# Parliament’s select committee on Security and Justice is calling for rigorous internal reforms within the South African Police Service. The committee has concluded its review of the police’s 2025/2026 annual report, expressing concern over the persistent audit findings raised by the Auditor-General. Material findings on reported performance information increased by 35.71-percent, from 14 findings […]
# The European Union’s new ambassador to South Africa, Kristian Schmidt, says the relationship with the country could be leveraged to bolster domestic mineral processing. The EU remains the country’s largest source of foreign direct investment, with two-way trade totalling 851.71-billion-rand last year. Schmidt also sees significant potential for cooperation in other areas linked to […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Social Development has welcomed the allocation of 3.8-billion-rand over the 2027 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework to recruit three-thousand-552 social workers. This is to strengthen the country’s response to gender-based violence and femicide. Committee chairperson Bridget Masango emphasised the importance of strengthening social work services to prevent violence, support vulnerable individuals and […]
# Real Reform for ECD het die regering gevra om befondsing vir vroeëkinderjare-ontwikkeling te verhoog en sê onderbelegging is ʼn keuse met rampspoedige gevolge vir kinders. Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het in die Mini-begroting fondse toegeken vir moeder- en kindvoeding en bykomende maatskaplike werkers. Claire Rankin van die organisasie het die ekonomiese voordele […]
# Die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, ontken opposisiepartye se bewering dat die tydelike brandstofheffing-verligting wat hy in die Mini-begroting aangekondig het, blote politiekery is. Die heffing word van 4 November tot 1 Desember met drie-rand per liter vir diesel en een-rand-50-sent vir petrol verlaag en beteken verligting van tien-miljard-rand. Godongwana sê dis toevallig dat […]
# Die Padvragvereniging sê die brandstofheffing-verligting is welkom, maar Suid-Afrika se padvragsektor moet gereedmaak vir voortgesette prysdruk terwyl die oorlog in die Midde-Ooste voortduur. Die heffing word van 4 November tot 1 Desember met drie-rand per liter vir diesel en een-rand-50-sent vir petrol verlaag. Die vereniging se uitvoerende hoof, Gavin Kelly, sê die belangrike vraag […]
# Die minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Dina Pule, verwelkom die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, se verbintenis in die Mini-begroting oor geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord, asook die versterking van maatskaplike beskerming. Die regering gaan 3,8-miljard-rand bestee om meer as drie-duisend-500 maatskaplike werkers te werf om die stryd teen geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord te versterk. Maatskaplike toelaes sal […]
# Real Reform for ECD has called on the government to increase funding for early childhood development, saying under-investment in early childhood is a choice, one with disastrous consequences for children. In the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement, minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana allocated funding for maternal and child nutrition and additional social workers. The organisation’s […]
# Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has denied claims by opposition parties that the temporary fuel levy relief he announced in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement is electioneering, just two weeks before next month’s local government elections. The ten-billion-rand relief will see the fuel levy reduced by three-rand a litre on diesel and one-rand-50-cents on petrol from […]
