# The Freedom Front Plus is encouraging non-profit organisations in Gauteng, whose funding applications for the 2025/2026 cycle have been rejected, to apply for an appeal. The party’s Anton Alberts says the appeal process is important because additional information can be submitted to the Department of Social Development as reasons for reconsideration. He adds that […]
# The City of Cape Town’s Public Emergency Communication Centre recorded 84 motor vehicle and pedestrian accidents in 48 hours. This is a nearly 50-percent increase compared to the last wet weather weekend in March. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says Cape Town Traffic officers made 34 arrests, 24 for driving under […]
# Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu has expressed concern over the continued stubbornness and brutality of criminal elements, particularly in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Eight suspected murderers have been killed by police in less than 24 hours in Hammersdale and Inanda in KwaZulu-Natal. The ministry’s spokesperson, Kamogelo Mogotsi, says these criminals have brazenly posted on social media and […]
# Cosatu has welcomed the Gauteng State of Ethics Report released by the Gauteng Ethics Advisory Council. The report found that 152 officials in the provincial government are doing business with the state despite that being a criminal offence. It also found that of the 19 senior executives assessed by the Special Investigating Unit, 37-percent […]
# ActionSA says voting for the DA in the 2026 local government elections is not a protest vote; it is a vote for dysfunction, collapse, and political grandstanding. The party’s Funzi Ngobeni says that in 2014, Helen Zille told South Africans not to waste their votes on smaller parties, and a decade later, she is still […]
# The MK Party says the decline of the National Lotteries Commission represents far more than the mismanagement of a public institution; it’s a betrayal of public trust. It says it has written to minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, to express dissatisfaction regarding the imminent collapse of the National Lotteries Commission, but […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has emphasised the need for an immediate strengthening of security protocols in all court precincts. This comes after a KwaZulu-Natal court official shot and killed an accused person, who had grabbed his colleague’s firearm at the Melmoth Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning. The ministry’s spokesperson, Terrence Manase, […]
# BOSA is calling for full transparency following the revelation that Gold Rush Consortium is the preferred bidder for the multi-billion-rand contract to operate South Africa’s national lottery. Spokesperson Roger Solomons says this follows the party’s submission of a Promotion of Access to Information Act application to obtain the names of the members of the […]
# Tiger Brands has confirmed that the attorneys representing its lead re-insurer have presented a settlement offer to the plaintiffs’ attorneys as part of a possible overall resolution of the listeriosis class action. A total of one-thousand-and-60 listeriosis cases were reported between January 2017 until July 2018. Tiger Brands says it is offering payment for […]
