# Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero urges Electricity and Energy minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to prevent a potential power blackout in Johannesburg linked to the city’s growing debt to Eskom. Morero warns that diligent ratepayers could be affected if electricity supply is disrupted due to unpaid municipal arrears estimated at 5.2-billion-rand. He says the appeal comes amid […]
# ActionSA says it rejects the Health Department’s attempt to downplay the significance of the Constitutional Court’s landmark ruling declaring Sections 36 to 40 of the National Health Act unconstitutional and invalid. Spokesperson Kgosi Letlape says the department claims the judgment is unrelated to the National Health Insurance. He says the department itself argued the scheme […]
# Nehawu says the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the National Health Insurance Act represents another blow to the struggle for adequate and accessible healthcare. Sections 36 to 40, which relate to a state programme designed to control where healthcare practitioners could operate, were ruled unconstitutional. Nehawu’s Lwazi Nkolonzi says the ruling bolsters the coalition of big […]
# Build One South Africa leader, Mmusi Maimane, says the country is facing a full-blown crime crisis. Over the past decade, more than 21 million criminal cases were opened with the police, and of these, 61.7-percent were closed without being solved. Maimane says this means 13.2 million victims never saw justice. He has also highlighted […]
# Die MK-party se eerste adjunkpresident en parlementêre leier, John Hlophe, is een van drie partylede wat op die Parlement se ampsklagkomitee van 31 lede aangewys is. Die ander twee is die hoofsweep, Mmabatho Mokoena-Zondi, en Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala. Die komitee moet bepaal of president Cyril Ramaphosa sy ampseed verbreek het met die beweerde verswyging van […]
# First deputy president and parliamentary leader, John Hlophe, is one of three MK Party members who will be part of Parliament’s 31-member impeachment committee. The other two are chief whip Mmabatho Mokoena- Zondi and Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala. The committee will look into whether president Cyril Ramaphosa violated his oath of office in the alleged cover-up […]
# Die waarnemende minister van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Sindisiwe Chikunga, sê 293-miljard-rand is as deel van die program vir maatskaplike bystand toegestaan vir maandelikse regstreekse betalings vir kinders, pensioenarisse en mense met gestremdhede. Sy het gister die departement se begroting van 302-miljard rand vir die 2026/2027-boekjaar in die Parlement ter tafel gelê. Chikunga sê 36,4-miljard rand […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare is bekommerd oor berigte dat die brandstofprys weereens gaan styg. Die Sentrale Energiefonds se vooruitskatting vir Junie toon dat die petrolprys met tussen 13- en 19-sent kan styg, terwyl dieselpryse met tussen vier-rand-41- en drie-rand-52-sent kan daal. Claude Naicker van die vakbond sê die verwagte styging sal ‘n nóg groter […]
# Die vakverbond Cosatu sê hy is bekommerd omdat die Wes-Kaapse regering en die Stad Kaapstad die Wet op Openbare Verkryging in die Konstitusionele Hof uitdaag. Volgens die wet sal al die staat se verkryging hanteer word deur ʼn sentrale kantoor in Nasionale Tesourie. Dit bevat ook riglyne vir voorkeurverkryging in ooreenstemming met die regering […]
