# ATM vra die regering om die tiener-swangerskapkrisis amptelik tot ‘n nasionale pandemie te verklaar, met onmiddellike toewysing van hulpbronne en aandag. Die party sê meer as twee-duisend-716 meisies tussen tien en 14 jaar oud het in net een jaar geboorte geskenk, en meer as 100 van hierdie gevalle is van April tot Julie vanjaar […]
# Fine Wine Fellow has announced the acquisition of Norman Goodfellows, one of South Africa’s most respected food and beverage distributors and retailers of fine wines and spirits. NGF CEO Jason McEvoy, says Norman Goodfellows traces its roots back to 1976, when Norman Kramer opened one of South Africa’s first specialist liquor stores. He says their […]
# The ANC has welcomed the clarification by Trade, Industry and Competition minister Parks Tau, regarding the recently published Draft National Credit Regulations. Spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu says the ANC noted with appreciation the minister’s assurance that the proposed regulations are not intended to prejudice students indebted to institutions of higher learning, but rather to strengthen access […]
# COSATU says it supports the call for life imprisonment of seven Chinese nationals convicted of human trafficking and child labour. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Zanele Sabela says they were arrested in November 2019 after a joint raid found 91 undocumented Malawian nationals, 37 of whom were children, locked in a factory in Village Deep, Johannesburg. She […]
# The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union says it demands that government must come with urgent practical steps to reduce police killings and injuries, whether on or off duty. POPCRU spokesperson Richard Mamabolo says between April last year and March this year, 27 police officer were killed across the country. He says POPCRU demands […]
# The Campaign to Scrap the Labour Law Amendment Bills says it rejects Employment and Labour minister, Nomakhosazana Meth’s promulgation of the new Code of Good Practice on Dismissal. The campaign’s spokesperson, Patrick Mlaba, says the new code fundamentally shifts the balance of power in favour of employers. He says the power and control of employers […]
# The ATM is calling upon government to officially declare the teenage pregnancy crisis a national pandemic, prompting immediate allocation of resources and attention. The party says over two-thousand-716 girls aged ten to 14 gave birth in just one year, and more than 100 of these cases were reported in the Eastern Cape alone from […]
# Activists and Citizens Forum says the killings in the Western Cape, especially in Cape Town, need urgent and drastic intervening to save the lives of innocent people in gang infested areas. Activists and Citizens Forum spokesperson, Dennis Bloem says almost every week, South Africans hear of mass killings in African townships in Cape Town. […]
# University of the Free State assistant researcher, Sandile Ndlovu says South Africa’s e-waste management system requires a coordinated effort to establish permanent e-waste disposal points across all South African institutions of higher learning. He says South Africa’s formal recycling efforts only recover between 7-percent and 12-percent of its total electronic waste output. Ndlovu says […]
