# Die Vryheidsfront Plus in Johannesburg het die burgemeester, Dada Morero, gewaarsku die metro se groeiende finansiële las en verbrokkelende infrastruktuur belemmer inwoners en belastingbetalers se dienslewering. Die party sê die metro het 72-miljard-rand in uitstaande skuld en ‘n skokkende agterstand van 220-miljard-rand in infrastruktuur-instandhouding. Franco de Lange van die VF Plus sê die Raad […]
# Die DA in Gauteng wil dringend met die waarnemende minister van polisie, Firoz Cachalia, skakel om sekere wetstoepassings-magte na provinsies af te wentel vir ‘n doeltreffender misdaadvoorkomingstrategie. Woordvoerder Crezane Bosch sê die jongste misdaadstatistieke vir die vierde kwartaal wat die polisie vrygestel het, toon dat 54,8-persent van alle ontvoeringsake wat nasionaal aangeteken is, in […]
# 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 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 Freedom Front Plus in Johannesburg has warned mayor, Dada Morero, that the metro’s growing financial burden and crumbling infrastructure are hampering service delivery to residents and ratepayers. The party says the metro has R72-billion-rand in outstanding debt and a shocking 220-billion-rand infrastructure maintenance backlog. FF Plus Franco de Lange says this week, Council is scheduled to consider […]
# COSATU in Gauteng has expressed deep concern and outrage following the findings by the Public Protector that the Departments of Health and Infrastructure Development unduly delayed repairs to Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital after the devastating fire of April 2021. COSATU chairperson, Amos Monyela, says public institutions entrusted with safeguarding healthcare infrastructure must be held […]
# RISE Mzansi het aangekondig Lukhona Mnguni is sy burgemeesterskandidaat vir die Stad Johannesburg in die komende plaaslike regeringsverkiesing in November vanjaar. Mnguni sê tot dusver is die Johannesburgse burgemeestersveldtog gelei deur twee mense wie se beste jare reeds verby is en wat ‘n droom van vergange dae aan inwoners wil verkoop eerder as een […]
# RISE Mzansi has announced Lukhona Mnguni’s as its mayoral candidate for the City of Johannesburg for the upcoming local government elections in November this year. Mnguni says until now, the Johannesburg mayoral campaign has been fronted by two people way past their prime, selling residents a dream of days gone by instead of what […]