# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero is calling on residents to report illegal electricity connections and help protect electricity infrastructure. The metro’s electricity losses are estimated at around 29-percent, with non-technical losses largely associated with illegal connections, meter tampering, electricity theft and unmetered consumption. Morero says the impact of electricity theft extends beyond the financial losses […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse polisie het ʼn derde verdagte, ʼn 40-jarige vrou, aangekeer vir die moord op die musikant Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock buite ʼn gekaapte gebou in die Johannesburgse middestad in Desember. ‘n Mosambiekse burger, Armando Pacula, is verlede maand tot 25-jaar tronkstraf gevonnis nadat hy erken het hy het Stock geskiet. Die saak teen […]
# The DA says Home Affair’s current digital transformation shows the department is overcoming its historical association with queues, system failures and inefficiency. Minister Leon Schreiber is attending a congress in Dubai this week, showcasing his department’s rapidly accelerating digital transformation. The DA’s Adrian Roos says Home Affairs has embarked on an ambitious programme to […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers says it rejects the gradual privatisation and liberalisation of the country’s electricity grid. President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the Eskom Restructuring Task Team phase one report, as government looks to establish an independent transmission system operator. NUM’s spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, says transferring transmission assets away from Eskom risks fragmentation, […]
# The Motor Transport Workers Union South Africa has condemned the continued bombing and violent attacks on cash-in-transit workers and vehicles, and the unacceptable risks its members are being forced to face while executing their duties. Two security officers were shot and killed, and one injured during a robbery in Mamelodi, Tshwane, on Monday. Two […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare sê hy bly uiters bekommerd oor strukturele swakhede wat steeds die Ondersoekdirektoraat Teen Korrupsie, IDAC, se onafhanklikheid ondermyn. Dit volg na onthullings oor IDAC-operasies by die Madlanga-kommissie. Die vakbond-woordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê die direktoraat rapporteer regstreeks aan die minister van Justisie, en dit wek kommer oor sy onafhanklikheid en ondermyn […]
# ‘n Russiese hommeltuig wat Moldawië se lugruim binnegedring het, het amper ‘n vliegtuig met die Oekraïnse president Volodymyr Zelensky aan boord getref. Dit het die vertrek van die vliegtuig vertraag. Zelensky het Dinsdagaand van Moldawië na Oslo in Noorweë vertrek vir die begrafnis van Koning Harald gister. Die hommeltuig het na wat berig word […]
# Tennis: Die tweemalige Grand Slam-kampioen, Elena Rybakina van Kazakstan, vervang Aryna Sabalenka van Belarus Maandag as die wêreld-nommer-een nadat sy die Amerikaanse Ope se halfeindronde gehaal het. Sy het die Chinese kwalifiseerder Zheng Qinwen verslaan en speel nou teen die Amerikaner Coco Gauff, wat Mirra Andreeva van Rusland geklop het. Die topgekeurde man, Alexander […]
# KwaZulu-Natal Police have arrested a 40-year-old woman in connection with the murder of musician Warrick “DJ Warras” Stock. This brings to three the number of suspects apprehended. Stock was shot dead in December last year, outside a hijacked building in the Johannesburg CBD. Last month, Mozambican Armando Pacula, the confessed gunman, was sentenced to […]
