# The Gauteng Education Department says funding to schools of specialisation has been reduced due to broader budgetary constraints. Since 2022, the department has slashed funding to schools of specialisation from 69.29-million-rand in 2022 to just over 13-million in 2024, representing a decrease of 81.36-percent. The department’s spokesperson, Steve Mabona, says that as more schools […]
# Die Stad Ekurhuleni het ‘n behuisingsprojek van een-duisend-200-eenhede aangekondig wat ten doel het om inwoners van die Marikana-informele nedersetting by te staan. Hierdie projek volg nadat ‘n brand ses lewens geëis het. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Menslike Nedersettings, Kgopelo Hollo, sê die projek in Langaville-uitbreiding 12 sal langdurige behuisingsuitdagings aanpak terwyl hy grootmaat-infrastruktuur verskaf om […]
# The City of Ekurhuleni has announced a one-thousand-200-unit housing project aimed at benefiting residents of the Marikana informal settlement. This initiative follows a fire that claimed six lives in the settlement. Ekurhuleni Human Settlements mayoral committee member Kgopelo Hollo said the Langaville Extension 12 project will address long-standing housing challenges while providing bulk infrastructure […]
# Die GOOD-party sê nuwe voorwaardes wat deur die Nasionale Tesourie op maatskaplike toelaes ingestel word, is haglik en skadelik vir weerlose burgers. Hierdie reëls sluit in maandelikse banktjeks, biometriese siftingstoetse en uitgebreide dataverifikasies wat miljoene kan verhinder om noodsaaklike toelaes te ontvang. Dit kom ten spyte van die Hooggeregshof se uitspraak in Pretoria wat […]
# The GOOD Party says new conditions imposed by the National Treasury on social grants are punitive and harmful to poor citizens. These rules include monthly bank checks, biometric screenings, and extensive data verifications that could block millions from receiving essential grants. This comes despite the High Court’s ruling in Pretoria declaring similar measures unconstitutional. […]
# Die minister van Menslike Nedersettings, Thembi Simelane, het provinsies aangespoor om die opgradering van informele nedersettings voorrang te gee ná ‘n brand in die Marikana-nedersetting in Boksburg waarin ses mense gesterf het. ‘n Sewe-jarige is gered en met ernstige brandwonde in die hospitaal opgeneem. Simelane noem die tragedie ‘n waarskuwing en het planne uitgelig […]
# Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane has urged provinces to prioritise upgrading informal settlements following a fire in Boksburg’s Marikana settlement that killed six people. A seven-year-old was rescued and has been hospitalised with severe burns. She called the tragedy a wake-up call. Simelane highlighted plans to upgrade over four-thousand informal settlements by 2029 and […]
# Die mynwerkersvakbond AMCU veroordeel Sibanye-Stillwater ten sterkste nadat 260 werkers ondergronds vasgekeer was in sy Kloof-myn in Gauteng. Die maatskappy het intussen bevestig alle mynwerkers is gered en geen beserings is aangemeld nie. AMCU se president, Joseph Mathunjwa, eis elke operasionele mynskag moet volgens wet ‘n ontsnappingsroete hê. Die vakbond vra dat Sibanye-Stillwater aanspreeklik […]
# Die Gautengse Gesondheidsdepartement sê hy is daartoe verbind om kankerbehandelingsdienste in die provinsie te verbeter om aan die groeiende vraag na radioterapiedienste te voldoen. Woordvoerder Motalatale Modiba sê dit sluit belegging in in die uitbreiding van infrastruktuur en gevorderde toerusting om kankerbehandeling te verbeter en tydige toegang tot sorg te verseker:
