# Union GIWUSA is calling for drastic interest rate cuts and expanded price controls ahead of tomorrow’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting. Spokesperson Mametlwe Sebei says inflation is being driven by global conflict and fuel and electricity price hikes, and not consumer spending. He argues higher interest rates are worsening household debt. Sebei says they want […]
# Ghanaian authorities are today repatriating the first group of its citizens, who have asked to leave South Africa. More than 800 Ghanaians had registered for voluntary evacuation, with 300 departing on a repatriation flight from O.R. Tambo International Airport today. This follows a wave of protests against illegal immigration in South Africa in recent […]
# Die Tshwane-metropolisie en die Nasionale Verkeerspolisie het ʼn gesamentlike operasie op die R80-hoofweg en Bremerstraat uitgevoer en 31 voertuie geskut. Hulle het ook 18 minibusse en vier e-taxi’s geskut wat die Nasionale Wet op Landvervoer oortree het. Die metropolisie se woordvoerder, Puleng Motholo, sê hulle is verbind tot hul mandaat om inwoners se lewens […]
# The Voices Against Evictions Campaign has condemned the Western Cape Department of Human Settlements’ public participation process on the proposed housing legislation as a complete disgrace. Spokesperson Keith Duarte says the decision to hold only one public hearing in Langa for all of Cape Town’s 5.15-million residents, does not come close to meeting the […]
# Rugby: Thirteen-time Super Rugby champions the Crusaders have confirmed former All Blacks assistant coach, Scott Hansen, as their new head coach from next year. He will replace Rob Penney, who will step down at the end of the current campaign after three seasons. Hansen is a former Crusaders player, featuring in their first season […]
# The ANC in Cape Town says it strongly rejects the proposed sale of the metro’s shares of the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The metro’s current shareholding in the CTICC is 72.7-percent, with the Western Cape government holding 22.2-percent and Sunwest International having the remaining 5.1-percent. The ANC’s Judy-Ann Stevens says they are concerned […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare sê hy is bekommerd oor die voortgesette gesprekke rondom die beoogde herposisionering van die Staatsinligtingstegnologie-agentskap. Die Departement van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologieë het vroeër vanjaar ‘n regulasie in die Staatskoerant gepubliseer wat dit vir regeringsinstellings makliker sal maak om IT-stelsels buite SITA aan te skaf. Claude Naicker van die vakbond […]
Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie sê die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo se Ituri-provinsie is nie net die middelpunt van die dodelike Ebola-uitbreking nie, maar ook een van die gebiede wat die swaarste deurloop onder ernstige hongersnood. Volgens die Geïntegreerde Voedselsekuriteitsfase-klassifikasie se jongste inligting staar meer as tien-miljoen mense in Ituri, Noord-Kivu, Suid-Kivu en Tanganjika hongersnood in die gesig. […]
# Waterpolo: Skole Waterpolo Suid-Afrika en Suid-Afrikaanse Waterpolo beplan om formeel saam te werk, wat die skole se deelnamebasis van die sport in lyn bring met nasionale kompetisie- en bestuurstrukture. Die voorgestelde ooreenkoms is daarop gemik om ‘n samehangende en gestruktureerde pad vir waterpolo in die land te skep, wat kontinuïteit van skole tot senior […]
