# The GOOD Party is calling on the government to immediately remove all pre-qualification barriers to accessing the Social Relief of Distress grant. The party says the South African Social Security Agency continues to delay or deny SRD payments, even to approved beneficiaries, due to technical barriers such as unverified banking details or pending identity […]
# Johannesburg Water says it will invest more than 800-million-rand in sustainable solutions to address ongoing challenges with its Commando system infrastructure. The system lacks adequate reservoirs, bulk lines and pump stations, making it extremely vulnerable to service interruptions. The Commando system supplies water to communities, including Brixton and Crosby. Johannesburg Water says it has […]
# Former US vice president Kamala Harris has described former president Joe Biden’s decision to seek a second term as reckless. In an extract from her book 107 Days, she says this wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego or ambition. Harris says part of the problem was a Biden team […]
# The DA is calling on minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, to table the long-promised Whistleblower Protections Bill in Parliament without delay. The party’s Glynnis Breytenbach says the brutal murder of Bouwer van Niekerk, shot dead at his law firm while working to expose corruption, has confirmed that South Africans are now […]
# Atletiek: Suid-Afrika se naelloopsensasie, Bayanda Walaza, moes aan die Wêreld-atletiekkampioenskap onttrek wat die naweek in Tokio, Japan, begin. Die 19-jarige atleet het verlede maand sy been beseer op die laaste Diamantliga-byeenkoms in Zürich, Switserland. Atletiek Suid-Afrika sê die besluit om Walaza te onttrek is in die beste belang van die atleet en die nasionale […]
# The GOOD Party says there is no proper plan in Cape Town to deal with gang violence. Eighty-one-percent of all murders in the province occur within the City of Cape Town. Gang-related murders continue to drive violence, making up one in five killings. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says that over a year since […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Higher Education has welcomed minister of Higher Education, Buti Manamela’s swift intervention at the College of Cape Town. The minister has established a task team to investigate the governance crisis at the college, including allegations of unfair labour practices, abuse of power, misconduct, and wasteful and irregular expenditure. The committee […]
# Die Russiese ministerie van Buitelandse Sake sê sy hommeltuie het ʼn groot aanval op militêre fasiliteite in die weste van Oekraïne uitgevoer, maar het nie beplan om enige teikens in Pole te tref nie. Minstens 19 Russiese hommeltuie het Dinsdagaand Warskou se lugruim binnegebring tydens aanvalle in westelike Oekraïne. Dis die eerste keer dat […]
# Die EFF-leier Julius Malema eis dat die KwaZulu-Natalse polisiekommissaris, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, onmiddellik gedagvaar word om voor die parlementêre ad hoc-komitee wat polisiekorrupsie ondersoek, te verskyn. Die komitee oorweeg om sy opdrag te verander wat hom sal toelaat om bewyse van ander getuies te kry voor dié van Mkhwanazi, wat die eerste getuie op die […]
