# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has welcomed Eskom’s decision to stop its process to cut electricity to parts of Johannesburg after the city settled five-billion-rand in overdue debt. OUTA says the immediate threat of power cuts has been removed, but questions remain about how the debt was paid and whether the solution will last. […]
# Beaufort West Municipality in the Western Cape has adopted a funded budget for the first time in six years, marking progress in its financial recovery. The municipality was placed under a financial intervention in 2022 after struggling to pay its bills and staff. Since then, it has improved its audit results and qualified for […]
# Bontebok National Park in the Western Cape has reopened to the public after suffering major damage in floods in May. The floods damaged chalets, the picnic site and the main access road, with repairs expected to cost about 12-million-rand. Repairs to the remaining facilities and trails are still underway. Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment […]
# ActionSA has referred eThekwini city manager Musa Mbhele to the National Prosecuting Authority over alleged corruption linked to the Phoenix housing project. This after the Special Investigating Unit found evidence of corruption and recommended that several companies and individuals be blacklisted. ActionSA’s Alan Beesley says some of the companies continued to be used by […]
# The DA in Limpopo is calling for urgent repairs to the D447 road between Kgapane and Tzaneen, posing a danger to road users. The party states a 19-million-rand rehabilitation project was supposed to be completed by August last year, but the road remains in poor condition. The DA’s Marie Helm says parts of the […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the city’s new policing nerve centre in Goodwood will improve the response to crime. The eight-thousand-square-metre joint public safety operations centre will bring together policing resources and technology, including drones, body cameras, CCTV, number-plate cameras and artificial intelligence. Hill-Lewis added the city now has more than three-thousand-800 officers, […]
# CapeNature will introduce new fees for commercial filming at reserves across the Western Cape from the first of next month. The new tariff structure will charge productions according to their crew size, with a new category for major productions with more than 100 people. Fees will also increase for permits, base camps and environmental […]
# Die Beaufort-Wes Munisipaliteit in die Wes-Kaap het vir die eerste keer in ses jaar ‘n befondsde begroting aanvaar, wat vordering in sy finansiële herstel aandui. Die munisipaliteit is in 2022 onder finansiële ingryping geplaas nadat hy gesukkel het om sy rekeninge en personeel te betaal. Sedertdien het sy ouditresultate verbeter en gekwalifiseer vir skuldverligting […]
# Die Organisasie teen Belastingmisbruik het Eskom se besluit verwelkom om nie langer elektrisiteit na dele van Johannesburg af te sny nie, nadat die stad vyf-miljard-rand se agterstallige skuld vereffen het. OUTA sê die onmiddellike bedreiging van kragonderbrekings is verwyder, maar vrae bly voortbestaan oor hoe die skuld betaal is en of die oplossing sal […]
