# Die Stad Tshwane het meer as 4,3-miljard-rand in skuld afgeskryf met sy aansporings- en skuldverligtingsprogram. Die Stad se woordvoerder, Lindela Mashigo, sê meer as 2,4-miljard-rand van bykans 85-duisend behoeftiges en huishoudings met kinders aan die hoof, is afgeskryf. Nog 1,8-miljard-rand is geskrap vanaf ongebruikte rekeninge. Mashigo sê die stad het tydens die proses 81-miljoen-rand […]
# ActionSA sê dringende hervormings word benodig om die mislukkings van die regering van nasionale eenheid na sy eerste jaar uit die weg te ruim. Die party het die regering ‘n druipsyfer gegee met die hersiening van sy vertoning in sy eerste jaar, en verwys na oormatige besteding, swak aanspreeklikheid en etiese mislukkings. Athol Trollip […]
# Die kripto-maatskappy Luno Africa sê digitale bateriglyne in Suid-Afrika kan ten minste 540-miljoen-rand in bykomende belastinginkomste genereer, indien dit bygewerk word. Luno Africa se hoofbestuurder Marius Reitz sê dit word bereken op slegs een-persent van die institusionele fondse wat in kripto-elektroniese fondsoordragte belê is. Reitz bepleit regulatoriese duidelikheid wat kripto-geldeenhede as bates binne die […]
# The North West Agriculture Department has confirmed a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in JB Marks and Madibeng Municipality in the Doctor Kenneth Kaunda District. Infected animals were traced to farms now under quarantine, with tests confirming serotype 2 and serotype 3 strains. Linked farms, including those connected to Gauteng, are also under precautionary lockdown. Over […]
# Die DA sê Liam Jacobs is nie meer ‘n lid nie, nadat hy in beeldmateriaal van die Patriotic Alliance verskyn het, wat die onmiddelike beëindiging van sy lidmaatskap beteken. Die voorsitter van die DA se Federale Raad, Helen Zille, het die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering in kennis gestel van sy verwydering uit die […]
# The South African National Defence Force says the first group of soldiers back from the Democratic Republic of Congo has completed demobilisation. Their return followed a ceasefire between M23 rebels and DRC forces. A third group of 248 landed at Bram Fischer Airport in Bloemfontein yesterday and will demobilise at the Tempe Military Base […]
# AfriForum has urged the National Prosecution Authority to ensure harsher copper cable theft sentences and classifying the crime as economic sabotage. AfriForum’s Jacques Broodryk says thieves are crippling infrastructure and leaving communities in the dark. He emphasised the need for custodial sentences and warns that civil society may step in to protect critical services […]
# The Bellville Commercial Crimes Court in the Western Cape has found Platinum Forex boss Colin Davids, his company and marketing manager Derek Bredenkamp guilty of fraud and money laundering. They illegally solicited 329-million-rand in public funds for forex trading, lost 87.5-million-rand, and paid returns using new deposits. The court found they operated without the […]
# Die Stad Kaapstad sê die Wetstoepassingshulpdiens, wat meer as ‘n dekade gelede ontstaan het, is nou ‘n integrale deel van die department se openbare veiligheidsplan. Honderde vrywilligers werk elke maand as lede van die diens. Die Burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Veiligheid en Sekerheid, JP Smith, sê die beamptes werk minstens 16 uur per maand onder toesig […]
