# Die adjunkpresident van die Patriotic Alliance, Kenny Kunene, sê die party sal met ander politieke partye saamwerk om Johannesburg te bestuur ná die plaaslike verkiesing op 4 November. Kunene het aan die SABC gesê sy ervaring as lid van die Burgemeesterskomitee vir Vervoer het hom insig gegee in die uitdagings rondom dienslewering. Hy sê […]
# Die DA kritiseer die voortdurende kragonderbrekings in Johannesburg en sê inwoners dra die gevolge van infrastruktuur wat misluk. Woordvoerder Nico de Jager sê dele van Lombardy-oos, Rembrandt-park, Alexandra en omliggende gebiede is al ‘n week sonder krag nadat twee transformators beskadig is. Hy skryf dit toe aan verouderde infrastruktuur, ontoereikende instandhouding en opsetlike beskadiging. […]
# According to a University of Cape Town’s new study, South Africans spend a staggering 500-billion-rand a year on celebrations. The study indicated that some people spend up to one-million-rand on weddings and 140-thousand-rand on tombstone unveilings. It also shows that nine-thousand weddings were held across the country over 32 days, with Gauteng recording the […]
# Die Nasionale Raad van Dierebeskermingsverenigings gaan ‘n klagte van dieremishandeling teen polisiebeamptes indien oor wat met die polisiehond Sky gebeur het. Die vyfjarige Belgiese Malinois is verlede maand ernstig beseer in ‘n polisie-veeartsenygerief in Roodeplaat, Pretoria, en moes later uitgesit word. Volgens die raad het Sky maande lank erge spanning en herhaalde beserings verduur, […]
# Die Departement van Vervoer en Gemeenskapsveiligheid in Limpopo het bevestig die R524 naby Louis Trichardt is heropen ná ‘n ernstige botsing waarin vyf mense dood is. Vyf voertuie, insluitend ‘n polisievoertuig, was betrokke. Twee beseerdes, een in ‘n bedenklike toestand en een ernstig beseer, is hospitaal toe geneem. Ondersoeke duur voort. Die LUR Nakedi […]
# Die African Transformation Movement vra ‘n ondersoek na beweerde gevalle waar werk in ruil vir stemme aangebied is in die Buffalo City-metro in die Oos-Kaap. Woordvoerder Zama Ntshona sê vrywilligers is meegedeel hulle sou poste in die Uitgebreide Openbare Werksprogram kry indien hulle hul ATM-T-hemde vir ANC-T-hemde verruil. Hy sê hulle gaan die speaker […]
# The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is set to lay animal cruelty charges against police officials following the death of police dog Sky. The five-year-old Belgian Malinois was found badly injured at a police veterinary facility in Roodeplaat, in Pretoria, last month and was later put down. The […]
# Limpopo Transport and Community Safety has confirmed that the R524 road near Louis Trichardt has reopened following a head-on collision that killed five people. Five vehicles, including a SAPS vehicle, were involved. Two people who were injured, one critically and another seriously, were taken to hospital. Investigations continue. MEC Nakedi Kekana’s spokesperson, Dali Tshifhiwa, […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Ankole cattle have fetched record prices at an auction at his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo. A three-year-old pregnant heifer, Queen Arusha, sold for a record 6.4-million-rand, making it the most expensive female animal ever sold in South Africa. Two straws of semen from Ramaphosa-owned bull Optimus Prime also fetched a […]
