# The Public Servants Association says reports suggesting that the Department of Correctional Services cannot account for some parolees under its supervision warrant urgent clarification. According to reports, the country’s correctional system has lost track of nearly 28-thousand absconded parolees, including convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers. PSA’s Claude Naicker says history has, on several […]
# President Donald Trump van Amerika sê hulle gaan binne die volgende twee weke ʼn algehele oorwinning oor Iran verklaar. Hy het herhaaldelik gesê hy verwag die konflik sal binnekort eindig, maar dit het tot toenemende spanning gelei. Trump het ook telkens gewaarsku militêre optrede sal verskerp indien Teheran nie instem tot ʼn ooreenkoms nie. […]
# Union federation Cosatu has welcomed Cabinet’s decision to officially approve the complete write-off of all outstanding and unpaid historical e-toll debt in Gauteng. This follows the government’s decision to discontinue the electronic tolling system on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project, which took effect on 12 April 2024. Cosatu’s Amos Monyela says the scrapping of e-tolls […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Police has welcomed the suspension of an additional five senior police officers in connection with the controversial 360-million-rand Medicare24 tender. A total of 14 police officers have been arrested over this tender awarded to attempted murder-accused Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala’s company. Committee chairperson Ian Cameron says the suspensions are a necessary step towards […]
# Road running: University of Pretoria master’s student in Agricultural Plant Pathology, Qiniso Sithole, is preparing to run in the Comrades Marathon on Sunday to support the institution’s Degrees Delivered campaign. The initiative is aimed at helping graduates clear historical student debt and access the degree certificates they have already earned. Sithole says not being […]
# Die Departement van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding sê die regering is verbind tot die naskoolse onderwys- en opleidingsektor se pogings om vaardighede na die mense te bring. Die regering wil toegang vir alle studente uitbrei, ʼn sake-vriendelike omgewing vir privaat beleggings in onderwys skep, en vernuwing bevorder om beter op behoeftes van die arbeidsmark […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare sê Suid-Afrika se migrasieprobleme hou verband met groter sosio-ekonomiese toestande op die Afrika-vasteland. Dit sluit in werkloosheid, armoede, konflik en beperkte ekonomiese geleenthede. Dit volg na toenemende kommer oor betogings teen immigrante en die uitwerking wat dit op verhoudings reg oor die vasteland het. Die vakbondwoordvoerder, Claude Naicker, sê besprekings […]
# Die GOOD-party sê die Kaapstadse burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, se seremoniële oorhandiging van huise is ʼn wanvoorstelling. GOOD se woordvoerder, Roscoe Palm, sê die Fruit and Veg-perseel in Roelandstraat is in 2017 aangekondig en toe weer tydens ʼn openbare geleentheid in 2022. Hy sê Hill-Lewis het verlede jaar weer aangekondig dat dit vir maatskaplike behuising […]
# Western Cape Mobility MEC, Isaac Sileku, says the newly launched GO GEORGE Route 11, between Thembalethu and the Garden Route Mall, will improve public transport access. This is the third GO GEORGE route serving Thembalethu. Sileku says the service reduces the need for multiple bus transfers, and improves overall access to opportunities such as […]
