# Cape Town Tourism will launch a series of Destination Intelligence workshops to help tourism and hospitality businesses make better use of the data they already collect. The initiative follows a member engagement session highlighting that many businesses analyse only a fraction of their information. Chief Executive Officer Enver Duminy says the workshops will equip […]
# The African Christian Democratic Party is calling on the City of Ekurhuleni to conduct annual cybersecurity audits to strengthen its IT systems and prevent future cyberattacks. The party’s Palesa Yates says replacing the city’s financial management IT system alone is insufficient after a recent hacking incident that reportedly cost nearly two-billion-rand. She says secure […]
# Die Departement van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing ondersoek berigte van sardyne wat vrek langs die Wes-Kaapse kus, vanaf Saldanhabaai tot by Gansbaai. Wetenskaplikes het monsters vir toetsing versamel en waarnemers ontplooi om die omvang te bepaal. ‘n Skadelike algebloei is in Saldanhabaai opgespoor, maar geen oorsaak vir die vrektes is bevestig nie. Woordvoerder […]
# Eskom sê die onafhanklike ondersoek na moontlike onreëlmatighede met die verkryging van dieselbrandstof en bergingskontrakte sal nou eers einde Augustus voltooi wees. Daar is voorsien dat die regsontleding teen 31 Julie voltooi sou wees. Eskom se woordvoerder, Daphne Mokoena, sê verdere dokument-ontleding en -vertolking, aanvullende onderhoude en oorweging van bepaalde regsaspekte van die bestuur […]
# Die vakbondfederasie SAFTU verwerp president Cyril Ramaphosa se verdediging van Eskom se ontbondeling en sy bewering dat mededinging in elektrisiteits-opwekking pryse gaan verlaag. Hy het die eerstefase-verslag van die Eskom-herstrukturerings-taakspan aanvaar wat die plan ondersteun om Suid-Afrika se verspreidingsnetwerk ten volle onafhanklik van Eskom te maak. SAFTU se sekretaris-generaal, Zwelinzima Vavi, sê Ramaphosa se […]
# The Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment is investigating reports of dead and dying sardines along the Western Cape coast from Saldanha Bay to Gansbaai. Scientists have collected samples for testing and deployed observers to assess the scale of the fish deaths. While a harmful algal bloom has been detected in Saldanha Bay, […]
# Eskom says the independent investigation into possible irregularities in the procurement of diesel fuel and storage contracts will now only be completed by the end of August. The legal analysis was expected to be completed by July 31st. Spokesperson Daphne Mokoena says further document analysis and interpretation, supplementary interviews and consideration of identified legal […]
# Union federation SAFTU rejects president Cyril Ramaphosa’s defence of Eskom’s unbundling and his claim that introducing competition into electricity generation will lower prices. He has endorsed the first phase report from the Eskom restructuring task team, which reinforces the plan to make South Africa’s transmission network fully independent of Eskom. SAFTU’s secretary-general, Zwelinzima Vavi, […]
# Die sewe lidlande van die Organisasie van Petroleum-uitvoerlande en sy bondgenote, bekend as OPUL-plus, het ooreengekom om olieproduksie volgende maand te verhoog. Dit is weens die voortslepende ontwrigting in die Seestraat van Hormoes waardeur sowat 20-miljoen vate olie vervoer is voor die oorlog tussen Amerika en Iran uitgebreek het. Die olieproduserende groep sal die daaglikse […]
