# Independent columnist and researcher, Lehumo Sejaphala, says South Africa must confront the deeper causes of gender-based violence and femicide, following the discovery of nine women’s bodies in and around Ekurhuleni. Sejaphala says tougher punishment alone will not end violence. He points to childhood trauma, harmful ideas about masculinity, poverty, unemployment and unequal gender attitudes […]
# Businessman Hangwani Maumela, who is at the centre of a wider investigation into alleged corruption at Tembisa Hospital in Gauteng, is challenging a 1.9-billion-rand tax bill. The South African Revenue Service is seeking the money from Maumela and trustees of the MHR Family Trust. The Special Investigating Unit has previously linked his family trust […]
# Human Settlements minister Thembi Simelane says government is expanding housing opportunities for South Africans unable to secure traditional home loans. Speaking at the National Housing Finance Corporation’s 30th anniversary summit in Boksburg, Simelane says ten-billion-rand has been mobilised from the private sector, assisting more than 800-thousand households over five-years. She says government is considering […]
# The United Democratic Movement will approach the Electoral Court over the omission of its ward councillor candidates in the Buffalo City Metro in the Eastern Cape. Deputy president Nqabayomzi Kwankwa says court papers will be filed next week, challenging the Electoral Commission’s decision as some of its candidates are missing from the final lists. […]
# Die vakverbond COSATU in Gauteng veroordeel die onlangse moorde op vroue in Ekurhuleni ten sterkste en sê mans moet ‘n daadwerklike rol speel om die geweld te bekamp. Die liggame van nege vroue is die afgelope twee maande op verskeie plekke aan die Oos-rand aangetref, insluitend Kemptonpark, Olifantsfontein en KwaThema in Springs. Provinsiale voorsitter […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die hernoemde Tutu-gedenkpark in Milnerton is nog ʼn manier waarop die metro wyle aartsbiskop Desmond Tutu en sy vrou, Leah, vereer. Die Lupin-singel-park waar Tutu en sy vrou dekades lank gewoon het, word verander in ʼn kindervriendelike ontspanningsgebied met ʼn hondepark, blomtuin en buitelug-amfiteater. Hill-Lewis sê die park […]
# Die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Dina Pule, en die Oos-Kaapse LUR vir Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Bukiwe Fanta, is ontsteld oor die dood van ʼn 16-jarige leerder van die Kuyasa Senior Secondary School in Dimbaza wat deur ʼn medeleerder doodgesteek is. Die departement se woordvoerder, Sandy Godlwana, sê hierdie tragiese voorval plaas klem op die behoefte […]
# Kaapstad se wetstoepassings-hulpdiens het die afgelope jaar meer as 76-duisend ure patrollie gedoen om voltydse wetstoepassers te ondersteun. Die vrywilligerdiens wat reeds 13 jaar bedrywig is, het byna 380 aktiewe lede. Hulp-beamptes moet jaarliks minstens 192 ure diens lewer. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Veiligheid en Sekerheid, JP Smith, sê beamptes het in die 2025/26-boekjaar gemiddeld […]
# Die Security Personnel Party of South Africa gaan ʼn klagte by die Verkiesingskommissie indien oor die misbruik van staatshulpbronne vir party-politieke doeleindes. Die party beweer die ANC in Tshwane is van plan om metro-hulpbronne in Wyk 93 te gebruik in sy veldtog vir November se munisipale verkiesing. Woordvoerder Dimakatso Modipa sê munisipale hulpbronne behoort […]
