# Die burgemeester van Kaapstad Geordin Hill-Lewis het aan die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, en die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, geskryf om dringend sekerheid oor befondsing vir die MyCiTi-busdiens te kry. Dit volg na die uitfasering van die Nasionale Vervoernetwerk-toelaag. MyCiTi voorsien in 42-persent van nasionale passasiervervoer op die snelvervoerdiens. Hill-Lewis sê onsekerheid […]
# Die Tshwane-metropolisiedepartement het ʼn interne ondersoek begin na bewerings dat werknemers omkoopgeld van ses ongedokumenteerde immigrante ontvang het wat onlangse tydens ʼn operasie in Winterveldt vasgetrek is. Die departement sê voorlopige bevindings dui daarop dat een-duisend-rand vrywillig vir veilige bewaring aan beamptes oorhandig is en behoorlik in amptelike polisieregisters aangeteken is. Hy sê op […]
# The Gauteng Department of Health has warned against the use of unverified and unregulated injectable substances for body enhancement and sexual performance purposes. This follows two cases in Ekurhuleni where patients suffered severe complications, including organ failure, after allegedly using unregulated products obtained through informal channels. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says both cases […]
# AfriForum eis dat die Stad Johannesburg verduidelik hoe hy die voorgestelde verhoging van 65,6-persent in huishoudings se maandelikse watertariewe regverdig. Dit beteken die heffing styg nou tot 107-rand-74-sent per huishouding per maand. Huishoudelike gebruikers betaal tans 65-rand-08-sent, ongeag of hulle vooraf of ná gebruik betaal. AfriForum-woordvoerder Marais de Vaal sê munisipale heffings moet regverdigbaar, […]
# The EFF Youth Command is calling on the Department of Basic Education to urgently investigate the sexual assault incident at Laerskool Adelaide Primary School in the Eastern Cape. Two learners were allegedly sexually assaulted by a male learner at school. The EFF Youth Command’s Phumelelani Mshumi says Education MEC, Fundile Gade, has failed to provide leadership […]
# AfriForum has requested an explanation from the City of Johannesburg on how it justified the proposed 65.6-percent increase in the monthly water demand management levy charged to households. Currently, domestic users pay 65-rand-08-cents regardless of whether they are on post-paid or prepaid. This would increase the levy to 107-rand-74-cents per household, per month. AfriForum’s […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has written to Transport minister Barbara Creecy and Finance minister Enoch Godongwana, requesting urgent funding certainty for MyCiTi bus services. This comes as the national Public Transport Network Grant is being phased out. MyCiTi accounts for 42-percent of all passenger trips on Bus Rapid Transit nationally. Hill-Lewis says uncertainty over […]
# Die voormalige president Jacob Zuma het sy regspan opdrag gegee om te appelleer teen die uitspraak van die KwaZulu-Natal Hooggeregshof in Pietermaritzburg, wat opdrag gegee het sy wapenhandel-korrupsiesaak moet voortgaan. Zuma en die Franse wapenvervaardiger Thales staar ‘n korrupsieklag van ‘n multimiljard-dollar wapentransaksie van 1999 in die gesig. Regter Nkosinathi Chilli het verklaar dis […]
# The Tshwane Metro Police Department has launched an internal investigation into allegations that its members accepted a bribe from one of six undocumented immigrants, who were arrested during a recent operation in Winterveldt. TMPD says preliminary findings show that one-thousand-rand was voluntarily handed over to officers for safekeeping and was properly recorded in official […]
