# The DA says the Gauteng Health Department must take urgent disciplinary action following the Special Investigating Unit’s interim findings on corruption at the Tembisa Hospital. The report exposed three major syndicates that siphoned off over two-billion-rand, including contracts linked to president Cyril Ramaphosa’s nephew Hangwani Morgan Maumela and Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala. The party’s Jack […]
# The DA is demanding accountability after reports of abuse and overcrowding of mental health patients at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in Tshwane. DA spokesperson, Madeleine Hicklin, says patients are crammed into crumbling wards despite a completed upgrade plan submitted in 2022. Hicklin highlights severe staff shortages, poor infrastructure, and deplorable conditions. She calls […]
# The Gauteng Education Department says rising demand and budget cuts have strained funding, causing delayed payments to service providers in its Extended National School Nutrition Programme. The Department’s spokesperson Steve Mabona says the provincial extension supports vulnerable learners in fee-paying schools. He emphasised that meals remain uninterrupted, engagements with providers are ongoing, and a […]
# Die hoof van Misdaad-intelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo, het aan die Madlanga-kommissie gesê die strafregstelsel is geïnfiltreer deur ‘n magtige dwelmkartel bekend as die Groot Vyf. Volgens Khumalo is die kartel gebaseer in Gauteng met netwerke in die Wes-Kaap en KwaZulu-Natal, en word verbind aan senior politici en mense in die binnekringe van wetstoepassing. Hy het […]
# Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo has told the Madlanga commission that the criminal justice system has been infiltrated by a powerful drug cartel known as the Big Five. According to Khumalo, the cartel, based in Gauteng with networks in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, is linked to senior politicians and insiders in law enforcement. […]
# Die hoof van Misdaadintelligensie, Dumisani Khumalo, sê die afdeling het ernstige ontwrigting ervaar tydens Richard Mdluli se termyn as hoof. Khumalo het in Pretora voor die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek gesê tussen 2011 en 2012 is hulpbronne by Misdaadintelligensie misbruik terwyl gebrekkige operasionele metodes aangewend is. Hy sê pogings deur waarnemende bestuur om die probleme […]
# Die minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, het skok uitgespreek nadat die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid twee-miljard-rand se plundering by die Tembisa-hospitaal in Gauteng ontbloot het. Die ondersoek is in 2021 van stapel gestuur na die sluipmoord op die verklikker Babita Deokaran. Dit toon dat minstens drie gekoördineerde sindikate agter die korrupsie sit. Motsoaledi het met die […]
# Die GOOD-party verwelkom sy nasionale voorsitter, Matthew Cook, as die voorsitter van Johannesburg se artikel 79-komitee oor Finansiële Toesig. Sekretaris-generaal Brett Herron sê Cook se aanstelling is die sleutel tot die herstel van aanspreeklikheid en deursigtigheid vir die stad se finansies. Cook belowe om verkwistende uitgawes, ondoeltreffendheid en swak toesig aan te pak, en […]
# Die Tafelberg Nasionale Park het grondspanne ontplooi om ‘n weghol-veldbrand naby die Pyproete in Kampsbaai te bestry. Die woordvoerder van Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Parke, JP Louw, sê nagenoeg 50 brandbestryders van SANParke, die Stad Kaapstad se Brand en Reddingsdienste, vrywilligers, en Working on Fire is op die toneel. ‘n Helikopter uit George is op pad […]
