# Die DA in Tshwane eis dat die aansoekstelsel vir ongestruktureerde aanvullende diensdata vir aansoekers van die Uitgebreide Openbare Werke-program heringestel moet word. Die stelsel moes oplossings bied vir ernstige probleme met die insameling van data met die hand. Thabisile Vilakazi van die DA sê dit sluit in vertragings in data-insameling as gevolg van beperkte […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has rejected mayor Dada Morero’s call to expropriate inner-city buildings without compensation. The party says the real solution lies in enforcing existing bylaws and addressing the metro’s failure to maintain over 28-thousand properties, many now hijacked and unsafe. The DA’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku urges the metro to allow the private sector […]
# The City of Johannesburg has expressed alarm at the recent surge in fire-related incidents across the metro. On Monday, a house fire in Mayfair killed four young children. Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi, says residents must be careful when using heating devices, including cooking devices and heaters, as colder winter weather approaches:
# US president Donald Trump says the G20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg in November will be meaningless without the participation of America. In April, he said could not be expected to attend the summit while the South African government, he claims, was expropriating white-owned land and persecuting the descendants of white settlers. Speaking during the […]
# Students from Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University in Prayagraj, India, will participate in a 3–to 4-week academic exchange with the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The programme will offer seminars, workshops, moot courts, and human rights law clinics in efforts to foster academic and cultural immersion. Vice-Chancellor professor Usha Tandon highlighted the […]
# Rugby: The World Rugby Council has approved the global trial of the 20-minute red card, despite resistance from several international unions, including France and Ireland. This comes after it was tried out in several competitions in the northern hemisphere season. The law allows a player who has a committed an act of foul play […]
# Die Stad Kaapstad verwelkom die lewenslange vonnisse wat die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof opgelê het aan vier mense wat skuldig bevind is aan die moord op die wetstoepassers, Simtembile Nyangiwe en Jan Nieuwenhuys. Die beamptes is in September 2019 doodgeskiet toe hulle werkers vergesel het wat opknappingswerk in die Samora Machel-plakkerskamp gedoen het. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir […]
# Die sekretaris-generaal van die Verenigde Nasies, António Guterres, het gewaarsku dat die verlies aan bioverskeidenheid ‘n wêreldwye krisis is wat geen land kan ignoreer nie. Vandag is Internasionale Biologiese Verskeidenheidsdag met die tema Harmonie met die natuur en volhoubare ontwikkeling. ‘n Miljoen spesies staan gevaar om uitgewis te word terwyl menslike bedrywighede 75-persent van […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Gauteng het ʼn klag teen die Mogale City-munisipaliteit by die Menseregtekommissie ingedien. Dit is omdat hy versuim om te keer dat rioolwater in ʼn stormwaterdrein stort. Amy Steyn van die VF Plus sê sedert November verlede jaar vloei riool uit ʼn mangat op die hoek van Naudé- en Schoemanstraat in […]
