# Western Cape Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku says several taxi ranks are calm after a violent strike this week, with services running at between 80 and 90-percent. The dispute between taxi associations CATA and CODETA centres around routes, specifically the Delft-Epping route. The provincial government has obtained an interdict against the associations. Sileku has encouraged […]
# Minstens 50 mense is reeds dood in vermoedelik politieke sluipmoorde en gewelddadige voorvalle in die aanloop tot die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing op 4 November. Die syfer is reeds hoër as die algehele aantal gevalle in beide die 2021 munisipale verkiesing en die 2024 nasionale verkiesing. Die meeste voorvalle was in KwaZulu-Natal, gevolg deur Gauteng, die Oos-Kaap, […]
# Die polisie in Noordwes het twee verdagtes in hegtenis geneem in verband met die wrede plaasaanval en roof op Syferfontein naby Ventersdorp vroeër hierdie week. Die 50-jarige boer, Donovan Marks, is Woensdag tydens die aanval geskiet en aangerand en word steeds in die hospitaal behandel. Die provinsiale polisiekommissaris, Peter Adams, sê Marks se bakkie […]
# ANC National Chairperson Gwede Mantashe has praised president Cyril Ramaphosa for leading the party’s local government election campaign from the front. He delivered the keynote address at the ANC Siyanqoba Presidential fundraising Gala Dinner in the Eastern Cape yesterday evening, ahead of the party’s final Siyanqoba rally today. Mantashe described the campaign as formidable […]
# At least 50 people have been killed in suspected political assassinations and violence in South Africa ahead of the local government elections on November fourth. This figure exceeds the full-year totals for both the 2021 municipal election and the 2024 national election. KwaZulu-Natal accounts for the highest number of attacks, followed by Gauteng, Eastern […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa vra kiesers om die ANC nog ‘n geleentheid te bied om te regeer. Hy het gister die ANC se verkiesingsbyeenkoms in Polokwane, Limpopo toegespreek. Ramaphosa het die party se prioriteite uiteengesit, insluitend werkskepping, die opknapping van water- en elektrisiteitsinfrastruktuur, en die bekamping van misdaad soos geslagsgeweld en korrupsie. Hy beklemtoon die […]
# North West police have arrested two suspects in connection with the brutal farm attack and robbery in Syferfontein, Ventersdorp, earlier this week. Fifty-year-old farmer Donovan Marks was shot and assaulted during the attack on Wednesday. He is still recovering in hospital. Provincial Police Commissioner Peter Adams says Marks’ bakkie, which was stolen by the suspects, […]
# Die EFF-leier, Julius Malema, beskryf die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing as ‘n saak van oorwinning of ondergang en sê Suid-Afrikaners sal steeds worstel teen korrupsie, onbevoegdheid en gebrekkige plaaslike regering indien sy party nie wen nie. Dit was gister die EFF se laaste verkiesingsbyeenkoms op die Orlando-stadion in Soweto. Malema beskuldig politici en kontrakteurs dat hul munisipaliteite […]
# Die DA-leier, Geordin Hill-Lewis, beskryf die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing Woensdag as ‘n tweestryd tussen sy party en die ANC. Hy het gister gepraat tydens die party se laaste verkiesingsbyeenkoms in Tshwane. ‘n Onlangse Ipsos-meningspeiling toon die DA staan tans op 25-persent teenoor die ANC op 31-persent, maar die verskil in sleutelmetro’s is aansienlik kleiner. Hill-Lewis sê […]
