# Young entrepreneurs have urged G20 leaders to accelerate climate action. Over 600 delegates from all G20 countries recently participated in the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance Summit in Gauteng. The summit emphasised tangible outcomes, including the launch of accelerator programmes, policy recommendations, investment opportunities, and a youth economic charter. The Global Young Entrepreneurs Alliance says entrepreneurship […]
# The Forum for South Africa says it has received more than 20-thousand applications for its Job Seekers Assistance Programme in Hammanskraal. The programme was launched last week for young people from Ramotse, Marokolong, Kekana Gardens, and Refilwe. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says this overwhelming response highlights the deep unemployment crisis in the country:
# ActionSA in Johannesburg has expressed concern at mayor Dada Morero’s decision to extend his self-imposed seven-day deadline to deliver water to Coronationville, Westbury and surrounding areas. The mayor last week acknowledged that interventions, including throttling water to other suburbs and diverting it to the Hursthill 1 and 2 reservoirs, have not resulted in the […]
# Die DA veroordeel die Stad Ekurhuleni se onregmatige en ongrondwetlike poging om ʼn privaat eiendom sonder vergoeding te onteien. Volgens die drukgroep, Sakeliga, weier die metro om te betaal vir ʼn eiendom van 34-hektaar in Driefontein waarop hy in 2019 beslag gelê het vir ʼn behuisingsprojek. Op daardie tydstip is die eiendom gewaardeer teen […]
# The Independent Financial Advisors Forum says it is disturbed that the City of Tshwane is proceeding with an irregular and unlawful tender for the appointment of a single medical aid brokerage firm for metro employees. The forum wrote to mayor Nasiphi Moya last month, highlighting that the tender contravenes regulations of the Medical Schemes […]
# The DA has condemned the City of Ekurhuleni’s unlawful and unconstitutional attempt to seize private property without compensation. According to business lobby group Sakeliga, the metro has refused to pay for a 34-hectare property it seized for housing development in Driefontein in 2019. At the time, the property was valued at no less than 30-million-rand, […]
# Die DA in Gauteng het die besluit van die LUR vir Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling, Faith Mazibuko, om voedselbanke te sentraliseer, veroordeel en sê dit het daartoe gelei het dat kinders ly en aan wanvoeding sterf. Die DA se woordvoerder vir Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling in Gauteng, Refiloe Nt’sekhe, sê byna tweeduisend-900 hospitaalgevalle en meer as vyfduisend-600 kliniekgevalle […]
# The DA in Gauteng has denounced Social Development MEC Faith Mazibuko’s decision to centralise food bank operations, saying it has led to children suffering and dying from malnutrition. DA Gauteng Social Development spokesperson Refiloe Nt’sekhe says nearly two-thousand-900 hospital cases and over five-thousand-600 clinic cases of child malnutrition were recorded last year. Nt’sekhe accuses […]
# TEARS Animal Rescue in Sunnydale in Cape Town is appealing for donations after a fire damaged Wendy houses, wooden fencing, and kennels at its premises this week. No animals or humans were harmed, and all dogs received treatment at the onsite clinic. Operations Manager Mandy Store thanked emergency services for their swift response. She […]
