# The City of Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee has greenlit plans for inner-city affordable housing and mixed-use development of a municipal parking lot at the Civic Centre in the CBD. The site is currently used as an open-air staff parking facility. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the site is strategically located within Cape Town’s CBD Foreshore precinct, […]
# The Tshwane Metro Police Department says its Public Transport Unit is continuing to conduct operations to ensure compliance. Seventeen minibuses and one e-hailing vehicle were impounded in Pretoria West this week for operating without valid operating licences. TMPD also inspected four business premises where Section 56 notices were issued for contraventions of the Business […]
# Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi says he is satisfied with the progress made in the revitalisation of hostels owned by the provincial government. He visited the revamp project of the George Goch Hostel, on the outskirts of the Johannesburg CBD. The year-on-year phased project, which cost about 120-million-rand so far, accommodates over six-thousand people. The Department […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions has condemned the brutal killing of North West anti-crime activist Thato Molosankwe. He was shot at his home in Mahikeng in the early hours of yesterday morning. Saftu’s spokesperson, Asive Dyani, says Molosankwe’s murder once again raises serious concerns about the levels of violence, lawlessness, and the […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die vakverbond Cosatu kan help in die stryd teen verkrygingskorrupsie by munisipaliteite sonder ongrondwetlike wetgewing wat dienslewering met selfs meer rompslomp kniehalter. Hy het gereageer op Cosatu se kritiek op die metro se aansoek in die Konstitusionele Hof om die Wet op Openbare Verkryging te skrap. Hill-Lewis sê […]
# Tshwane se stadsbestuurder, Johann Mettler, sê die metro het sowat 20-miljard-rand nodig om al die probleme met agterstande in die waterinfrastruktuur op te los. Hy het gister by Constitution Hill in Johannesburg voor die Suid-Afrikaanse Menseregtekommissie se ondersoekspan verskyn. Die kommissie ondersoek die waterkrisis wat Gauteng verskeie jare reeds in sy greep het. Mettler […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says union federation Cosatu can help the fight against procurement corruption in municipalities, without the need for unconstitutional legislation that will slow service delivery with even more red tape. He was responding to Cosatu’s criticism of the metro’s Constitutional Court bid to invalidate the Public Procurement Act. Hill-Lewis says […]
# Tshwane City Manager, Johann Mettler, says the metro needs about 20-billion-rand to deal with the overall water infrastructure backlogs. He appeared before the South African Human Rights Commission’s investigative inquiry at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg yesterday. The commission is probing the water crisis that has gripped Gauteng for several years. Mettler stated that rapid population […]
# Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, het die nuwe Gautengse provinsiale taakspan bekendgemaak. Die taakspan se provinsiale sameroeper is Panyaza Lesufi; sy adjunk is Mandla Nkomfe; Sochayile Khanyile is die provinsiale koördineerder met sy adjunk Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko; en die provinsiale fondsinsamelaar is Tasneem Motara. Die ANC se nasionale woordvoerder, Mahlengi Bhengu, sê die span […]
