# As the City of Tshwane prepares to host the 2025 Urban20 Mayors’ Summit, mayor Nasiphi Moya is calling on residents to join the metro tree-planting campaign. This past weekend, 20 trees were planted at Bokamoso Care Centre in Ga-Rankuwa. The mayor’s spokesperson, Zintle Mahlati, says three years ago, South Africa committed to planting five-million trees in five-years […]
# Die Stad Johannesburg het kommer uitgespreek oor die onlangse vlaag brandvoorvalle reg oor die metro. Maandag is vier jong kinders in ʼn huisbrand in Mayfair dood. Die woordvoerder van Johannesburg se nooddienste, Robert Mulaudzi, sê met die koue winterweer wat naderkom, moet inwoners versigtig wees wanneer hulle verwarmingstoestelle gebruik:
# Die Departement van Gesondheid in Gauteng het die 100-miljoen-rand toewysing van die Nasionale Tesourie om bestaande uitdagings te takel, verwelkom. Die geld is ter ondersteuning van die departement se hernude befondsingsprogram om bestaande noodsaaklike toerusting en masjiene in hospitale op te knap en te vervang. Die woordvoerder van die departement, Motalatale Modiba, sê ‘n […]
# Die Stad Tshwane verwelkom die aanvang van die openbare deelnameproses oor die voorgestelde verhuring van die HB Philips-gebou in Pretoria. Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Korporatiewe en Gedeelde Dienste, Kholofelo Morodi, sê die HB Philips-gebou sal die Julie 2025-eiendomsberaad anker waar meer as 30 waardevolle munisipale bates geadverteer sal word vir verhuring of herontwikkeling. Sy sê […]
# Limpopo police recovered 12 stolen vehicles in a week-long anti-smuggling operation targeting cross-border syndicates. Two key recoveries included one in Musina and another in Polokwane, with one suspect arrested. Police spokesperson Hlulani Mashaba confirmed that the vehicles, stolen in Gauteng, were intercepted in areas including Beitbridge, Mokopane, and Witbank:
# Die DA in Tshwane eis dat die aansoekstelsel vir ongestruktureerde aanvullende diensdata vir aansoekers van die Uitgebreide Openbare Werke-program heringestel moet word. Die stelsel moes oplossings bied vir ernstige probleme met die insameling van data met die hand. Thabisile Vilakazi van die DA sê dit sluit in vertragings in data-insameling as gevolg van beperkte […]
# The DA in Johannesburg has rejected mayor Dada Morero’s call to expropriate inner-city buildings without compensation. The party says the real solution lies in enforcing existing bylaws and addressing the metro’s failure to maintain over 28-thousand properties, many now hijacked and unsafe. The DA’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku urges the metro to allow the private sector […]
# The City of Johannesburg has expressed alarm at the recent surge in fire-related incidents across the metro. On Monday, a house fire in Mayfair killed four young children. Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson, Robert Mulaudzi, says residents must be careful when using heating devices, including cooking devices and heaters, as colder winter weather approaches:
# Students from Dr Rajendra Prasad National Law University in Prayagraj, India, will participate in a 3–to 4-week academic exchange with the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The programme will offer seminars, workshops, moot courts, and human rights law clinics in efforts to foster academic and cultural immersion. Vice-Chancellor professor Usha Tandon highlighted the […]
