# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Gauteng sê daar is blykbaar geen einde aan die finansiële ellende van die Emfuleni-munisipaliteit nie, want hy kan tans nie sy elektrisiteitskontrakteurs en verskaffers betaal nie. ʼn Gebied in Vanderbijlpark is reeds 18 dae sonder krag, en elektrisiteitskontrakteurs weier om aan die probleem te werk omdat hulle nie betaal word […]
# In the past week, the City of Cape Town’s enforcement agencies made 273 arrests, down from the previous Easter period. The Public Emergency Communication Centre recorded two-thousand-and-86 incidents over the long weekend, a 23-percent drop from last year. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says he is grateful for the decline in cases […]
# Die DA in Wes Kaap sê hy sal voortgaan om oorsig uit te oefen oor die proaktiewe padveiligheidsprojekte van die provinsie se Departement van Mobiliteit. Altesaam 22 sterftes is oor die Paasnaweek op die provinsie se paaie aangemeld, teenoor die 26 van verlede jaar. Nomafrench Mbombo van die party sê dié aansienlike daling in sterftes is slegs moontlik deur […]
# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services has expressed concern about the overcrowding and maintenance delays at the Pollsmoor Correctional Centre in Cape Town. The remand detainees facility is 234-percent overcrowded while the female section is 248-percent overcrowded. The committee’s chairperson, Kgomotso Ramolobeng, says that during their oversight visit, they also saw dilapidated parts of the facility, […]
# The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate says that with winter approaching, work is being done to prepare infrastructure for the anticipated rains. More than 78-million-rand has been allocated to proactively maintain sewer systems. The metro has also invested in 23 new sewer response jet-vac trucks, valued at 53-million-rand. The metro says […]
# Die Stad Ekurhuleni se brandweerdiens is tans op die toneel van nog ‘n moontlike brand by die Tembisa Provinsiale Tersiêre Hospitaal se hoof-buitepasiënt-afdeling. Saterdag het die hospitaal se ongevalle- en noodeenheid aan die brand geraak, met meer as 80 pasiënte wat ontruim is. Die woordvoerder van die Gautengse Gesondheidsdepartement, Motalatale Modiba, sê hulle wag […]
# US biologist Camille Parmesan has won the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change for revealing how climate change is displacing species. Her pioneering research has been able to establish that rising temperatures have left a globally coherent fingerprint on biodiversity. The Climate Change and Environmental Sciences committee says Parmesan’s work has […]
# City of Ekurhuleni’s Fire Department is currently attending to what looks like another fire incident at the Tembisa Provincial Tertiary Hospital’s main Outpatient Department. On Saturday, the hospital’s accident and emergency unit caught alight, with over 80 patients being evacuated. Gauteng Health Department’s spokesperson, Motalatale Modiba, says they are waiting on more information from […]
# Leerders met outisme in Suid-Afrikaanse skole met gebrekkige hulpbronne trek voordeel uit iSchoolAfrica se iPad-leerprogram vir gestremdes. Die inisiatief, wat by Via Nova School in Pretoria bekendgestel is, voorsien leerders van aanpasbare gereedskap wat kommunikasie en sosiale ontwikkeling ondersteun. Spesiale iPads en ondersteunende toepassings help leerders om hindernisse te oorkom sonder duur toestelle. Die […]
