# Die hoofinspekteur van die Gautengse verkeerspolisie, Samuel Mashaba, sê verkeersbeamptes en polisiebeamptes dien albei die staat, maar met verskillende verantwoordelikhede. Hy het voor die Madlanga-kommissie in Pretoria getuig oor die groot dwelmklopjag in 2021 in Aeroton, suid van Johannesburg, waartydens meer as 700 kilogram kokaïen gekonfiskeer is. Mashaba sê daar was niks onbehoorliks aan […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the Eastern Cape is facing serious financial and management problems. The party says irregular spending has increased from about 21-billion-rand to 31-billion-rand in two-years. The FF Plus’s Bill Harington blames poor leadership and weak financial control for poor services and rising costs. Harington says […]
# The Border Management Authority says nine Bangladeshi nationals have been intercepted at OR Tambo International Airport in Gauteng after they attempted to enter South Africa using fraudulent travel documents. The group was found with fake South African visas and Indian passports during immigration processing yesterday and has since been sent back to Bangladesh. The […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus sê die Nelson Mandelabaai-munisipaliteit in die Oos-Kaap het ernstige finansiële en bestuursprobleme. Die party sê onreëlmatige besteding het in twee jaar van ongeveer 21-miljard rand tot 31-miljard rand toegeneem. Bill Harington van die VF Plus blameer onbekwame leierskap en swak finansiële beheer vir swak dienste en stygende koste. Harington sê inwoners […]
# The Motor Industry Staff Association says a ruling by the Motor Industry Bargaining Council Dispute Resolution Centre confirms that workers cannot be dismissed for telling the truth during disciplinary hearings. The case involved a service advisor at Mossel Bay Ford in the Western Cape, dismissed after giving evidence in a workplace dispute. MISA’s Phakamile […]
# Gauteng traffic police chief inspector Samuel Mashaba says traffic officers and police officers both serve the state but have different responsibilities. He was testifying before the Madlanga commission in Pretoria into a major 2021 drug bust in Aeroton, south of Johannesburg, where more than 700 kilograms of cocaine were seized. Mashaba says there was […]
# Environmental groups have secured a legal win in their challenge to the environmental authorisation for the proposed four-thousand megawatts nuclear-one project at Duynefontein near Koeberg. The High Court in the Western Cape has ordered the government to provide key information within ten days. Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute’s Ntombizodidi Mapapu argues the project […]
# Die Madlanga-kommissie het die getuienis van die sakeman Tumelo Nku tot 18 Junie uitgestel weens ‘n sterfte in sy familie. Nku sal na verwagting getuig oor die Aeroton-kokaïen-inbraak in 2021, waarin 751 kilogram kokaïen ter waarde van ‘n geraamde 300-miljoen-rand gekonfiskeer is. Die kommissie het bewerings aangehoor dat Nku as ‘n polisie-informant sonder behoorlike […]
# Die Landdroshof in Musina het ‘n vragmotorbestuurder tot 20 jaar tronkstraf gevonnis vir ‘n poging om plofstof ter waarde van een-miljoen-rand deur die Beitbrug-grenspos na Suid-Afrika te smokkel. Edgar Maroto is in April in hegtenis geneem nadat owerhede duisende ontploffingspatrone, plofstoftoestelle en lontrolle in sy besit ontdek het. Die 42-jarige is tot 15 jaar […]
