# Magalies Water has reduced water hyacinth coverage in Hartbeespoort dam to 10.48-percent, a major win in its Water Resource Management Plan. Working with the Department of Water and Sanitation, Magalies Water says it used advanced strategies, including nano-bubble technology, to curb the invasive plant. Despite past coverage exceeding 25-percent, the Rustenburg-based utility says its […]
# National reading campaign, Nal’iBali has condemned sexual assault allegations against one of its reading campaign practitioners of a Grade 3 learner at Braamfischerville Primary School last month . The official has been suspended and arrested. The Gauteng Education Department has since cut ties with Nal’iBali. The organisation’s child protection officer Sibongiseni Blose told SABC […]
# City of Tshwane technicians are nearing completion of repairs at Brakfontein Substation, which was damaged by fire on 3 April. Spokesperson Lindela Mashigo says five of eight panels have passed safety tests, but the remaining faulty panels are delaying full restoration. Mashigo says power can’t be switched on until all panels are safe and […]
# Die Gautengse Drankraad het 1,5-miljoen-rand bestee aan 25 hofsake, met 21 wat hy verloor het en vier waarin ‘n skikking bereik is. Volgens die LUR vir Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling, Lebogang Maile, spruit die sake uit vertragings in die verwerking van dranklisensie-aansoeke, wat die hele provinsie raak en werksverliese veroorsaak het. Die drankraad se versuim om […]
# The DA in Gauteng says in premier Panyaza Lesufi’s State of the Province Address, he claimed his government has created a booming township bakery industry. But the reality is that while the bakeries could indeed bake the 22-thousand loaves a day Lesufi claimed, they cannot access the market and not a single loaf of […]
# The Gauteng Liquor Board has spent 1.5-million-rand on 25 court cases, losing 21 and settling four. This was revealed by MEC for Economic Development, Lebogang Maile during a written reply to the Provincial Legislature. The cases reportedly stem from delays in processing liquor licence applications, which have impacted businesses across the province leading to […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus sê die groot aantal plakkerskampe wat onwettig aan die Stad Tshwane se kragnetwerk gekoppel is, maak die reeds onbetroubare netwerk nog meer onbestendig. Die metro het in Desember 575 plakkerskampe geïdentifiseer wat weens onwettige grondbesettings baie vinnig uitbrei. Die metro se Versoekskrif-komitee het ook sowat 20 aansoeke van plakkerskampe ontvang om […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says the large number of informal settlements illegally connected to the City of Tshwane’s power network is causing the already unreliable network to become even more unstable. Last December, the metro identified 575 informal settlements that are expanding very quickly as a result of illegal land occupations. The metro’s Petition […]
# Die MK-party se vroueliga gaan vandag ‘n optog na die kantore van die Departement van Justisie in Pretoria lei. Die liga eis geregtigheid vir alle geslagsgeweldvoorvalle in die land. Die betogers gaan van negeuur by die Putco-depot in Marabastad bymekaar kom voor hulle na die departement se kantore opruk. Hulle sal na verwagting teen […]
