# The DA in the Western Cape says it reaffirms its call for the devolution of certain policing powers to the City of Cape Town Metro Police Service and law enforcement authorities in the province. This comes after six people were shot and killed in Wesbank gang violence over the last three weeks. The DA’s, […]
# United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, says plastic pollution is choking the planet, harming ecosystems, well-being, and the climate. Today marks World Environment Day under the theme, Putting an End to Plastic Pollution. An estimated 20-million metric tons of plastic litter end up in the environment every year, and this number is expected to increase significantly […]
# Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die meeste sake oor onwettige vuurwapens in die metro word weens die gebroke strafregstelsel nooit verhoor nie. Volgens ʼn mediaverklaring van die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisiediens is daar na bewering ʼn sukseskoers van 80- tot 90-persent wat hierdie sake betref. Hill-Lewis sê oor vier jaar was daar slegs vyf-persent skuldigbevindings […]
# Die EFF sê hulle verwerp die verslag van die Parlement se staande komitee oor Finansies, wat die 2025 Fiskale Raamwerk en Inkomstevoorstelle insluit wat verlede maand deur die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, ter tafel gelê is. Die goedkeuring van die fiskale raamwerk is ‘n sleutelstap in die begrotingsproses. Die raamwerk stel ekonomiese beleid […]
# US president Donald Trump has signed an executive order restricting foreign student visas at Harvard University. Last month, the administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol foreign students, but a federal judge temporarily blocked the move. The university’s international students make up about 27-percent of the student body. Trump says Harvard has failed to present […]
# Die VF Plus doen ‘n beroep op president Cyril Ramaphosa om te verduidelik hoekom hy die Nasionale Gesondheidsversekeringswet kort voor verlede jaar se verkiesing onderteken het. Dit volg na die president appèl by die Konstitusionele Hof oor die Hooggeregshofbeslissing dat hy redes moet verskaf. Philip van Staden van die VF Plus sê Ramaphosa se […]
# The Eastern Cape Health Department has adopted the use of the Central Supplier Database quotation system, which has been developed by the National Treasury. The CSD serves as the source of all supplier information for all spheres of government. The department’s spokesperson, Sizwe Kupelo, says this new system will help reduce duplication of effort and […]
# FNB senior economist, Koketso Mano, says with harvesting of summer crops in full swing, the latest fuel cut will boost farmers’ profitability as it accounts for almost 13-percent of input costs in grain production. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five cents a litre. Motorists are also now paying 37-cents less for diesel […]
# The DA says the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has failed to process existing claims despite having had the legal framework, time, and funding to do so. To date, over 52-billion-rand has been spent on land restitution. The DA’s, Sonja Boshoff, says more than five-thousand-700 land claims lodged before the original 1998 […]
