# The City of Cape Town is hosting a Housing Investment Connect Conference in Century City to accelerate affordable housing delivery and attract private-sector investment. Human Settlements Mayoral Committee Member Carl Pophaim told the SABC that rising population is making housing an increasingly urgent need. The conference discusses unlocking municipal land, streamlining development regulations, promoting […]
# TV personality and disbarred attorney Peet Viljoen has been denied bail in a multi-million-rand fraud case. Viljoen appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court this morning, where he was deemed a flight risk. He faces more than 400 charges, including fraud and corruption linked to the 2010 sale of municipal property worth about […]
# Suid-Afrika worstel teen regshindernisse in sy poging om ongeveer 299-miljoen-rand te verhaal wat bestee is aan die repatriasie van buitelandse burgers na Malawi, Nigerië en Ethiopië. Die Departement van Binnelandse Sake sê hy het die regerings gevra om die terugbetalings te doen. ‘n Kenner van Internasionale betrekkinge, Kingsley Makhubela, sê egter Suid-Afrika kan sukkel […]
# Political economist Patrick Bond says the Constitutional Court ruling blocking Shell and Impact Africa from conducting offshore seismic testing along the Wild Coast goes beyond stopping an oil and gas project. The court handed down the ruling on 15 August, overturning a 2024 Supreme Court of Appeal judgment. Bond says the decision recognises environmental, […]
# Businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala has invoked his right against self-incrimination at the Madlanga commission. He says his privilege applies specifically to the Medicare24 contract, which is the subject of pending criminal charges. Matlala says his company was previously contracted by the Police Service to provide health and risk-related services, but the tender has since […]
# South Africa faces legal hurdles in its attempt to recover about 299-million-rand spent repatriating foreign nationals to Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia. The Department of Home Affairs says it has asked the three governments for reimbursement. International relations expert Kingsley Makhubela says South Africa could struggle to recover the money without legally binding agreements requiring […]
# Die Brigitte Mabandla-kollege vir Justisie in Pretoria, waar die Madlanga-kommissie se verrigtinge plaasvind, is veilig verklaar nadat ‘n brandalarm vanoggend ‘n voorsorg-ontruiming veroorsaak het. Tshwane se nooddienste het die gebou ondersoek en bevestig geen brand het uitgebreek nie en niemand is beseer nie. Die kommissie het intussen hervat, met die sakeman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala […]
# Suid-Afrikaanse huishoudings ondervind ‘n verergerende bekostigbaarheids-krisis, ondanks ‘n tydperk van gedempte amptelike voedselinflasie. ‘n Peiling deur die Pietermaritzburgse Ekonomiese Geregtigheids- en Waardigheids-organisasie toon dat die koste van ‘n noodsaaklike voedselmandjie mense se inkomste aansienlik oorskry, wat talle gesinne laat sukkel om basiese voeding te verseker. Woordvoerder Mervyn Abrahams sê daar is ‘n erge gaping […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum sê die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag moet versterk word om sake te hanteer wat voortspruit uit die Madlanga-kommissie. Die kommissie se tweede tussentydse verslag beveel strafregtelike stappe aan teen Shadrack Sibiya, Getuie G, Fannie Nkosi en Brown Mogotsi. Die forum se woordvoerder, Dennis Bloem, sê die Nasionale Direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Andy […]
