# Die lugvaartreus Airbus wil die gebruik van sy C295-militêre vervoervliegtuie in Suid-Afrika en elders in Afrika uitbrei. Die vliegtuig kan ingespan word vir soldate- en vragvervoer, mediese ontruimings en humanitêre operasies vanaf ongeteerde aanloopbane. Airbus het ‘n vier-jaar-ooreenkoms onderteken met Wits Universiteit en Frankryk se Hoër Instituut vir Lugvaartkunde en Ruimtevaart om opleiding in […]
# Statistiek Suid-Afrika sê die verligting in brandstofinflasie het gehelp om die jaarlikse vervoerinflasie in Augustus te beperk. Vervoerinflasie het van 8,9-persent in Julie tot 8,8-persent in Augustus afgeneem, terwyl jaarlikse brandstofprys-inflasie tot 20-persent verlangsaam het. Petrolpryse het tussen Julie en Augustus met twee-persent gedaal en dieselpryse het met 3,1-persent gestyg. Woordvoerder Ricado Johnson sê […]
# Die ANC het hom tot die Konstitusionele Hof gewend in sy stryd oor 181 verkiesingskandidate wat uitgesluit is. Dit volg nadat die Kieshof verlede week die party se aansoek geweier het om die kandidate toe te laat vir die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing op 4 November. Die party voer aan hulle besonderhede is voor die sperdatum […]
# The ANC has taken its fight over 181 excluded election candidates to the Constitutional Court. This comes after the Electoral Court last week dismissed the party’s bid to have the candidates reinstated for the 4 November local government elections. The party argues the candidates’ details were captured on the Electoral Commission’s online system before […]
# The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has granted the wife of businessman Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala, Tsakane, and her co-accused, Claudette Masethe and Given Makofane, 20-thousand-rand bail each in a lease fraud and corruption case. Cat Matlala remains in custody at Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre in the same case. The accused face allegations of using fraudulent […]
# A Limpopo businessman faces further serious charges after appearing in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court today. Tsebe Phillimon Moloto, owner of the Limpopo Anti-Drug Centre, was already out on fifty-thousand-rand bail for malicious damage to property. The state has added arson, trespassing, and five counts of attempted murder. It is alleged Moloto poured flammable liquid […]
# ‘n Taxi-eienaar van Mpumalanga, Oupa “Bafana” Sindane, het die Madlanga-kommissie gevra om sy verskyning uit te stel totdat hy medies geskik en ‘n dringende aansoek op 6 Oktober in die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria aangehoor is. Hy wil ‘n interdik bekom om te verhoed dat hy moet getuig. Sindane se regsverteenwoordiger, Thabani Masuku, sê die […]
# A professor in Criminology at the University of Pretoria, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, says South Africa has 187-thousand-681 police personnel, but only about 25-thousand operational officers may be available at any time. The total includes 155-thousand-231 sworn officers and 32-thousand-413 civilians who don’t do frontline policing. Speaking to 702, he says after suspensions, leave and absenteeism, […]
# Statistics South Africa says easing fuel inflation helped slow annual transport inflation in August. Transport inflation declined to eight-point-eight-percent from eight-point-nine-percent in July, while annual fuel inflation eased to 20-percent. Petrol prices fell by two-percent between July and August, although diesel prices increased by three-point-one-percent. Meanwhile, Stats SA’s Patrick Kelly says fish prices continued […]
