# KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi has criticised the uMkhanyakude District Municipality’s plan to spend 15-million-rand on five specialised water tankers. According to Buthelezi, the deal is unnecessary and could worsen the municipality’s financial problems. The department’s Siboniso Mngadi says the MEC has urged the municipality to cancel the planned purchase:
# The New South Institute has launched Statecraft 2026, an international congress on democracy and public institutions. The event will take place in Johannesburg from 22 to 23 September, bringing together policymakers, public servants, academics and governance experts. Discussions will focus on strengthening public institutions, improving service delivery, ethical leadership and making democracy work better […]
# The Public Servants Association says service delivery at Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela, in Mpumalanga, is under severe pressure because of staff shortages. The union says patients are waiting up to five hours to collect files and another three to four hours at the pharmacy. The association’s Phumzile Zulu calls for urgent recruitment of […]
# Freedom Front Plus says Tshwane mayoral candidate Willie Spies has been sworn in as a councillor on the city’s council. He fills the seat left vacant by Grandi Theunissen, who recently joined the DA. The FF Plus’s Jaco Mulder says the party fully supports Spies in his new role as he prepares to contest […]
# The Freedom Front Plus has criticised the City of Tshwane for paying ten-thousand-rand to value a property in Clubview, in Pretoria, worth five-thousand-600-rand. The FF Plus’s Peter Meijer says the valuation cost almost twice the value of the land and was unnecessary because two municipal departments had already valued the property. Meijer added that […]
# The City of Johannesburg has completed a 334-million-rand climate resilience project aimed at reducing flooding and environmental damage. The programme for nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa created one-thousand-500 jobs, restored 489 hectares of land, planted more than 47-thousand trees and removed 664 tonnes of waste from the Jukskei River. The project […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Departement van Mobiliteit sê hy sal stappe doen om geweld op die Khayelitsha-Somerset-Wes openbare taxiroete te beëindig. Die departement, die Stad Kaapstad en die taxibedryf begin Maandag met bemiddeling om die konflik op te los. Meer verkeersbeamptes sal ook die betrokke gebiede patrolleer, terwyl voertuie wat bedryfsreëls oortree, geskut sal word. Muneera […]
Die regering het die moord op ‘n offisier van die Wes-Kaapse Taktiese Reaksiespan, Zamani Mzayiya, veroordeel. Mzayiya was in Knysna ontplooi om onlangse moorde te ondersoek, insluitend dié van voormalige burgemeester Aubrey Tsengwa. Die regering het belowe diegene wat verantwoordelik is, sal voor die gereg gebring word. Die adjunkwoordvoerder van die regering, William Baloyi, het […]
# Die DA sê slegs 202 openbare skole is in die afgelope 32 jaar in Gauteng gebou, wat ‘n gemiddeld van sowat ses skole per jaar is. Volgens die party is net een skool tans in aanbou, al benodig die provinsie minstens 200 meer skole om die oorbevolking aan te spreek. Sergio Isa Dos Santos […]
