# Minister of Correctional Services Pieter Groenewald has suspended four high-ranking department officials, pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of fraud related to a coal supply tender. A criminal case has been registered with the Hawks. Minister Groenewald says a multi-layered forensic audit is being launched independently, which will map out every discrepancy within the tender […]
# The UK will ban the import of goods from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband says there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler “terrorists”. The sanctions also include a new ban on arms licences and personal sanctions against key individuals […]
# ActionSA has promised free weekday MyCiTi bus trips for Cape Town residents if elected in the 4 November local government elections. The party proposes a tourist levy of about 100-rand per night on short-term accommodation to help fund the service. It also plans to introduce a MyCape Card to link MyCiTi, trains and minibus […]
# The Department of Health says more than 55-thousand people have started using lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable medication to prevent HIV. The programme has been rolled out at 360 public health facilities across six provinces, with women making up 71-percent of those receiving the injection. Gauteng has recorded the highest number of injections, followed by […]
# Die Departement van Gesondheid sê meer as 55-duisend mense het begin om lenakapavir te gebruik, ‘n inspuitbare medikasie wat twee keer per jaar toegedien word om MIV te voorkom. Die program is by 360 openbare gesondheidsfasiliteite in ses provinsies bekendgestel, met vroue wat 71-persent van die ontvangers verteenwoordig. Gauteng het die hoogste aantal inspuitings […]
# Golden Arrow-busdienste het die Kaapstadse Arbeidshof genader om ‘n beplande staking deur die Nasionale Vakbond vir Alle Sektore vanaf Donderdag te stop. Die vakbond sê die lede sal van middernag af staak oor verskeie kwessies, insluitend dissiplinêre prosesse. Die busmaatskappy betwis die bewerings en respekteer werkers se reg op wettige arbeidsoptrede, terwyl hulle ook […]
# ActionSA het gratis MyCiTi-busritte op weeksdae vir inwoners van Kaapstad belowe indien die party in die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing van 4 November verkies word. Die party stel ‘n toeristeheffing van ongeveer ‘n 100-rand per nag op korttermynverblyf voor om die diens te help finansier. Hulle beplan ook om ‘n MyCape-kaart in te stel om MyCiTi, […]
# Motorsport: New Zealand driver Liam Lawson will again drive Isack Hadjar’s Red Bull in this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid after the Frenchman failed to recover from a wrist injury which kept him out of the previous two Formula One races. Lawson’s place at Racing Bulls will be taken by Japanese driver Yuki […]
# Cricket: Australia will introduce private investment in its lucrative Big Bash T20 league from the 2027/28 season, starting with the sale of the Melbourne Renegades. Cricket Australia says pending the result of that sale, it will consider placing other clubs on the market under a self-determination model. Renegades, which won the competition in the […]
