# DA Emfuleni mayoral candidate Solomon Chabalala says the arrest of seven Emfuleni municipal employees accused of charging residents for unlawful electricity reconnections highlight entrenched corruption. Chabalala told Newzroom Afrika that says there is a lack of political will to fix the municipality as poor consequence management, and inadequate internal controls allows employees to collude […]
# A warrant of arrest has been issued for TV personality Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye after he failed to appear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court in Gauteng this morning. The rapper and Uyajola 9/9 host face allegations of kidnapping, assaulting an e-hailing driver and discharging a firearm during a June altercation in Edenvale. The court […]
# The DA in Ekurhuleni says 16.7-million-rand has been spent on the unfinished Klopper Park Fire Station in Germiston, seven years after construction started. DA’s Khathutshelo Rasilingwane says construction began on 20 March 2019 but the contract was terminated a year later due to poor workmanship. She says Ekurhuleni spent 13-million-rand on three service providers […]
# The Western Cape Department of Mobility says it is engaging stakeholders after taxi-related violence killed four men and wounded two others in two separate Cape Town shootings last week. On Saturday, an informal trader was shot dead at Dunoon Taxi Rank. SANTACO in the Western Cape says the motive is still to be determined. […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisie vra inligting wat kan help met die ondersoek na die moord op vier mense wie se verkoolde liggame gister in Dunoon, Kaapstad, ontdek is. Woordvoerder Novela Potelwa sê beamptes is ontbied na die N7-afrit op Malibongwe-rylaan waar hulle die liggame in ‘n oop veld langs die pad ontdek het:
# Die United Progressive People Alliance sê hy gaan 70 wykskandidate in Tshwane stel in November se plaaslike regerings-verkiesing. Die party het ‘n sespuntplan bekendgestel om die metro te herbou voor die verkiesing. Dit gee onder meer aandag aan ingewortelde en finansiële uitdagings terwyl die waardigheid van gemeenskappe terselfdertyd herstel word. Die alliansie sê hy […]
# The Office of the Chief Justice warns of a fraudster impersonating Acting Judge President Zamani Nhlangulela of the Eastern Cape Division. The judiciary said yesterday, it is aware of WhatsApp messages sent using Nhlangulela’s profile picture and a mobile number registered in his name to mislead recipients. The OCJ says misrepresenting a state of […]
# The Gauteng Health Department has received an additional 28-thousand-593 Lenacapavir initiation packs for distribution to 133 facilities. The new twice-yearly injectable drug is more than 96-percent effective at preventing HIV infection. Spokesperson Steve Mabona says the latest delivery will replenish clinics in Tshwane, Johannesburg and Sedibeng that had temporary shortages due to high demand […]
# Western Cape police are appealing for information that could assist their investigation into the murder of four people whose charred bodies were discovered metres apart in Dunoon, Cape Town, yesterday. Spokesperson Novela Potelwa says police were called out to the N7 off ramp on Malibongwe Drive where they discovered the bodies on an open […]
