# The Public Protector’s Office says it intervened in unblocking payment of old-age grant for two Gauteng pensioners. The pensioners approached the office complaining that the South African Social Security Agency had not paid their grants since October last year. PPSA acting spokesperson, Ndili Msoki, says the complainants submitted all the documents that were required by […]
# Deputy minister of Water and Sanitation, Sello Seitlholo, has criticised the Kai !Garib Local Municipality in the Northern Cape for failing to implement remedial actions to address its poor water and sanitation services. The latest Blue and Green Drop regulatory assessments indicate that water and sanitation services within the municipality have regressed to a […]
# Die Stad Johannesburg het die besluit van die Johannesburgse aandelebeurs verwelkom om die metro se genoteerde skuldinstrumente wat vroeër opgeskort is, weer te herstel. Dit volg na die indiening van die metro se jaarverslag vir die 2024/2025-boekjaar vroeër vanjaar, wat ‘n belangrike regulatoriese vereiste nagekom het met die stad wat nou ten volle voldoen […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the City of Tshwane’s project management model needs to be reviewed to prevent tax money from being squandered in the future. Tshwane’s Strategic Asset Management Committee’s latest report reveals that 12.2-billion-rand is trapped in projects that have already been completed, are partially completed, or for which plans and payments […]
# The City of Johannesburg has welcomed the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s decision to lift the suspension of the metro’s listed debt instruments. This follows the tabling of the metro’s annual report for the 2024/2025 financial year earlier this year, fulfilling a key regulatory requirement and restoring Johannesburg’s full compliance with the JSE debt listing requirements. […]
# Die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag het bevestig dat ‘n dringende hofaansoek wat ingedien is om die uitvoering van lasbriewe vir inhegtenisneming te stop in die saak van die afpersingsbeskuldigde taxibaas, Madoda Johannes Sibanyoni, en sy medebeskuldigde, formeel teruggetrek is. Aanklaers het ‘n lasbrief van J50 vir inhegtenisneming verkry nadat hulle die saak, wat verlede maand deur […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority has confirmed that an urgent court application brought to stop the execution of arrest warrants in the case involving extortion-accused taxi boss, Madoda Johannes Sibanyoni, and his co-accused has been formally withdrawn. Prosecutors had obtained a J50 warrant of arrest after re-enrolling the case that had been struck off the […]
# Johannesburg’s Metrobus will reduce services from today as it grapples with financial pressures and rising diesel costs. In a notice to commuters, the bus operator says years of budget cuts, coupled with higher fuel prices, have forced it to scale back operations. The changes include reduced off-peak services on selected routes and fewer trips […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson has asked the National Treasury for guidance on launching an independent investigation into a controversial 70-million-rand lease agreement for a vacant building in Pretoria. A preliminary report found the Property Management Trading Entity approved the lease in 2023 despite plans to close the Department of Public Enterprises. […]
