACP’s Alex Mashilo says it respects COSATU’s organisational […]
# Teachers’ union SADTU says violence against women is not only a gross violation of human rights, but also devastates families and undermines the very foundation of society. This follows the discovery of nine women’s bodies in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng. SADTU spokesperson Nomusa Cembi says they condemn in the strongest terms all acts of brutality. She […]
# Union federation COSATU is concerned about the dangers posed by the Constitutional Court ruling setting aside the Public Procurement Act. The legislation aimed to create uniform rules for how government institutions, provinces, and municipalities spend public money on goods and services. The court ruled the National Assembly failed to allow reasonable public participation following significant […]
# The Gauteng government has accused the DA of exploiting the tragic killings of women in Ekurhuleni for political gain. Earlier this week, the party offered to add 500-thousand-rand to the police’s 400-thousand-rand cash reward for information that could assist the investigation into the murders of nine women. Provincial government spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga says the […]
# The DA says the Constitutional Court judgment declaring the Public Procurement Act unconstitutional and invalid is a decisive victory for constitutional subsidiarity. The Western Cape Government and the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism had challenged Parliament’s process, including the treatment of Chapter 4, which deals with the use of public procurement to advance socioeconomic […]
