# Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson has ordered an investigation into Morial Infrastructure Group. This follows the company’s links to businessman Lawrence Mudzingayima, who was caught on video threatening a group of women at a restaurant in Sandton, Johannesburg. Macpherson has expressed concern over allegations that the company obtained multiple gradings from […]
# The Gauteng government has welcomed the breakthrough in the police’s murder investigation involving the ninth victim in the series of murder cases involving women in Ekurhuleni. A man and two women have been arrested in connection with the murder of 28-year-old Gracious Nkomo, whose body was found in Dawn Park, Boksburg, last week. Provincial […]
# Forum for South Africa vra dringende regeringsingryping nadat 21-persent meer oproepe reeds dié maand in die Geslagsgeweld-sentrum aangemeld is. Voorlopige syfers van die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling toon die sentrum het tussen 1 en 16 September gemiddeld 424 oproepe per dag ontvang teenoor 350 in Augustus. Die organisasie se leier, Tebogo Mashilompane, sê die […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Indiensneming en Arbeid vra die publiek om kommentaar te lewer oor die Wysigingswet op Indiensnemingsdienste. Dis ʼn belangrike stap om wetgewing te formuleer wat die land se arbeidsmigrasie-raamwerk hervorm. Die voorgestelde wetgewing wil die indiensneming van buitelandse burgers reguleer. Dit wil ook die basiese Wet op Indiensnemingsdienste van 2014 bywerk […]
# The Forum for South Africa is calling for urgent government action following a 21-percent increase in calls to the Gender-Based Violence Command Centre in September. Preliminary figures from the Department of Social Development show the centre received six-thousand-782 calls between the first and 16th of September, an average of 424 calls a day, compared […]
# Die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling waarsku gemeenskappe om nie stil te bly oor geslagsgeweld en vrouemoord of dit te ignoreer nie. Die 24-uur Geslagsgeweld-sentrum het tussen 1 en 16 September ʼn aansienlike toename in oproepe aangemeld, naamlik ses-duisend-782 oproepe wat neerkom op gemiddeld 424 per dag. Die departement se woordvoerder, Sandy Godlwana, sê dis […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Employment and Labour has opened public comments on the Employment Services Amendment Bill, taking a critical step in formulating legislation that will reshape the country’s labour migration framework. The proposed legislation seeks to legally regulate the employment of foreign nationals. The bill is also intended to, among other things, update […]
# Die polisie het drie verdagtes, een man en twee vroue, gearresteer in verband met die negende vrou wat verlede week in Ekurhuleni dood aangetref is. Die liggaam van die 28-jarige Gracious Nkomo was in ʼn laken toegedraai toe dit in Dawnpark in Boksburg gevind is. Vyf vroue is in Kemptonpark, twee in Olifantsfontein, een in […]
# The Department of Social Development has urged communities to speak out against gender-based violence and femicide. The 24-hour GBV command centre recorded a significant increase in the number of calls between 1 and 16 September. It received six-thousand-782 calls, averaging 424 calls per day. Spokesperson Sandy Godlwana says this represents a 21-percent increase compared […]
