# The Western Cape Department of Infrastructure says the upgrade of a 4.7-kilometre stretch of Baden Powell Drive near Stellenbosch, to a dual carriageway between the N2 and Annandale Road at Lynedoch, has been completed. The project created 264 short-term work opportunities. MEC Tertuis Simmers says 117-million-rand was spent on procuring goods and services from […]
# Die Metropolisie in Tshwane het gister 25 onwettige immigrante in Nellmapius, Pretoria-Oos, Bronkhorstspruit en Ezithobeni in hegtenis geneem. Dit was deel van die verskerpte optrede teen onwettige immigrante en verwante misdade. Twaalf is in hegtenis geneem vir aanwesigheid in die land sonder die nodige dokumente en 13 vir die oortreding van die Immigrasiewet. Die […]
# Twee studente van die Noordwes-universiteit was naaswenners by die Suid-Afrikaanse Instituut vir Industriële Ingenieurswese-studentekompetisie. Die span bekend as AndyX, bestaande uit finalejaar-industriële ingenieurstudente Andile Madlala en Xayaan Maasdorp, het ‘n driewiel vir gesondheidsorg met ‘n geslote kajuit ontwerp om toegang tot mediese sorg in landelike Suid-Afrika te verbeter. Die twee sê die prestasie het […]
# ActionSA in Mpumalanga is bekommerd oor die Ouditeur-Generaal se bevindinge oor die Departement van Kultuur, Sport en Ontspanning ingevolge die Wet op Openbare Finansiële Bestuur vir 2024/2025. Die Ouditeur-Generaal se verslag het aan die lig gebring die departement het teruggeval na ‘n gekwalifiseerde ouditmening en die verslag het ook ernstige finansiële wanbestuur en mislukkings […]
# The National Prosecuting Authority has welcomed the life imprisonment sentence handed down to a pastor from Jesus Is the Answer Ministries in Mamelodi East, Pretoria. The 41-year-old was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl. NPA spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana says the presiding Magistrate, Lynn Pillay, agreed with the state that […]
# The GOOD Party says it has applied to join the South African Property Owners Association’s litigation, to have elements of the City of Cape Town’s new tariff regime declared unconstitutional. The association is challenging the metro’s cleaning tariff, the amended basic water charge, and the basic sanitation charge. GOOD’s secretary-general, Brett Herron, says according to […]
# Two students from the North-West University were first runner-up at the South African Institute for Industrial Engineering Student Competition. The team known as AndyX, consisting of final-year industrial engineering students Andile Madlala and Xayaan Maasdorp, designed a mobile healthcare tricycle with an enclosed cabin to improve access to medical care in rural South Africa. The […]
# Tshwane Metro Police arrested 25 illegal immigrants in Nellmapius, Pretoria East, Bronkhorstspruit and Ezithobeni yesterday. This was part of intensified operations aimed at curbing illegal immigration and related crimes. Twelve were arrested for being in the country without the required documentation, while 13 were apprehended for contravening the Immigration Act. TMPD spokesperson Isaac Mahamba says […]
# Die Parlementêre ad hoc-komitee hoor vandag getuienis van ‘n nuwe getuie, die Nasionale Polisiekommissaris, Fannie Masemola, aan. Die komitee ondersoek aantygings van die kommissaris van Polisie van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, wat Woensdag getuig het. In sy getuienis voor die Madlanga-kommissie, het Masemola die geskorste minister van Polisie, Senzo Mchunu, beskuldig van oortreding van artikel […]
