# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare sê hy is diep bekommerd oor die Departement van Water en Sanitasie die hoogste vakantheidsyfer in die staatsdiens het. Regeringsdepartemente het sowat 100-duisend vakante betrekkings met hierdie departement wat ‘n vakantheidsyfer van 23,89-persent het. Dis meer as die Departement van Openbare Werke en Administrasie se teiken van agt-persent. Claude Naicker […]
# C40 Cities says claims that South Africa’s coal-heavy electricity grid makes the adoption of electric vehicles premature are misguided. C40 is a global network of mayors of the world’s leading cities working to confront the climate crisis. C40 Cities senior programme manager for Africa, Prian Reddy, says mechanisms such as energy wheeling and the […]
# Die talentvolle Suid-Afrikaanse aktrise, model en filantroop, Nomzamo Mbatha, is ingesluit op Time Magazine se 2025 TIME100 Next-lys. Die lys gee erkenning aan opkomende leiers en invloedryke mense wat die toekoms vorm. Mbatha het deur haar rol as die VN-hoëkommissaris vir vlugtelinge se Welwillendheid-ambassadeur bekend geraak as kampvegter vir vlugtelingregte. Sy is in die […]
# AfriForum het kommentaar ingedien oor die Wysigingswet op Basiese Onderwyswette se regulasies. Die minister van Basiese Onderwys, Siviwe Gwarube, het in Augustus die eerste twee stelle regulasies onder die BELA-wet vir openbare kommentaar gepubliseer. Hierdie regulasies hou verband met belangrike bepalings van die Suid-Afrikaanse Skolewet wat skoolkapasiteit en skooltoelating betref. AfriForum se woordvoerder, Alana […]
# The South African Communist Party has strongly condemned the recent actions of anti-immigrant vigilante groups, including Operation Dudula. These groups have targeted migrants and undocumented South Africans mainly in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, denying them access to essential public services and turning them away from government clinics and hospitals. The SACP’s Mbulelo Mandlana says populist vigilantism, […]
# Die metaalwerkersvakbond, Numsa, kritiseer die regering omdat hy nie beter beheer het oor die invoer van buitelandse produkte, veral Asiatiese en Indiese voertuie nie. Hy sê dis ten koste van die plaaslike vervaardigingsarbeidsmag. In 2018 was een-persent invoere in die voertuigmark uit China en Indië, maar in 2025 het dit tot 26-persent geklim. Numsa se […]
# The Public Servants Association says it is deeply concerned that the Department of Water and Sanitation has the highest rate of vacancies in the public service. Government departments have nearly 100-thousand job vacancies, with the department having a 23.89-percent vacancy rate. This exceeds the Department of Public Service and Administration vacancy target of eight-percent. […]
# The Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute is strongly opposed to Eskom’s bid for the extension of the lifeline for Koeberg nuclear power station’s Unit 2 in Cape Town. The power utility has applied to the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation to have the operating licence of Unit 2 at Koeberg extended for a […]
# Die vakverbond, Saftu, sê daar kan nie vrede in Gaza wees sonder geregtigheid nie, en geregtigheid vereis volgens hom ʼn einde aan die beleg, besetting en sogenaamde misdade van Israel. Die vakverbond ondersteun die aktiviste aan boord van die Sumud-flottielje, insluitend Nkosi Mandla Mandela, wat aangehou word. Saftu-woordvoerder Asive Dyani sê lande moet saamstaan, […]
