# Suid-Afrika is vandag en môre gasheer vir die 17de Afrika-streeksronde van die Manfred Lachs Ruimtereg skyn-hofkompetisie in Pretoria. Die kompetisie se tema is – Empowering Africa’s future in Space Governance for Sustainable Space Activities. Die Departement van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging sestreekverteenwoordiger in Afrika vir die kompetisie, Nomfuneko Majaja, sê die beste jong regsdenkers […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has opened a criminal case against the City’s mayoral committee member for Community Development Planning, Thapelo Amad, for discharging a firearm in public. The party’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku says they recently received information from a reliable source that Amad negligently fired shots into the air in Lufhereng, Soweto. She says at […]
# The Gauteng Department of Education acknowledged the delays in the release of school subsidies which were expected to be deposited into the respective school accounts by 15 May. Spokesperson Onwabile Lubhelwana says the department will ensure that the disbursement of the funds will start next month. He says the funds cover essential operational expenses […]
# The minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, says government continues to strengthen its operations to combat organised poaching syndicates. South African authorities seized eight-thousand-686 units of shucked abalone with an estimated street value of approximately 1.6-million-rand in two separate incidents in Partridge Point in Simon’s Town and Grabouw. Three suspects were also arrested. Aucamp […]
# The DA in the Western Cape maintains that safety requires SAPS to implement targeted structural interventions by expanding investigative powers to provinces and municipalities. The latest police crime statistics for the fourth quarter show that murders in the province decreased by 8-percent, from one-thousand-68 cases between January and March last year to 983 cases in […]
# The EFF has condemned the continued refusal by Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management to execute its constitutional responsibility to being accountable for the appointment and remuneration of the Secretary to Parliament, Xolile George. During a recent meeting of the Committee, the party formally requested that the matter be placed on the agenda for […]
# The DA in Gauteng says it will urgently engage acting Police minister Firoz Cachalia to devolve certain policing powers to the provincial level, enabling a more efficient and responsive crime-prevention strategy. The party’s Crezane Bosch says the latest fourth quarter crime statistics released by police revealed that Gauteng accounted for 54.8-percent of all kidnapping cases […]
# The Public Servants Association is calling on government to urgently address the lack of water and sanitation in communities as it undermines dignity and service delivery. Africa Day is celebrated todat under the African Union’s theme, Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems to Achieve the Goals of Agenda 2063. The PSA’s spokesperson Claude […]
# Eskom says as winter season period approach, the power system continues to demonstrate improved resilience, with no power supply interruptions in the current financial year to date. The power entity spokesperson, Daphne Mokwena says Eskom returns over three-thousand-megawatts of generation capacity to the national grid today to strengthen stable electricity supply ahead of weekly peak […]
