# Manufacturing industry bodies have urged the National Treasury to clarify comments suggesting manufacturing may not be South Africa’s main source of future job growth. Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa, the Manufacturing Circle and Polasa say manufacturing remains vital for industrial development, exports and economic resilience. They warn that mixed policy signals […]
# South Africa’s wind energy sector could increase its workforce by up to 400-percent by 2042 if planned renewable energy expansion continues. The world’s leading wind turbine manufacturer, Denmark’s Vestas, says industry employment could grow from three-thousand-750 to more than 20-thousand jobs. However, the company warns that policy certainty, a predictable procurement pipeline and expanded […]
# Gun Free South Africa is calling on government to strengthen efforts to curb the circulation of illegal firearms as the country marks Gun Destruction Day. Spokesperson Claire Taylor says last night’s mass shootings in Cape Town highlight the urgent need to tackle the circulation of illegal firearms. She says government must strengthen intelligence-led law […]
# South Africans whose identity documents were blocked before November 2022 have until tomorrow, to visit a Department of Home Affairs office and verify their identity. Affected individuals must appear in person with documents including proof of birth, hospital or school records, and certified copies of their parents’ identity documents or death certificates. Failure to […]
# Municipal workers’ union SAMWU demands that the National Treasury reverse its decision to temporarily withhold funding to 69 municipalities. General secretary Dumisane Magagula says this will push already struggling authorities closer to collapse, with devastating consequences for workers, communities, and the delivery of essential public services. He says municipal workers are not responsible for the […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum verwelkom die Nasionale Tesourie se besluit om 3,5-miljard-rand se toekennings te weerhou van 69 munisipaliteite vir nie-voldoening. Dis gedoen om groter fiskale dissipline af te dwing, te verseker openbare geld word behoorlik bestuur en munisipaliteite te dwing om ongemagtigde en verkwistende uitgawes te bestry. Woordvoerder Dennis Bloem sê wydverspreide korrupsie […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum has welcomed National Treasury’s decision to temporarily withhold 13.5-billion-rand in local government equitable share transfers from 69 non-compliant municipalities. This is aimed at instilling fiscal discipline, ensuring public money is properly managed, and forcing municipalities to deal with unauthorised and wasteful expenditure. Spokesperson Dennis Bloem says widespread corruption and poor governance […]
# Suid-Afrika vra Amerika om die ekonomiese, handels- en finansiële sanksies van byna sewe dekades teen Kuba op te hef en sê dis die grootste struikelblok in die land se ontwikkeling-strewe. Kuba sê die skade wat die sanksies veroorsaak, het van Maart verlede jaar tot Februarie vanjaar ʼn rekord 131,2-miljard-rand beloop. Suid-Afrika se ambassadeur by […]
# Die motorbedryf se personeelvereniging, MISA, het ontsteltenis uitgespreek oor die bevindings van die Menseregtekommissie se verslag oor seksuele geweld by skole. Volgens die verslag is 26-duisend-855 gevalle van kindermishandeling in die 2024/2025-boekjaar aangemeld, waarvan nege-duisend-857 seksuele misbruik was. MISA se woordvoerder, Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, sê dit ontbloot die toenemende gaping tussen die land se omvattende […]
