# Eco-justice group the Green Connection has urged Parliament to withdraw the proposed Gas Bill, warning it could lock South Africa deeper into oil and gas dependence while weakening oversight. The legislation, once promulgated, would replace the Gas Act, with a new framework covering areas including liquefied natural gas, gas infrastructure, investment, licensing and enforcement. […]
# Union federation Cosatu is concerned about the rise of far-right vigilante, racial and tribal groupings that pose a serious threat to South Africa’s hard-won non-racial democracy. AfriForum and the March and March movement announced a collaborative working group to cooperate on community safety, legal issues, education, and anti-crime initiatives. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks says this strange […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed concern over the ongoing crisis at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme. Last week, the High Court in Pretoria suspended the appointment of professor Hlengani Mathebula as administrator and restored the scheme’s remaining board members. This comes after minister Higher Education and Training Buti Manamela dissolved the board and […]
# Die GOOD-party sê AfriForum en die MK-party het niks behalwe ʼn voorkeur vir litigasie oor regeringsbeleide in gemeen gehad nie, tot die teen-immigrantegroep, March and March, met albei vriende gemaak het. AfriForum en March and March het ooreengekom om saam te werk wat regskwessies betref, ten spyte van aansienlike verskille tussen die twee drukgroepe. […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof hoor vandag ʼn dringende aansoek van die MK-party en die United Africans Transformation aan om te appelleer teen die tussentydse interdik dat die parlementêre Ampsklagkomitee sy verhore staak. Dit volg nadat die Konstitusionele Hof ʼn vroeëre appèl van die African Transformation Movement en ander partye verwerp het. Die interdik is hangende […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê groter aanspreeklikheid moet deel wees van ‘n uitgebreide poging om sterftes in bouwerk te verminder. Daarby is beter munisipale wette en professionele toesig nodig en die reguleerders moet inligting deel. Hy het inligting bekend gemaak oor vier bou-insidente in Redcliffe in Verulam, Doornkop in […]
# The GOOD Party says AfriForum and the MK Party had nothing in common besides a taste for litigation to vent their disdain for the policies of government, before the anti-immigrant organisation March and March befriended both. AfriForum and March and March have agreed to work together on legal issues, despite significant differences between the […]
# The Western Cape High Court will today hear an urgent application by the MK Party and United Africans Transformation for leave to appeal the interim interdict ordering Parliament’s Impeachment Committee to halt its hearings. It follows the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of an earlier appeal by the African Transformation Movement and other parties. The interdict […]
# Die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, het die kennisgewingperiode vir die aflegging van werkers by die Passasierspooragentskap van Suid-Afrika verleng. Dit is om die ministeriële taakspan meer tyd te gee om alternatiewe vir 227 werkers te vind. Van die 580 betrokke werkers, het 43 vroeë aftrede-pakkette aanvaar terwyl 102 na ander vakante poste by […]
