# The Board of Healthcare Funders supports the objective of keeping medical scheme contribution increases as low as possible, but says this cannot be achieved through contribution guidance alone. The Council for Medical Schemes recommended that contribution increases for the 2027 benefit year be anchored at 3.8-percent. BHF’s managing director, Katlego Mothudi, says healthcare providers […]
# Die organisasie Suid-Afrikaanse Vroue in die Boubedryf en Bou-omgewing veroordeel alle vorms van intimidasie, teistering, dreigemente of mishandeling van vroue. Beeldmareriaal toon hoe die Zimbabwiese sakeman Lawrence Mudzinganyama ‘n groep vroue dreig nadat hul sy toenadering verwerp het in ‘n luukse restaurant in Sandton, Johannesburg. Mudzinganyama het hom aan die polisie oorgegee en is […]
# Deputy minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts, will lead a nationwide campaign to plant ten million trees on Heritage Day on Thursday. This forms part of president Cyril Ramaphosa’s One Billion Trees Programme to mobilise citizens to mitigate climate change. Swarts will lead the main event at Freedom Park in Pretoria […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Transport says the reported incident involving a South African National Roads Agency contractor is unacceptable and regrettable. Zimbabwean businessman Lawrence Mudzinganyama was caught on camera threatening a group of women who rejected his advances at the Vlamo restaurant in Sandton, Johannesburg. Committee chairperson Donald Selamolela welcomes Transport minister Barbara Creecy ordering that […]
# The South African Women in Construction and Built Environment says it strongly condemns any form of intimidation, harassment, threats or abuse directed at women. This comes after Zimbabwean businessman Lawrence Mudzinganyama was caught on camera threatening a group of women who rejected his advances at an upmarket restaurant in Sandton. He handed himself over to […]
# Die minister van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Ronald Lamola, sê Suid-Afrika se eie stryd bewys die belofte van die Verenigde Nasies se handves en die moontlikhede van ʼn multilaterale stelsel. Hy het die handves se viering in New York aangebied. Lamola sê die huidige aanvalle op internasionale reg en multilateralisme is deel van ʼn […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola says South Africa’s own struggle is a testament to the United Nations Charter’s great promise and to the possibilities of a multilateral system. He hosted a celebration of the UN Charter at the Riverside Church in New York. Lamola says the current attacks on international law […]
# Die Departement van Basiese Onderwys se direkteur-generaal, Mathanzima Mweli, sê sy kommer oor die leefstyloudit-proses moenie beskou word as ʼn weiering om hom aan wettige ondersoeke te onderwerp nie. Hy sê hy is bekommerd oor die manier waarop die oudit uitgevoer word, insluitend die hantering van vertroulike en persoonlike inligting. Mweli sê leefstyloudits gebruik […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare het kommer uitgespreek oor berigte dat die Suid-Afrikaanse Agentskap vir Maatskaplike Sekerheid, SASSA, miljoene rande skuld vir die huur van kantore reg oor die land. Die agterstallige huurgeld sluit in 16,5-miljoen-rand vir die Rekordbestuur-sentrum waar sensitiewe organisatoriese rekords bewaar word. Die vakbondwoordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê hierdie administratiewe versuim kan ernstige […]
