# The Garden Route District Municipality is urging residents to report any food products they believe may be unsafe for human consumption at spaza shops, supermarkets, food outlets or other food-handling premises. National environmental health standards provide for inspections at least once every three months for high-risk food premises, once every six months for moderate-risk […]
# The City of Tshwane is urging residents to come forward and collect their outstanding title deeds and take an important step towards securing legal ownership of their homes. The metro currently holds four-thousand-792 uncollected title deeds across its seven regions. Mayoral committee member for Human Settlements, Aaron Maluleka, says this represents significant progress from […]
# AfriForum vra president Cyril Ramaphosa om die minister van Water en Sanitasie, Pemmy Majodina, af te dank. Die minister het onder skoot gekom na ʼn video waarop sy tydens ʼn gemeenskapsvergadering in Loerie in die Oos-Kaapse Kouga-munisipaliteit op ʼn gestremde inwoner vloek. Lambert de Klerk van AfriForum sê Majodina se gedrag druis in teen […]
# AfriForum is calling on president Cyril Ramaphosa to dismiss minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina. The minister is facing backlash after a video showed her swearing at a disabled resident during a community meeting in Loerie, Kouga Municipality in the Eastern Cape. AfriForum’s Lambert de Klerk says Majodina’s conduct conflicts with the code […]
# Die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste se nasionale kommissaris, Makgothi Thobakgale, het bekend gemaak dat tugoptrede teen 173 tronkbewaarders aan die gang is. Sommige word aangekla dat hulle gevangenes gehelp het om smokkelware in die tronk in te bring. Dis deel van verskerpte landwye ingryping en onlangse intelligensie-gedrewe klopjagte by tronke. Thobakgale sê ná die […]
# Department of Correctional Services National Commissioner, Makgothi Thobakgale, has revealed that around 173 prison officials are facing disciplinary processes. Some are charged with helping criminals bring contraband into prisons. This is part of an intensified nationwide crackdown and recent intelligence-led raids at correctional services facilities. Thobakgale says following the Rooigrond Maximum Correctional Centre escape, they […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says the escape of an inmate from Rooigrond Correctional Centre in North West has put challenges at correctional facilities under the spotlight. The union welcomes Edward Madiba’s rearrest, however, the incident raises concerns about ageing infrastructure, security weaknesses and staff shortages. Popcru’s Johannes Dire says correctional officers […]
# The City of Cape Town says its dam levels have dropped to 75.5-percent, compared with 92.4-percent at the same time last year. The city is stepping up water-saving measures, including fixing leaks and replacing ageing pipes, while considering water restrictions ahead of an expected hotter and drier summer. Mayoral committee member for Water and […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson says the department will publish a Request for Information next week to drive the redevelopment of Pretoria’s Telkom Towers precinct. The project is expected to cost up to 2.2-billion-rand and create more than five-thousand-300 construction jobs. Plans also include Public Works House and the Central Government Offices, […]
