# The Khayelitsha Development Forum has welcomed the Public Protector’s office finding that the City of Cape Town failed to provide adequate basic municipal services in parts of Khayelitsha and Langa Flats. Chairperson Mawande Jara told the SABC that residents struggles with poor sanitation, leaking water infrastructure and inadequate services. He says the findings expose […]
# Die skarebefondsingsplatform BackaBuddy het ‘n fondsinsamelingsveldtog verwyder wat van stapel gestuur is om die regskoste van die omstrede sakeman Peet Viljoen te dek. Hy staan tereg op meer as 400 aanklagte, insluitend bedrog, diefstal, korrupsie en vervalsing. ‘n Familievriend het die veldtog begin om 400-duisend-rand in te samel, maar het slegs sowat drie-duisend-500-rand ontvang […]
# Madlanga Commission chair Mbuyiseli Madlanga has approved an application for Witness M to testify behind closed doors for safety reasons. The businessman linked to a major drug seizure under investigation, says he has been followed and received threatening phone calls. His evidence is expected to expose alleged links between organised crime, drug syndicates, politically […]
# Spanning tussen Suid-Afrika en Mosambiek het na toeristegebiede oorgespoel, met sommige Suid-Afrikaanse besoekers wat voorgekeer en aangesê is om Mosambiek te verlaat. Dit volg op betogings teen onwettige immigrante in Suid-Afrika wat volgens berigte die lewens van Mosambiekse burgers geëis het. Mosambiek het sedertdien meer as 900 burgers uit Suid-Afrika gerepatrieer. Video’s op sosiale […]
# Local government budget analysis specialist Jan Hattingh says many municipalities adopt budgets that are not adequately funded, placing further strain on already fragile finances. He spoke at a news conference this morning after National Treasury announced yesterday it was withholding funds from 69 municipalities in breach of the Municipal Finance Management Act. Hatting urged […]
# National Treasury says municipalities must first agree on sustainable payment plans with creditors before withheld funds can be released. It was announced yesterday that the funding to 69 municipalities will be temporarily withheld as they were in breach of the Municipal Finance Management Act. Treasury’s Ogalaletseng Gaarekwe told a media briefing this morning the […]
# Die Regspraktykraad het ‘n nuwe aansoek in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria ingedien om die voormalige Openbare Beskermer, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, van die advokate-rol te skrap en sê sy is onwaardig om in die regsberoep aan te bly. Die aansoek volg op haar ampsklag vir wangedrag en onbevoegdheid in 2023. Die raad voer aan talle ongunstige […]
# Shell het amptelik ‘n ooreenkoms afgehandel om 100-persent van sy aandelebelang in Shell Downstream South Africa aan Abu Dhabi se staatsbeheerde energiereus, ADNOC Distribution, te verkoop teen ongeveer 16,2-miljard-rand. Die ooreenkoms sluit 580 vulstasies in, asook Shell se groothandelbrandstof-, lugvaart- en smeermiddelbedrywighede. ADNOC Distribution sal ‘n belang van 28-persent aan ‘n plaaslike swart ekonomiese […]
# Die GOOD-party sê die voormalige DA-leier Tony Leon se steunwerwing by politici namens privaat kliënte kan nie as staatskaping bestempel word nie, tensy kliënte buitengewone sukses behaal het met die verkryging van staatstenders of die bepaling van regeringsbeleid. Sy skakel- en kommunikasie-onderneming, Resolve Communications, het na bewering probeer om vergaderings tussen sy kliënte en […]
