# A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the murders of two Anti-Gang Unit officers and two women in Reiger Park, Johannesburg, earlier this month. The 27-year-old suspect was apprehended in Ekurhuleni following an intelligence-driven operation. Two other suspects in the matter, alleged gangster Regan Collis and 24-year-old Jamal Meyer, remain in custody. […]
# Discovery CEO Adrian Gore says South Africa must achieve economic growth of at least three-percent to create jobs and reduce unemployment. Speaking at the launch of phase three of the government-business partnership in Johannesburg, Gore said progress has been made in ending load-shedding, improving logistics and restoring investor confidence, but growth remains too slow. […]
# The DA has urged Parliament to hold Eskom and regulators accountable over pollution at the Kusile power station in Mpumalanga. According to the party, a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment found that pollution limits were breached and enforcement was weak. The DA’s Kevin Mileham wants an urgent joint parliamentary hearing to establish whether the […]
# Union federation Cosatu, Solidarity, the Canning Fruit Producers’ Association, together with fruit producers, are calling on Premier Foods to keep its Tulbagh fruit canning factory in the Western Cape open. Cosatu’s Malvern de Bruyn says the closure would affect 424 factory workers, hundreds of fruit producers and thousands of other people whose livelihoods depend […]
# Die uitvoerende hoof van Discovery, Adrian Gore, sê Suid-Afrika moet ekonomiese groei van minstens drie-persent behaal om werk te skep en werkloosheid te verminder. Gore het tydens die bekendstelling van fase drie van die vennootsksp tussen die regering en nywerhede in Johannesburg gesê vordering is gemaak met die beëindiging van beurtkrag, die verbetering van […]
# Die DA het die Parlement versoek om Eskom en reguleerders aanspreeklik te hou vir besoedeling by die Kusile-kragstasie in Mpumalanga. Volgens die party het ‘n uitspraak deur die Appèlhof bevind besoedelingsperke is oortree en die afdwinging was swak. Kevin Mileham van die DA wil ‘n dringende gesamentlike parlementêre verhoor hê om vas te stel […]
Die vakbondfederasie Cosatu, Solidariteit, die Inmaakvrugteprodusentevereniging, en ander vrugteprodusente, doen ‘n beroep op Premier Foods om nie sy Tulbagh-vrugte-inmaakfabriek in die Wes-Kaap te sluit nie. Malvern de Bruyn van Cosatu sê die sluiting sal 424 fabriekswerkers, honderde vrugteprodusente en duisende ander mense raak wie se lewensbestaan van die fasiliteit afhang:
# Die adjunkminister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, lei tans die bekendstelling van Higher Health se eerste veilige ruimte op die Springs-kampus van Ekurhuleni-Oos se TVET College. Die inisiatief, wat deur die organisasie sonder winsbejag, Higher Health, bestuur word, bied studente ‘n veilige, toeganklike ruimte vir geestesgesondheidsondersteuning, geslagsgeweld, MIV-dienste, diskriminasiekwessies en ander sielkundig-maatskaplike […]
# Die omstrede sakeman Stuart James Scharnick is buite die Madlanga-kommissie in Pretoria in hegtenis geneem na ‘n beweerde intimidasiekonfrontasie met ‘n joernalis van die Sowetan, Herman Moloi. Scharnick, ‘n medewerker van die geskorste polisie-adjunkkommissaris Shadrack Sibiya, is volgens berigte tydens die voorval afgeneem. Scharnick het die verrigtinge bygewoon waar die leier van die National […]
