# Lamb Champs has announced a new team of ten sheep farmers, known as the Baa-Barians, who will take on Team South Africa in the inaugural Lamb Champs invitational in Pretoria on 31 October. The change follows Namibia’s withdrawal from the competition due to foot-and-mouth disease. Lamb Champs founder and Southern African Agri Initiative CEO […]
# Eskom continues to record operational improvements across its generation fleet, with its year-to-date energy availability factor reaching 68.2-percent – the highest financial year-to-date level in six years. Spokesperson Daphne Mokwena says the performance reflects sustained operational improvements and structural interventions implemented across the generation fleet. She says Eskom’s continued focus on operational improvements is […]
# Parliament Standing Committee on Finance has expressed serious concern over approximately 1.7-billion-rand in outstanding pension fund contributions owed by about 19 municipalities. in the Free State and North West account for 79.4-percent of the total outstanding debt. Committee Chairperson Joe Maswanganyi says the committee will engage with the Ministers of Finance and Cooperative Governance […]
# Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has raised concerns over irregular expenditure, consecutive deficits and a doubling of spending on consultants at the Commission for Gender Equality. The committee also questioned weaknesses in performance verification and demanded explanations for unfilled research posts. Members called for stronger consequence management, saying officials […]
# Afrika Mayibuye Movement has questioned whether government support programmes are improving conditions in struggling municipalities. The concerns follow recent meeting, where the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs reported achieving 86-percent of its annual performance targets, despite ongoing water and sewage failures and poor infrastructure spending. Mayibuye spokesperson Sydney Baloyi says municipal interventions […]
# The United Progressive People Alliance, has wished the Matric Class of 2026 well as learners prepare to begin their final examinations on Tuesday. Umalusi has confirmed that approximately 1.08-million candidates are registered to write the year-end examinations at nine-thousand-183 centres across the country. UPPA spokesperson Abel Tau has recognised the hard work, sacrifices and […]
# The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has welcomed a Johannesburg High Court ruling allowing the reconvening of the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ 15th National Congress. The Congress resumes today in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, and will continue until Thursday, to complete its outstanding business. SADTU’s spokesperson, Nomusa Cembi has described the judgment […]
# The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union, SADTU, has expressed grave concern over growing calls from business interests and sections of the political establishment to exclude worker representatives from the boards overseeing workers’ pension and investment funds. SADTU spokesperson Nomusa Cembi says proposals by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana could undermine workers’ democratic control over their […]
# Die voorsitter van die Interministeriële Komitee oor Migrasie, Mmamoloko Kubayi, sê die regering sal voortgaan om immigrasiewette toe te pas, insluitend die deportasie van onwettige buitelanders. Kubayi het in Pretoria die gevolge van die Konstitusionele Hof se uitspraak uiteengesit. Kubayi sê buitelandse burgers wat onwettig in die land is sonder dat hulle om asiel […]
