# Die African Independent Congress het die speaker van die Johannesburgse stadsraad, Margaret Arnolds, as sy burgemeesterskandidaat vir die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing aangekondig. Arnolds was voorheen ‘n lid van die burgemeesterskomitee vir Gemeenskapsontwikkeling en Finansies en dien tans as Speaker. Die party sê haar verkiesingsveldtog sal op dienslewering, aanspreeklikheid, infrastruktuur en plaaslike ekonomiese ontwikkeling fokus:
# The African Independent Congress has announced Johannesburg Council Speaker Margaret Arnolds as its mayoral candidate for the 4 November local government elections. Arnolds has previously served as mayoral committee member for Community Development and Finance and currently serves as Speaker. The AIC says her campaign will focus on service delivery, accountability, infrastructure and local […]
# Die voormalige minister van Verdediging, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, hou vol ’n pruik wat in WhatsApp-gesprekke met die militêre kontrakteur Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndlovu bespreek is, was werklik ‘n pruik en nie ’n kode-woord vir geld nie. Sy is in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria gevra hoekom sy herhaaldelik daarna verwys het. Mapisa-Nqakula, wat deur ’n tolk getuig, erken […]
# Former Defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula maintains that a wig mentioned in WhatsApp exchanges with military contractor Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndlovu was a genuine gift and not a coded reference to money. She was questioned in the High Court in Pretoria about why she repeatedly referred to the wig in messages with the contractor. Testifying via an […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die Konstitusionele Hof se uitspraak wat die Wet op Openbare Verkryging ongeldig verklaar, beskerm plaaslike en provinsiale regerings se reg om hul eie verkrygingsbesluite te neem. Die munisipaliteit het die wetgewing in die hof betwis op grond dat dit onwettig aanvaar en sonder voldoende openbare deelname deurgevoer is. […]
# Tourism minister Patricia de Lille has officially inaugurated South Africa’s first Club Med Beach and Safari Resort in KwaZulu-Natal, on behalf of president Cyril Ramaphosa. The development represents more than two-billion-rand in investment, created 600 permanent direct jobs, one-thousand-500 indirect jobs supported and more than two-thousand-300 jobs were created during construction. She says the […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the Constitutional Court ruling invalidating the Public Procurement Act, protects local and provincial governments’ right to make their own procurement decisions. This follows the municipality’s challenge to the legislation, arguing the law was passed unlawfully, without enough public input. The court also ordered the opposing respondents to pay […]
# Die waarnemende Gautengse polisiekommissaris, Fred Kekana, versoek die publiek om die polisie toe te laat om hul ondersoek uit te voer ná die ontdekking van ‘n negende vrou se liggaam in Ekurhuleni. Sy is sowat 30-jaar-oud en is met steekwonde en gedeeltelik geklee aangetref. Sy is nog nie uitgeken nie. Forensiese ondersoeke word gedoen […]
# Acting Gauteng police commissioner Fred Kekana has urged the public to allow police to conduct their investigation following the discovery of a ninth woman’s body in Ekurhuleni. The woman, believed to be about 30, had stab wounds and was partially clothed. She remains unidentified. Forensic investigations are underway to establish the cause of death. […]
