# Die Nasionale Tesourie het beëindigingsbriewe aan 13 munisipaliteite uitgereik en beplan soortgelyke stappe teen nog 14 omdat hulle nie aan die voorwaardes van die munisipale skuldverligtingsprogram voldoen nie. Die skema is in 2023 ingestel om munisipaliteite te help om opgehoopte geskiedkundige skuld aan Eskom te vereffen. Die Tesourie sê die nakoming staan op slegs […]
# The National Treasury has issued termination letters to 13 municipalities and plans similar action against 14 others for failing to meet conditions of the municipal debt relief programme. The scheme was introduced in 2023 to help municipalities settle historic debt owed to Eskom. Treasury says compliance stands at just 66-percent, while municipal debt to […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie verwelkom die bekendstelling van Beats for My Peeps op SABC 1. Die televisieprogram van tien episodes fokus op verkiesingsopvoeding en vorm deel van die OVK se breër veldtog om kiesers voor te berei op demokratiese deelname in die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing van November. Die program sluit inhoudskeppers uit verskeie dele van die land […]
# Transnet has announced the completion of a four-billion-rand investment in Africa’s largest iron ore export facility, the Saldanha iron ore terminal on the West Coast. The infrastructure expansion project includes the installation of a heavy-duty tippler used to empty rail wagons. Transnet Port Terminals’ CEO Jabu Mdaki says the installation of the new tippler achieved […]
# The Electoral Commission has welcomed the premiere of Beats for My Peeps on SABC 1, a ten-episode electoral education television programme. The programme forms part of the IEC’s broader voter education and democracy participation campaign ahead of the local government elections in November. The show features content creators from across the country, sharing their […]
# Die minister van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging, Parks Tau, het positief getoets vir Covid-19 en is in self-afsondering om te herstel. Hy het verlede week in die Parlement sy departement se begroting ter tafel te lê en sy laaste oorsese reis was verlede maand toe hy die Wêreld-waterstofberaad in Nederland bygewoon het. Die departement […]
# Navorsing deur die Universiteit van die Wes-Kaap het bevind kinders wat in die baarmoeder aan sigaretrook blootgestel word, loop ʼn groter gevaar om tydens hul tienerjare hoë bloeddruk te ontwikkel. Die studie het 307 kinders van tussen 10- en 14-jaar van Bishop Lavis, Kaapstad, betrek. Daar is gekyk hoe rook en alkoholgebruik tydens swangerskap […]
# Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, has tested positive for COVID-19, prompting self-isolation to work on his recovery. He appeared in Parliament last week to deliver the department’s 2026/27 budget, and his most recent international travel was last month when he attended the World Hydrogen Summit in the Netherlands. The department encourages […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê sy aandag sal nie afgelei word deur partye wat probeer aandag trek nie en sal getrou bly aan die Grondwet en die oppergesag van die reg. Opposisiepartye het hom versoek om die Phala Phala-sage te bespreek ondanks ‘n ampsklagondersoek teen hom. Ramaphosa het gevra vir ‘n regshersiening van die onafhanklike […]
