# The South African National Taxi Council says it will transport the body of e-hailing driver Siyanda Mthokozisi to KwaZulu-Natal for burial. Mthokozisi was shot outside Maponya Mall in Soweto, in Gauteng, last week, in what is suspected to be linked to tensions between e-hailing drivers and taxi operators. Santaco president Abnar Tsebe extended condolences […]
# The South African Rooibos Council is engaging the US embassy and the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition to seek relief from a newly imposed 30-percent tariff on Rooibos exports. Rooibos, grown only in the Western Cape, is mostly shipped in bulk to the US for blending, packaging, and marketing, creating jobs there. The […]
# The DA has called for accountability following the collapse of the Khutso Naketsi farm in Skeerpoort, North West. The party’s Lizelle Stoltz says the once-thriving one-thousand-923-hectare farm, bought by the state in 2019 for 460-million-rand to empower 325 families, now lies in ruins. She says this is a failure of land reform as farming […]
# The Public Servants Association condemns the North West parks and tourism board over a 300-percent rent hike for staff at Taung and Mafikeng hotel schools. The union states staff have been told their rent will jump from one-thousand-300-rand to six-thousand-800-rand a month from next month, along with salary deductions for electricity, without consultation. The […]
# The DA says Sandton residents are facing a serious water shortage while the G20 route for the November summit gets special attention. According to the party, many homes and businesses remain without water, yet officials rushed to inspect parts of Sandton along the G20 route for international optics. The DA’s Leah Potgieter urges the […]
# Parliament has confirmed it will host the 11th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit at Arabella Hotel in Kleinmond in the Western Cape from 29 September to 3 October. The summit, themed ‘Harnessing Parliamentary Diplomacy for the Realisation of Global Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability,’ will also feature the P20 Women and Young Parliamentarians meetings. South Africa, […]
# The DA in Beaufort West in the Western Cape says it’s ready to restore stability and good governance in the municipality. The party will today elect a new speaker at a special council meeting after the former speaker, Jacob Jeffrey van der Linde, was removed for misconduct. The DA’s Gina Duimpies says the party […]
# Afgetrede regter van die Konstitusionele Hof, Sisi Khampepe sê die nuwe regterlike kommissie van ondersoek na beweerde inmenging in waarheid- en versoeningsake dui op ‘n hernude toewyding aan die waarheid, geregtigheid en versoening. Khampepe het by die Hector Pietersen Gedenkteken in Soweto, Gauteng, die paneel wat haar bystaan, voorgestel. Dit sluit in afgetrede regterpresident […]
# Die Nasionale Gesondheidslaboratoriumdiens het ‘n reuse plan van stapel gestuur om teen die 2025/2026-boekjaar sy toksikologie-agterstand met die helfte te verminder. Die plan sluit nuwe laboratoriumtoerusting, bykomende tegniese personeel en toegewyde verwerkingseenhede in beide Johannesburg en Pretoria in Gauteng in om die ou sake afsonderlik van nuwes te verwerk. Die woordvoerder, Mzi Gcukumana, sê […]
