# The City of Cape Town says political parties may now display election posters and swivel banners, with 11 weeks to the local government election. Rules allow one party poster and one event poster per streetlight pole, mounted on a board and not larger than 0.9- by 0.6 metres. Swivel banners are only permitted on […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse premier, Alan Winde, en die LUR vir Polisietoesig en Gemeenskapsveiligheid, Anroux Marais, het die Prokureurs in Polisiestasies-projek formeel van stapel gestuur. Dis ‘n vennootskap met die polisie en ‘n internasionale organisasie teen Transnasionale Georganiseerde Misdaad. Regslui sal by polisiestasies ontplooi word om geregsdienaars te help met onder meer die voorbereiding van dossiere, […]
# The human ancestral remains of 84 Namibians including two former political prisoners held on Robben Island will be repatriated to Namibia today. The two political prisoners, Simon Petrus Niilenge and Festus Nehale, passed away in exile and were buried in Cape Town’s Gugulethu and Maitland cemeteries. The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, in […]
# Die Johannesburgse Metropolisie het dit duidelik gemaak dat ‘n verdagte wat gister in Lenasia-Suid in hegtenis geneem is, nie verbin kan word met die onlangse dodelike bendeverwante skietvoorvalle in Westbury nie. Woordvoerder Xolani Figla sê die regstelling volg op verdere ondersoeke wat getoon het dit was aanvanklik ‘n geval van identiteits-verwarring. Hy sê die […]
# Die United Progressive People Alliance dring aan op ‘n onafhanklike en omvattende ondersoek na bewerings teen Tshwane se burgemeester, Nasiphi Moya. Daar word beweer dat ‘n maatskappy wat met die metro sake gedoen het, bouwerk gedoen het by haar privaat woning. Moya het die bewerings ontken. Abel Tau van die alliansie sê dis ernstige […]
# The Department of Home Affairs says the “At-Home” vision continues to expand as they prepare to officially open a new Home Affairs office at the Cape Town Civic Centre soon. The facility brings services closer to residents, in line with the department’s Home Affairs “at Home” vision. The Department says the centrally located office […]
# Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo is inviting families to a reunion at the Johannesburg Zoo this Saturday, 22 August. Entrance will be just 22-rand per person as part of the “22-rand on the 22nd” special, marking the zoo’s 122nd anniversary. The zoo first opened in 1904. JCPZ says the discounted fee makes a family […]
# The DA has warned that patients seeking emergency treatment at Helen Joseph Tertiary Hospital are at risk after being advised to seek care elsewhere. A warning issued by the hospital’s Trauma Unit Head Patricia Saffy, stated that the emergency department remains closed throughout August after staff were reportedly not paid, resulting in doctors absenteeism. […]
# The independent non-profit public policy and advocacy organisation Centre for Development and Enterprise, says Johannesburg’s worsening financial, infrastructure and governance crises threaten South Africa’s economic growth. Its report says the city owes creditors 25.2-billion-rand, while infrastructure backlogs run into tens of billions of rand. Johannesburg recorded a 35.9-percent unemployment rate in the second quarter, […]
