# The United Progressive People Alliance has condemned the City of Tshwane’s decision to deploy Metro Police while electricity cut-offs are being carried out in Gomora Informal Settlement. Illegal electricity connections were removed last week, which sparked the protest. Residents demanding electricity blocked the roads with burning tyres and threw stones at the police. UPPA […]
# Gauteng se Departement van Menslike Nedersettings sê die komende plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing gaan hom nie keer om uitsettingsbevele toe te pas teen mense wat HOP-huise of grond beset nie. Die departement is tans besig met ʼn uitsettingsproses teen onwettige besetters wat grond en twee geboue in Soshanguve Uitbreiding 19, asook projekte by Soshanguve BB, GG en […]
# Western Cape Education MEC Jaco Londt says learner transport services will resume today, after constructive talks with the South African National Small Bus Operators Council. SANSBOC suspended operations yesterday, the first day of the fourth school term, leaving 21-thousand-934 learners stranded. It cited the absence of a meaningful response from the department regarding the urgent […]
# The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements says it will not be deterred by the upcoming local government election from enforcing eviction orders against those who have invaded RDP houses or land. The department is currently pursuing eviction proceedings against illegal occupants who have invaded land and two building projects at Soshanguve Extension 19, as […]
# Die polisie in Noordwes het gister drie Suid-Afrikaners en ʼn Zimbabwiër in hegtenis geneem na die ontdekking van ʼn multimiljoen-rand Mandrax-vervaardigingslaboratorium op ʼn kleinhoewe by Hartbeespoort-dam. Die polisie het inligting ontvang oor moontlik onwettige aktiwiteite op die perseel. Die provinsiale polisiekommissaris, Arthur Adams, sê toe hulle op die perseel aankom, het Brits se misdaadintelligensie […]
# Die Sentrum vir Ontwikkeling en Onderneming sê die agteruitgang van die Stad Johannesburg is nie slegs die gevolg van swak bestuur of munisipale onbevoegdheid nie. In sy jongste verslag, getiteld ‘Time for Action – Corruption in Joburg‘, wys die sentrum op ‘n gevestigde netwerk van politieke, sake- en misdaadbelange wat met die plaaslike regering […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus vra president Cyril Ramaphosa om die werklikheid van plaasmoorde in die land te erken en te veroordeel. Dit volg op die moord op die 55-jarige Hannetjie van Zyl, wat oor die kop geslaan is terwyl sy besig was om ‘n hek op haar plaas, Doornpan, in Noordwes oop te maak. Sy […]
# North West police have arrested three South Africans and a Zimbabwean national following the discovery of a multimillion-rand Mandrax manufacturing laboratory at a plot in the Hartbeespoort Dam area yesterday. Police received information regarding suspected illegal activities at the property. Provincial Police Commissioner Arthur Adams says upon arrival at the identified address, Brits Crime […]
# The Centre for Development and Enterprise says the decline of the City of Johannesburg is not only a result of weak administration or municipal incompetence. In its latest report titled ‘Time for Action – Corruption in Joburg’, the centre notes an entrenched network of political, business, and criminal interests that have intersected local government, […]
