# The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has recognised that the housing backlog remains a pressing issue, with over 750-thousand approved beneficiaries in Gauteng still awaiting allocation. The department’s spokesperson, Tahir Sema says over seven-thousand-200 RDP units were delivered in the last financial year. He says in the current 2025/2026 financial year, 5-billion-rand has been […]
# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola has commended the Police Political Killings Task Team for the swift arrest of suspects that were wanted for the murder of a whistleblower, Xolani Ntombela. Ntombela’s murder docket was one of the 121 returned to the task team for investigation. Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe says a KwaZulu-Natal local chief […]
# The Southern African Freelancers’ Association says millions of peoplearound the world are still excluded from access to basic reading and writing skills. Today marks International Literacy Day, shedding light and focus on the literacy needs of adults, individuals, and communities as a whole. Safrea’s chairperson, Nathi Gule says libraries, be it physical or digital, remain repositories of […]
# The DA says it has written to Transport minister Barbara Creecy, urging her to urgently consider the proposals to address the growing issue of heavy freight trucks wreaking havoc in Nxuba, in the Eastern Cape. The DA’s Heinrich Müller says Nxuba along the N10 corridor has for years been traversed and parked in by heavy trucks, undermining […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says it stands in militant opposition to the ongoing bloodbath of retrenchments across several sectors in the country. ArcellorMittal SA is set to shut down its long steel business by the end of September, resulting in three-thousand-500 job losses. Ford Motor Company SA also plans to […]
# Cosatu says it rejects the attempts by AfriForum and other right-wing extremists to block the National Economic Development and Labour Council engagements on the Firearms Amendment Bill. This comes as the SA Gun Owners’ Association, AfriForum and Safe Citizen have raised the alarm over an internal Business Unity SA notice claiming Nedlac was assembling a […]
# University of Pretoria researcher, professor Hanlie Smuts, says the cost of storing the world’s constantly growing dark data, which is data that is stored but never used, is creating a significant carbon footprint. Globally, data centres already account for approximately two-percent of carbon or greenhouse gas emissions, and this is expected to double by 2030 […]
# A total of 346 suspects were arrested for various criminal offences in Silverton and Villieria in Tshwane during Operation Shanela over the weekend. The suspects were apprehended for crimes ranging from murder, attempted murder, rape, armed robbery and gender-based violence-related crimes. Police spokesperson, Johan van Dyk, says 44 undocumented foreign nationals were also detained […]
# Western Cape MEC of Social Development, Jaco Londt, says the Fountain of Hope Intermediate Child Youth Care Centre in Philippi is a critical response to a long-standing systemic gap in the child protection system in the country. The centre is a first-of-its-kind facility in South Africa, providing accommodation and support for young people transitioning […]
