# The Gauteng Department of Human Settlements has recognised that the housing backlog remains a pressing issue, with over 750-thousand approved beneficiaries in Gauteng still awaiting allocation. The department’s spokesperson, Tahir Sema says over seven-thousand-200 RDP units were delivered in the last financial year. He says in the current 2025/2026 financial year, 5-billion-rand has been […]
# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says it stands in militant opposition to the ongoing bloodbath of retrenchments across several sectors in the country. ArcellorMittal SA is set to shut down its long steel business by the end of September, resulting in three-thousand-500 job losses. Ford Motor Company SA also plans to […]
# Die DA in Gauteng sê die gemengde boodskappe van premier Panyaza Lesufi en die LUR vir Menslike Nedersettings, Tasneem Motara, oor die opgradering van plakkerskampe verwar inwoners. Lesufi het erken daar is ʼn skerp toename in plakkerskampe in die provinsie. Intussen spog Motara oor die suksesvolle opgradering van nege plakkerskampe deur die program vir opgradering van informele nedersettings. […]
# ‘n Navorser aan die Universiteit van Pretoria, Hanlie Smuts, sê die koste van die berging van die wêreld se toenemende donker data – data wat gebêre maar nooit gebruik word nie – laat ‘n beduidende koolstofvoetspoor. Datasentrums is wêreldwyd die oorsaak van sowat twee-persent van koolstof- of kweekhuisgas-vrystellings, wat na verwagting teen 2030 sal […]
# Altesaam 346 verdagtes is tydens Operasie Shanela in Silverton en Villieria in Tshwane weens verskeie misdade gearresteer. Hulle oortredings sluit in moord, poging tot moord, verkragting, gewapende roof en geslagsgeweld. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Johan van Dyk, sê 44 gedokumenteerde buitelandse burgers is ook aangekeer en aan immigrasie-owerhede oorhandig:
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens het ‘n geel vlak 2-waarskuwing uitgereik vir hewige donderstorms met swaar reën in groot dele van Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo en KwaZulu-Natal wat tot oorstromings van paaie en nedersettings kan lei. Inwoners in laagliggende gebiede word aangeraai om bykomende voorsorgmaatreëls te tref. Die Weerdiens sê die donderstorms kan lewensgevaarlik wees omdat die […]
# Die Universiteit van Johannesburg, in samewerking met Absa Business Banking en Qhubeka Charity, het onlangs fietse geskenk aan 129 graad 11-leerders van Hanyani Secondary School buite Thohoyandou in Limpopo. Die fietsprojek spruit voort uit die universiteit se Maatskaplike Impakprojek om in infrastruktuur-behoeftes van inwoners in gebiede met min hulpbronne te voorsien. Die instelling se […]
# The DA in Gauteng says the mixed messaging from premier Panyaza Lesufi and Human Settlements MEC, Tasneem Motara, on the upgrading of informal settlements, has left residents confused. Lesufi has admitted that there is a mushrooming of informal settlements in the province. Meanwhile, Motara has boasted about the successful upgrading of nine informal settlements through the Upgrading of Informal Settlements […]
# University of Pretoria researcher, professor Hanlie Smuts, says the cost of storing the world’s constantly growing dark data, which is data that is stored but never used, is creating a significant carbon footprint. Globally, data centres already account for approximately two-percent of carbon or greenhouse gas emissions, and this is expected to double by 2030 […]
