# The City of Johannesburg has set up water quality task teams to help reduce waste and sewer spillages in its rivers and catchment areas. The city says the teams will improve coordination between departments and speed up repairs in problem areas. Work is already underway in places like Bruma, Kaalspruit and Diepsloot, where ageing […]
# The DA in Gauteng says more than three-thousand surgeries have been cancelled at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital since January last year. According to the party, one in four scheduled operations were called off, leaving patients facing long delays and growing backlogs. The DA’s Jack Bloom says Orthopaedics has the biggest backlog, with more […]
# The DA in the Western Cape urges communities to remain vigilant and report criminal activity at schools. This follows a rise in vandalism and theft at schools across the province, including a recent break-in at Sir Lowry’s Pass Primary School, which caused about 72-thousand-rand in damage and resulted in equipment being stolen. The DA’s […]
# University of Cape Town’s academics support the National Treasury’s plan to introduce a 20-percent tax on online betting to help reduce gambling and its social harms. According to researchers, gambling has grown rapidly in South Africa, with people wagering about 1.5-trillion-rand in the 2024/2025 financial year. They warn that gambling is increasingly linked to […]
# Die Nasionale Kunstefees het sy musiekprogram vir 2026 bekend gemaak, met twee naweke van Afro-pop, gospel, jazz en pan-Afrikaanse optredes op die spyskaart in Makhanda in die Oos-Kaap. Die fees vind van 25 Junie tot 5 Julie plaas en sal kunstenaars soos Nomfundo Moh, Nontokozo Mkhize, Msaki, die Soweto Strykkwartet, asook Standard Bank se […]
# Die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap het sy ondersteuning beloof vir ‘n nagraadse student, Hajar Kagiso Al-Tha’irah Ahjum-Mathee, wat deel was van die Global Sumud Flotilla wat humanitêre hulp aan Gaza wou lewer. Die vaartuig is vroeër vandeesweek deur Israeliese magte in die Middellandse See onderskep. Hajar, wat ‘n meestersgraad in mediese biowetenskap volg en […]
# Die Stad Johannesburg het watergehalte-taakspanne aangestel om afval- en rioolstortings in sy riviere en opvangsgebiede te verminder. Die stad sê die spanne sal samewerking tussen departemente verbeter en herstelwerk in probleemgebiede versnel. Daar word reeds gewerk in plekke soos Bruma, Kaalspruit en Diepsloot, waar verouderende infrastruktuur en stormskade herhaalde rioollekkasies veroorsaak. Die munisipaliteit beoog […]
# Akademici aan die Universiteit van Kaapstad ondersteun die Nasionale Tesourie se plan om ‘n belasting van 20-persent op aanlyn weddenskappe in te stel om dobbelary en die sosiale skade daarvan te verminder. Volgens navorsers het dobbelary baie vinnig in Suid-Afrika toegeneem, met ongeveer 1,5-duisend-miljard-rand wat in die 2024/2025-boekjaar gewed is. Hulle waarsku dobbelary word […]
# Die DA in die Wes-Kaap doen ‘n beroep op gemeenskappe om waaksaam te bly en misdadigheid by skole aan te meld. Dit volg na ‘n toename in vandalisme en diefstal by skole regoor die provinsie, insluitend ‘n onlangse inbraak by Sir Lowry’s Pass Laerskool, waar die diefstal van toerusting en ander skade van nagenoeg […]
