# Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations is being briefed by the Communications and Digital Technologies Department on various issues. This includes the funding models, spending reviews, and the impact of budget constraints on the department and its entities, including the SABC. Lawmakers aim to assess how underfunding affects broadcasting obligations and ensure public funds are […]
# The UDM says president Cyril Ramaphosa’s celebration of South Africa’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force greylist sounds profoundly tone deaf. UDM deputy president, Nqabayomzi Kwankwa says while the president hails technical compliance and investor confidence, millions of South Africans face hunger, joblessness and fear. He adds that technical milestones must be matched […]
# Parliament’s Portfolio Committees on Trade, Industry and Competition, and Transport met with black traders over concerns about Transport minister Barbara Creecy’s directive to renew 25-year leases at Durban’s Transnet Island View Precinct. Traders allege oil majors control port infrastructure and limit fair access. Creecy and Mineral and Petroleum Resources minister Gwede Mantashe defended the move […]
# Die ontwikkelaar van Please Call Me, Nkosana Makate, betwis ‘n regskostebevel van 13-miljoen-rand nadat hy in die Konstitusionele Hof teen Vodacom verloor het. Die koste hou verband met ‘n enkele dag se betoë nadat die hof in Vodacom se guns beslis en die saak terugverwys het na die Appèlhof. Makate noem die bevel onbillik […]
# The South African technology companies, Specno and Tentra has announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence-powered home rental platform in South Africa. Tentra founder and CEO, Joram Hinds, says by leveraging the full capabilities of AI-enabled systems, Tentra aims to streamline rental applications in the country. He says this will benefit both agents […]
# The EFF is concerned about the decision by Parliament to adopt the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs’ report on the filling of vacancies in the Electoral Commission of South Africa. The party says this decision disregards the findings and recommendations of the panel chaired by Chief Justice Mandisa Maya, which raised serious concerns about […]
# Please Call Me inventor Nkosana Makate is challenging a 13-million-rand legal costs order following his Constitutional Court loss to Vodacom. The costs relate to a single day’s arguments after the apex court ruled in Vodacom’s favour and referred the case back to the Supreme Court of Appeal. Makate calls the order unfair and excessive, […]
# Die Grammy-bekroonde Suid-Afrikaanse sangeres Tyla is gereed om op haar eerste toer as hoofkunstenaar te vertrek. Die ‘We Wanna Party’-toer sou verlede jaar plaasvind, maar is uitgestel. Die 23-jarige sangerers het haar opgewondenheid op sosiale media gedeel en sê sy het al op ander verhoë opgetree, maar nou kry sy haar eie. Die toer […]
# Die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, het die Barcelona-verklaring oor tuberkulose onderteken. Dit is Suid-Afrika se formele verbintenis tot ‘n hernude wêreldwye parlementêre beweging om TB binne ‘n geslag uit te roei. Die ondertekeningseremonie het saamgeval met die amptelike bekendstelling van die Suid-Afrikaanse TB-parlementêre koukus. Meer mense het tot dusver aan TB […]
