# AfriForum has accused the City of Johannesburg of obstructing meaningful public participation in the budget process. This is over the metro’s refusal to disclose the basis for the proposed 65.6-percent increase in the water demand management levy charged to households. Currently, domestic users pay 65-rand-8-cents, but the proposed increase will see households pay 107-rand-74-cents […]
# The City of Tshwane has welcomed the ruling handed down by the High Court in Pretoria relating to property developer George Asaba’s illegal Pretoria West building. The court has granted the metro the authority to demolish the unlawfully constructed multi-storey building in Proclamation Hill. Mayoral committee member for Corporate and Shared Services, Flora Monama, […]
# AfriForum has warned the Gauteng Department of Transport to halt its planned rollout of new number plates or face legal action. The civil rights organisation argues the project should be suspended until the Competition Tribunal completes its case against three manufacturers accused of fixing plate prices. AfriForum’s Louis Boshoff says the government has not […]
# Corruption Watch has urged government to urgently strengthen accountability and public participation in the fight against corruption. In its 2025 annual report, the organisation received more than two-thousand-200 complaints last year, with fraud, bribery and maladministration among the top cases reported. Policing remained the most complained-about sector, while Gauteng recorded the highest number of […]
# Corruption Watch het die regering versoek om dringend aanspreeklikheid en openbare deelname te versterk in die stryd teen korrupsie. Die organisasie sê in sy 2025-jaarverslag hy het verlede jaar meer as twee-duisend-200 klagtes ontvang, met bedrog, omkopery en wanadministrasie van die belangrikstes. Daar word steeds die meeste oor wetstoepassing gekla, terwyl Gauteng die hoogste […]
# Die saak teen die vermeende politieke tussenganger Brown Mogotsi is tot Donderdag uitgestel vir die bevestiging van sy adres. Mogotsi, wat vandag in die Johannesburgse Landdroshof verskyn het, staan tereg op aanklagte van regsverydeling en vuurwapenverwante oortredings. Die staat beweer hy het ’n sluipmoordpoging op homself nagemaak en het probeer om ‘n ondersoekbeampte om […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reguleringsowerheid vir Gesondheidsprodukte het ‘n onwettige vervaardigingsaanleg vir gewigsverliesmedisyne in Silverton, Pretoria, gesluit na klagtes oor ongereguleerde vervaardiging. Die fabriek het semaglutied en tirzepatide sonder behoorlike magtiging vervaardig. Woordvoerder, Mokgadi Fafudi, sê inspekteurs en die Suid-Afrikaanse Aptekersraad, het tydens ‘n klopjag onverklaarde aktiewe bestanddele en produkte ontdek. Sy sê die operasie was […]
# AfriForum het die Gautengse Departement van Vervoer gewaarsku om sy beplande nuwe nommerplaatprojek te staak of regstappe te verwag. Die burgerregte-organisasie voer aan die projek moet opgeskort word tot die Mededingingstribunaal sy saak voltooi het teen drie vervaardigers wat beskuldig word van prysvasstelling vir nommerplate. Louis Boshoff van AfriForum sê die regering was nie […]
# The case against alleged political fixer Brown Mogotsi has been postponed to Thursday for verification of his address. Mogotsi appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court today. He faces charges including defeating the ends of justice and firearm-related offences. The state alleges he staged an assassination attempt on himself and tried to bribe an investigating […]
