# Minister Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, and deputy minister Sihle Zikalala will lead an intervention roadshow to ten public bodies identified across the country. This after they recorded the largest year-on-year decrease in reported Expanded Public Works Programme work opportunities during 2025/2026 financial year. The minister says the public bodies, which range from […]
# The Health Department has welcomed progress made towards a new tuberculosis vaccine and confirmed preparatory work to ensure timely access for South Africans. This forms part of ongoing efforts to eliminate this epidemic as a public health threat by the year 2030. The department’s spokesperson, Foster Mohale says a vaccine that prevents TB disease […]
# The Water and Sanitation Department says it will continue with public consultation about the proposed tariff adjustments for the 2027/2028 financial year, before they are finalised. It says the consultations provide an important platform for stakeholders to gain a better understanding of the raw water pricing process, the factors influencing tariff adjustments, and the role […]
# Police say investigations on a consignment of cocaine worth an estimated 28-million -rand are ongoing to identify and apprehend those involved in the attempted smuggling operation. Police spokesperson, Athlenda Mathe says the cargo, which had arrived at OR Tambo International Airport, in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni on Friday on a flight from São Paulo, Brazil […]
# Deputy Minister for Electricity and Energy, Alexandra Abrahams, says the ministry will continue engaging the National Nuclear Regulator, the National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute, Eskom and other stakeholders to strengthen institutional coordination across the nuclear sector. She says Koeberg Nuclear Power Station’s future contribution would depend on disciplined maintenance, the retention and development of specialist nuclear skills, […]
# Forum for South Africa has welcomed lifestyle audits at the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate against Corruption, announced by Justice and Constitutional Development minister, Mmamoloko Kubayi. Leader Tebogo Mashilompane says public confidence in law enforcement and prosecutor agencies has been severely damaged by allegations of corruption, political interference, and the slow prosecution of high-profile […]
# Die Activists and Citizens Forum oorweeg dit om strafregtelike klagte van intimidasie teen Paul O’Sullivan in te dien. Dit volg na getuienis voor die Madlanga-kommissie deur die senior ondersoeker van die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie, Mantsha Raphesu, waarin beweer word dat O’Sullivan in Januarie 2025 ‘n e-pos gestuur het aan Dineo Mokwele, die adjunk- nasionale […]
# Die polisie sê die ondersoek na ‘n besending kokaïen ter waarde van ongeveer 28-miljoen-rand gaan voort om diegene betrokke by die poging te identifiseer en aan te keer. Polisiewoordvoerder Athlenda Mathe sê die besending van 95-kilogram kokaïen wat Vrydag op die OR Tambo Internasionale Lughawe in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, aangekom het op ‘n vlug […]
# Die DA-leier, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê sy party begin vandag met sy grondwetlike uitdaging van die Onteieningswet in die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof. Hy sê hulle is in die hof omdat die reg om eiendom te besit fundamenteel is vir vryheid, waardigheid en ekonomiese geleenthede. Hill-Lewis sê geen regering moet vae en omvattende magte kry om sonder […]
