# Minister of Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald, says overcrowding in prisons is driven by pressures in the criminal justice system, including delays in processing remand detainee cases and court referrals. Currently, the department has some 107-thousand beds available for inmates, with sentenced inmates already occupying at least 106-thousand-280 beds. Groenewald says the main pressure stems […]
# Die SAKP kritiseer die ANC omdat die regerende party weier om deel te neem aan die komende Konferensie van Linkses. Die konferensie met die tema “Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power”, sal deur verskeie linkse politieke partye en vakbonde bygewoon word. Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal Fikile Mbalula sê dis ʼn politieke […]
# Die minister van Menslike Nedersettings, Thembi Simelane, het erken dat die lewering van behuising nie die teikens haal nie. Slegs 23-duisend-27 behuisingseenhede is gelewer teenoor die teiken van 37-duisend-779 die vorige boekjaar. Sy het ʼn begroting van 26,972-miljard-rand vir die 2026/2027-boekjaar ter tafel gelê. Simelane sê die departement sal optree teen kontrakteurs wat agter […]
# The Border Management Authority says of the 300 Ghanaians who took up their government’s offer of repatriation, 295 were found eligible to depart South Africa on a chartered flight from OR Tambo International Airport yesterday. This follows a wave of protests against illegal immigration, sparking fear of a resurgence of xenophobic violence. BMA’s Mmemme […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie sê ongeregverdige aanvalle op die integriteit van die verkiesingsproses beskadig nie net individuele of institusionele reputasies nie; hulle berokken blywende skade aan die land se grondwetlike struktuur. Die totale aantal geregistreerde kiesers staan op 27,9-miljoen Suid-Afrikaners voor die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing in November. Die voorsitter van die OVK, Mosotho Moepya, sê die verdediging van […]
# The South African Communist Party has criticised the ANC, after the governing party refused to participate in the upcoming Conference of the Left. The conference, themed “Building a Left Movement for Working-Class and Popular Power”, will be attended by various leftist political parties and unions. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula accused the initiative of being a […]
# Human Settlements minister, Thembi Simelane, has acknowledged that housing delivery remains below target, revealing that only 23-thousand-and-27 housing units were delivered against a target of 37-thousand-779 during the previous financial year. She tabled a 26.972-billion-rand budget allocation for the 2026/2027 financial year. Simelane says the department will take decisive action against underperforming contractors and officials […]
# The Electoral Commission says unfounded attacks on the integrity of electoral processes do not merely damage individual or institutional reputations; they inflict lasting injury on the country’s constitutional fabric. The total number of registered voters currently stands at 27.9 million South Africans, ahead of the November local government elections. IEC chairperson, Mosotho Moepya, says […]
# Economist Dawie Roodt says South Africa risks driving people away from the rand if exchange controls on cryptocurrencies are tightened. Speaking to BizNews, Roodt criticised proposed Treasury regulations that could require crypto holders to declare assets and, in some cases, sell them to the state. He argued that blockchain technology makes traditional exchange controls […]
