# Suid-Afrika se verbruikersinflasiekoers het verlede maand tot vyf persent gestyg teenoor 4,5 persent in Mei – die hoogste sedert Junie 2024 toe dit op 5,1 persent gestaan het. Statistiek Suid-Afrika sê vervoer, behuising en nutsdienste was die hoofbydraers tot die toename. Die hoër inflasiekoers weerspieël stygende kostes waarmee huishoudings en sake-ondernemings te kampe het. […]
# Build One South Africa welcomed Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s decision to convene a meeting to consider the removal of the Public Investment Corporation board. BOSA leader Mmusi Maimane says the move acknowledges deep governance failures at the institution. The party’s Graham Charters calls for an independent interim board, a forensic investigation, public disclosure of findings […]
# Former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of corruption and one count of money laundering in the High Court in Pretoria at the start of her trial. The charges relate to alleged solicitation of 4.5-million-rand bribes from a contractor linked to Defence Force contracts during her tenure as Defence […]
# The Public Servants Association welcomes the arrest of several suspects, including senior law enforcement officials, in connection with a 15-million-rand precious stones heist. The union’s Claude Naicker says the breakthrough highlights the Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s role in combating corruption. Naicker called on IPID to be granted constitutional independence and urged the National Treasury […]
# Free State Judge President Cagney Musi says granting sick leave to a judge is a standard workplace administrative right. He was testifying before the Judicial Conduct Tribunal in Johannesburg, investigating whether Judge Lepono Joshua Lekale was medically fit to remain on the bench. The tribunal is the first of its kind to examine a […]
# ‘n Brit wat beskuldig word van die moord op sy vrou en twee dogters in Brittanje, het sy borgtogaansoek laat vaar in die Johannesburgse Landdroshof. Die staat sê Ndodana Tshuma is ‘n onwettige voortvlugtige nadat hy na bewering uit Brittanje gevlug het voor sy gesin se liggame ontdek is. Hy word in Suid-Afrika beskuldig […]
# The head of the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption, Andrea Johnson, has told the Madlanga Commission that senior investigator Brian Padayachee only received the Section 27 referral in the investigation involving Crime Intelligence head Dumisani Khumalo after he had already joined the case. Johnson conceded to questions from Commission Chairperson Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, that Padayachee […]
# Deputy Defence and Military Veterans Minister Bantu Holomisa says public-private partnerships could help strengthen South Africa’s defence capabilities despite limited government funding. Speaking to the SABC amid the Defence Industry Lekgotla in Pretoria, Holomisa said partnerships could support military housing, infrastructure, border security and equipment modernisation without compromising national security. Holomisa called for innovative […]
# Werknemers van De Beers se Venetia-myn in Alldays, Limpopo, is bekommerd oor moontlike werkverliese nadat die onderneming besluit het om produksie vir twee jaar op te skort. Die stap stel meer as een-duisend-200 werksgeleenthede in gevaar in die grootste diamantmyn in Suid-Afrika. Sekere werknemers het reeds Artikel 189A-kennisgewings ontvang, wat tot afleggings kan lei. […]
