# 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 […]
# Mpumalanga taxi boss Oupa “Bafana” Sindane has asked the Madlanga Commission to postpone his appearance until he is medically fit to attend and until an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria is heard on October 6. He is seeking to interdict his testimony before the commission. Sindane’s lawyer, Thabani Masuku, says the […]
# South Africa’s annual food price inflation has increased for the first time in nine months, but remains relatively moderate. Statistics South Africa says food inflation rose to 1.1-percent in August, from zero-point-nine percent in July. Overall inflation also edged up, reaching 4.4-percent from 4.3-percent. However, core inflation, which excludes fuel, food and electricity, improved […]
# Rise Mzansi veroordeel die moord op 11 mense, insluitend ‘n swanger vrou, en die besering van drie in KwaMakhutha, KwaZulu-Natal. Woordvoerder Mabinda Seaba sê uiterste geweld het te algemeen geword en hulle eis besliste optrede, aanspreeklikheid en nuwe leierskap. Seaba vra die verwydering van onwettige vuurwapens, die ontwrigting van misdaadnetwerke deur vinnige optrede gegrond […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare verwelkom die nuwe besturende direkteur van die Staats-inligtingstegnologie-agentskap, Magatho Mello, se verbintenis om vertroue te herstel. Hy erken die agentskap se negatiewe openbare beeld, lae kliënte-tevredenheid en nadelige uitwerking op personeel. Claude Naicker van die vakbond sê die herstel van vertroue kan nie beperk word tot veranderings op uitvoerende of […]
# Die burgerlike organisasie Forum for South Africa is bekommerd oor die aanklagte teen die geskorste adjunk-nasionale polisiekommissaris, Shadrack Sibiya. Die 59-jarige word aangekla van die verkragting van ‘n 18-jarige vrou in ‘n hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg, in Mei, en die seksuele voorbereiding van ‘n 16-jarige meisie tussen Julie en Augustus vanjaar. Die forum se […]
# Die premier van KwaZulu-Natal, Thami Ntuli, sê die massaskietery in KwaMakhutha naby Durban kan verband hou met gevegte oor dwelmgebiede en onwettige vuurwapens. Die polisie soek na verdagtes nadat 11 mense, insluitend ‘n swanger vrou, in die Ziko-gebied doodgeskiet en nog drie gewond is. Ntuli sê berigte uit die gemeenskap dui op dwelmbedrywighede en […]
# Aerospace giant Airbus is seeking to expand the presence of its C295 military transport aircraft in South Africa and across Africa. The aircraft can conduct troop and cargo transport, medical evacuations and humanitarian missions, including from unpaved runways. Airbus has also signed a four-year agreement with Wits University and France’s Higher Institute of Aeronautics […]
