# Die verkiesingsgeskil in Zambië het verder verskerp nadat howe gesluit is, op die laaste dag vir die indiening van ‘n hofgeding teen president Hakainde Hichilema se herverkiesing. Regslui in Lusaka is deur gewapende mans by hofgeboue weggewys, met polisieversperrings wat toegang verhoed. Die opposisiekandidaat Brian Mundubile, wat tweede geëindig het in die verkiesing op […]
# Sokker: Die minister van Sport, Kuns en Kultuur, Gayton McKenzie, eis die terugbetaling van die 13-miljoen-rand wat aan die Suid-Afrikaanse Sokkervereniging toegeken is vir die implementering van die video-assistent-skeidsregter. McKenzie sê Safa het nie daarin geslaag om hierdie seisoen VAR in te stel nie, al het hy die fondse ontvang wat bedoel was om […]
# Controversial businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala has told the Madlanga Commission that he remains in the dark and has not had sufficient opportunity to fully consider his legal team’s arguments. Matlala appeared at the Madlanga Commission after previously declining to answer questions related to the 228-million-rand SAPS Medicare24 tender. Commission chairperson Mbuyiseli Madlanga rejected advocate […]
# Die leier van die DA, Geordin Hill-Lewis, sê die ANC kan nie vertrou word om sukkelende munisipaliteite te herstel wat hyself toegelaat het om in duie te stort nie. Hy glo nie die ANC se belofte om munisipaliteite binne 100-dae om te keer en kritieke vakatures binne 120-dae te vul nie. Hill-Lewis sê die […]
# DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says the ANC cannot be trusted to fix the struggling municipalities it has allowed to collapse. According to Hill-Lewis, the ANC’s promises to turn municipalities around within 100 days and fill critical vacancies within 120 days lack credibility. He states the DA would focus on better management, fighting corruption, protecting […]
# Die Departement van Korrektiewe Dienste betwis bewerings dat Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala se regspan nie genoeg tyd vir raadpleging gehad het nie. ‘n Getuienisleier van die Madlanga-kommissie, Alida Hassim, het korrespondensie voorgelees wat aandui die prokureurs het drie dae lank raadplegings gevoer. Sy prokureur, Fatima Missi, sê toegang is beïnvloed deur Korrektiewe Dienste se prosesse. […]
# Infrastructure South Africa says the country faces a R1.6-trillion funding gap for major infrastructure projects. Addressing delegates at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa, currently underway in Cape Town, Infrastructure South Africa head, Mameetse Masemola, says municipalities need financing to address ageing water, electricity, road and waste infrastructure. She added that as government […]
# Five accused linked to an alleged 600-million-rand drug manufacturing operation in Musina, Limpopo, have had their case postponed to Friday. The matter was delayed to allow for further investigations and to secure a Spanish-language interpreter. The accused include two Mexican nationals, two Zimbabweans and a Malawian citizen. They were arrested during a Hawks-led operation […]
# Die politieke ontleder Dirk Kotzé sê die vakbondfederasie COSATU se voortgesette steun vir die ANC sal ‘n beduidende terugslag wees vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party, wat voorberei om onafhanklik aan die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing deel te neem. COSATU het egter sy finale besluit uitgestel. Kotzé het aan die SABC gesê die SAKP se onafhanklike veldtog […]
