# Hong Kong authorities charged seven people and two companies with offenses including manslaughter and conspiracy over the city’s deadliest fire in decades in November last year. The blaze engulfed seven apartment buildings and killed 168 people. Relatives of the victims have been waiting for answers since after the fire shattered the close-knit community of Wang Fuk Court, […]
# Anglo American says a strong junior mining sector is critical to South Africa’s future mining growth, transformation and job creation. Speaking at the Junior Indaba in Johannesburg, senior vice-president for corporate affairs Nevashnee Naicker said junior miners help unlock economic opportunities, hence policy certainty and efficient licensing to attract investment are needed. She reaffirmed […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Landbou sê Suid-Afrika maak goeie vordering met die beheer van bek-en-klouseer. Die agterstand met entstof sal na verwagting teen die middel van dié maand uitgewis wees. Die komitee sê 13,5-miljoen dosisse is bestel, waarvan 11,5-miljoen reeds afgelewer is deur verskaffers in Argentinië en Turkye. Van die jongste 3.5-miljoen dosisse wat […]
# Die Universiteit Stellenbosch het nuwe koshuisreëls ingestel wat die gebruik, besit en rook van dagga in studenteverblyf verbied. Die instelling sê die besluit volg wettige riglyne oor of koshuiskamers as privaat ruimtes beskou kan word, veral as studente kamers of gange deel. Die dekaan van Studente, Leslie van Rooi, sê gedeelde woonplekke voldoen nie […]
# Ten illegal transformers have been dismantled during a major law enforcement operation in Kya Sands, Randburg, in Gauteng, targeting electricity theft and illegal connections. City Power and police conducted the raid in the Msawawa informal settlement, where a suspected syndicate allegedly built an illicit network using stolen infrastructure from City Power and Eskom. Residents […]
# SECTION27 sal namens ‘n ouer van drie leerders die Hooggeregshof in Johannesburg nader om te vra dat kinders wat weens uitstaande skoolgeld by ‘n privaat skool geweier is, weer toegelaat mag word. Die twee Graad 12-leerders en ‘n Graad 4-leerder is gederegistreer van die Onafhanklike Eksamenraad se eksamens en klasse. ‘n Regsassistent, Kholofelo Mphahlele, […]
# Die vakbondfederasie COSATU verwelkom die bekendstelling van Eskom Green. Die toegewyde hernubare energie-bedryfseenheid is ontwerp om die ontwikkeling van grootskaalse hernubare energieprojekte te versnel. COSATU se woordvoerder, Matthew Parks, sê die organisasie bly egter sterk gekant teen enige ontbondeling van Eskom, aangesien dit sy vermoë kan bedreig om energiesekerheid te verskaf. Hy sê Eskom […]
# Resources for Africa’s mining optimist Bernard Swanepoel has called on African governments to create favourable investment, exploration and mining development conditions. Speaking at the Junior Mining Indaba in Johannesburg, Swanepoel said junior miners are responsible for discoveries that become future mines. He warned that exploration capital is highly mobile, hence South Africa must improve […]
# Tax Justice SA founder Yusuf Abramjee says he will not be intimidated after alleged threats against him were revealed before the Madlanga commission. The documents reportedly include WhatsApp messages linked to suspended deputy head of Crime Intelligence, Feroz Khan, and tobacco kingpin Mohamed Sayed, following Abramjee’s allegations of illicit cigarette trade. He says this […]
