# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says municipalities cannot continue to receive public funds without accountability, emphasising that corruption, maladministration, financial mismanagement and the looting of municipal resources have devastated service delivery. National Treasury is temporarily withholding the July equitable share transfers to 69 municipalities due to failure to comply with key financial […]
# Die DA doen ʼn beroep op alle provinsiale onderwysdepartemente om dringend skole wat nog sanitasieprobleme het, te identifiseer en duidelike planne en tydlyne te verskaf oor hoe hulle dit gaan hanteer. Dit volg nadat die Departement van Basiese Onderwys al drie-duisend-372 sanitasieprojekte by skole afgehandel het wat in die 2018-oudit oor sanitasie geïdentifiseer is. […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging van Plaaslike Regerings sê plaaslike regering beleef steeds strukturele en sistemiese fiskale uitdagings wat dringende ondersteuning en hervorming vereis. Die Nasionale Tesourie hou die Julie-oordrag van fondse aan 69 munisipaliteite tydelik terug in ‘n poging om fiskale dissipline af te dwing, finansiële wanbestuur aan te spreek, en verantwoordbaarheid te verseker. Die […]
# The Public Servants Association calls on president Cyril Ramaphosa to extend the lifespan of the Madlanga commission. With less than a month left until the hearings wrap up, the commission is engaging with the Presidency about an extension. PSA spokesperson, Claude Naicker, says an extension will enable the commission to hear all relevant evidence […]
# ActionSA in Gauteng says National Treasury’s decision to withhold July equitable share payments to 69 municipalities, including the City of Johannesburg, highlights the compounding financial crisis that the metro is plunged into. Treasury says the withholding of funds is aimed at instilling fiscal discipline, ensuring that public money is properly managed, and forcing municipalities […]
# The South African Local Government Association says local government continues to face structural and systemic fiscal challenges that require urgent support and reform. National Treasury is temporarily withholding July equitable share transfers to 69 municipalities in a move aimed at enforcing fiscal discipline, addressing financial mismanagement and ensuring accountability. SALGA spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba, says […]
# Die groep teen immigrasie, March and March, se nasionale uitvoerende komitee het ʼn aksieplan vir die volgende drie maande bekendgestel wat nog betogings, plakkaat-betogings en blits-operasies in belangrike ekonomiese sentrums in Suid-Afrika insluit. Teenkanting teen onwettige immigrante in die land het die afgelope maande skerp toegeneem. Die beweging sê hy wil met rolspelers en […]
# Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, sê daar is meetbare vordering in optrede teen afpersing en intimidasie in die boubedryf. Volgens die bedryf word ongeveer 180 openbare infrastruktuurprojekte ter waarde van 63-miljard-rand weens afpersing, intimidasie of geweld vertraag. Die bou-mafia is veral bedrywig in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng en die Oos-Kaap. Macpherson sê […]
# The DA is calling on all provincial education departments to urgently identify and locate schools with remaining sanitation challenges and to provide clear plans and timelines for addressing them. This comes as the Department of Basic Education has achieved 100-percent completion of all three-thousand-372 school sanitation projects identified through the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for […]