# The DA has urged Parliament to hold Eskom and regulators accountable over pollution at the Kusile power station in Mpumalanga. According to the party, a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment found that pollution limits were breached and enforcement was weak. The DA’s Kevin Mileham wants an urgent joint parliamentary hearing to establish whether the […]
# Statistics South Africa says civil debt summonses fell by 0.8-percent between April and June compared with the same period last year. However, debt judgements increased by 9.9-percent. Stats SA’s Vhonani Kwinda says the figures suggest that although fewer new debt summonses were issued, more debt cases resulted in court judgements and the amounts involved […]
# Union federation Cosatu, Solidarity, the Canning Fruit Producers’ Association, together with fruit producers, are calling on Premier Foods to keep its Tulbagh fruit canning factory in the Western Cape open. Cosatu’s Malvern de Bruyn says the closure would affect 424 factory workers, hundreds of fruit producers and thousands of other people whose livelihoods depend […]
# Discovery CEO Adrian Gore says South Africa must achieve economic growth of at least three-percent to create jobs and reduce unemployment. Speaking at the launch of phase three of the government-business partnership in Johannesburg, Gore said progress has been made in ending load-shedding, improving logistics and restoring investor confidence, but growth remains too slow. […]
# Rugby: The Bulls-15 have included three uncapped players in their squad for tomorrow night’s Currie Cup match against the Stormers-23 at Loftus, with the hosts looking for their first victory of the season. Loosehead prop Arno Gustafson and outside centre Pieter van der Merwe will make their debuts in the starting team, and hooker […]
# Rugby: Springbok-afrigter Rassie Erasmus het Suid-Afrika se ondersteuners gevra om die All Blacks se haka te respekteer in môre se toets in Johannesburg. Hy wil hê die verwagte partydige skare moet stilbly terwyl die teenstanders hul tradisionele voorwedstryd-ritueel op Ellispark uitvoer. Dit volg nadat die dreunsang “olé, olé” die Nieu-Seelandse uitdaging oordonder het tydens […]
# AfriForum sê die energiereguleerder Nersa se plan om sleutelprestasie-aanwysers vir munisipale elektrisiteitsverspreiders in te stel, sal nie diensleweringsprobleme oplos tensy bestaande reëls afgedwing word nie. Morné Mostert van die organisasie sê Nersa moet swak prestasie ondersoek, lisensievoorwaardes afdwing en tegniese kontroles uitvoer:
# Rugby: Rea Vaya gaan spesiale busdienste aanbied vir toeskouers wat Saterdag die Springbokke te wedstryd teen die All Blacks op Ellispark in Johannesburg bywoon. Geleentheidsbusse sal een-uur af op verskeie roetes na die stadion beweeg, met terugkeerdienste wat elke vyf minute na die wedstryd sal vertrek tot 8-uur die aand. Ondersteuners word aangemoedig om […]
# Die uitvoerende hoof van Discovery, Adrian Gore, sê Suid-Afrika moet ekonomiese groei van minstens drie-persent behaal om werk te skep en werkloosheid te verminder. Gore het tydens die bekendstelling van fase drie van die vennootsksp tussen die regering en nywerhede in Johannesburg gesê vordering is gemaak met die beëindiging van beurtkrag, die verbetering van […]
