# The National Union of Mineworkers, representing 15-thousand Eskom employees, is demanding a wage increase of up to 15-percent, more than four times inflation, ahead of upcoming negotiations. The call follows Eskom’s first profit in eight years and stabilisation of the power grid. NUM opposes Eskom’s plan to decentralise union recognition across unbundled entities, warning […]
# AfriForum has temporarily halted Eskom and Nersa’s 54-billion-rand settlement that could have cost consumers nearly nine-percent annual tariff hikes. The Pretoria High Court removed the case from the uncontested roll after AfriForum’s intervention, allowing the group and others to join the proceedings. AfriForum’s Deidré Steffens says the deal lacks transparency and public participation. She […]
# KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that criminal syndicates have infiltrated parts of the justice system nationwide. The committee probing Mkhwanazi’s allegations of police capture kicked off its hearings yesterday. He testified that corruption was not limited to KZN and Gauteng, but also affected provinces like the Western Cape. Mkhwanazi […]
# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has warned that South Africa risks becoming a banana republic if corruption within the police is not eradicated. Referencing the Madlanga Commission, Mbalula told the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union that resolutions must lead to implementation. He vowed accountability for those representing the ANC, stressing that the party must […]
# Die polisiekommissaris van KwaZulu-Natal, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi sê die skep van die Taakspan vir Politieke Moorde was nie polities gemotiveer nie, maar ’n uitvoerende besluit om die toename in politieke moorde in die provinsie aan te spreek. Tydens getuienis voor die parlement se ad hoc-komitee wat beweerde politieke inmenging in polisiewerk ondersoek, het Mkhwanazi gesê […]
# KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says the establishment of the Political Killings Task Team was not politically motivated but an executive decision to address rising political murders in the province. Testifying before Parliament’s ad hoc committee investigating allegations of political interference in policing, Mkhwanazi said the team was formed following president Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2018 […]
# Die DA het ‘n klagte ingedien by die Openbare Beskermer teen die minister van Toerisme, Patricia de Lille, oor haar besluit om die Suid-Afrikaanse Toerismeraad te ontbind. Die party sê die raad het binne sy regte opgetree om uitvoerende hoof, Nombulelo Guliwe, oor finansiële en onreëlmatighede te skors. Haseena Ismail van die DA sê […]
# Die Madlanga Kommissie van Ondersoek het ‘n Reël 3-kennisgewing aan die Noordwes-sakeman Brown Mogotsi uitgereik, om hom in kennis te stel dat hy betrek word en dat hy die reg het om aangehoor te word. Dit beteken hy het die reg om op bewerings te antwoord nadat sy naam genoem is. Die hoof van […]
# ‘n Kandidaat vir ‘n vakature in die Konstitusionele Hof, regter Nambitha Dambuza,, sê dis noodsaaklik dat die hoogste hof geslagsverteenwoordiging weerspieël. Die Regterlike Dienskommissie het vandag met onderhoude begin en sal tot die 15de voortgaan om vakatures in die land se hoër howe te vul. Kandidate op die kortlys doen aansoek by onder andere […]
