# Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza says the metro is making progress in strengthening its financial position, having addressed a 2.1-billion-rand revenue shortfall. The metro’s current bank balance stands at nearly 1.2-billion-rand. Ekurhuleni’s investment balance is now at 672-million-rand, up from 245-million-rand. Meanwhile, Xhakaza says an internal disciplinary process against officials implicated in the metro’s missing […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 04 September 2025: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports the Western Cape government has filed an application with the Constitutional Court to have the National Health Insurance Act declared unconstitutional. The provincial government says Parliament has failed to fulfil its constitutional obligation to facilitate public involvement in the legislative […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 04 September 2025: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig die Wes-Kaapse regering het ‘n aansoek by die Konstitusionele Hof ingedien om die Wet op Nasionale Gesondheidsversekering ongrondwetlik te laat verklaar. Die provinsiale regering sê die Parlement het nie sy grondwetlike verpligting nagekom om openbare betrokkenheid by die wetgewende […]
# The GOOD Party says it is deeply concerned by Burkina Faso’s regressive amendments to its Persons and Family Code, passed by the country’s transitional Parliament. The party says these amendments criminalise same-sex relations, marking a dangerous step backwards for human rights on the African continent. GOOD’s Keagen Gertse says Burkina Faso joins a growing […]
# Die MK-party beskuldig die regering daarvan dat hy by die polisie-ondersoek na politieke moorde inmeng. Dit volg na die nasionale polisiekommissaris Fannie Masemola en die waarnemende polisieminister Firoz Cachalia ooreengekom het om afskrifte van 121 dossiere van die KwaZulu-Natalse taakspan vir politieke moorde aan die Madlanga-kommissie van ondersoek te stuur. David Skosana van die […]
# Deputy Finance minister David Masondo says infrastructure remains a catalyst for sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Government will spend more than 940-billion-rand on infrastructure over the next three years, which includes 375-billion-rand in spending by state-owned entities. This funding will revitalise roads and bridges, build dams and waterways, modernise ports and airports, and power […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions is urging immediate action by government to reduce the increasingly unaffordable price of electricity to stop a jobs bloodbath. The union federation says that since load-shedding started in 2006, electricity prices have increased by more than 450-percent. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks, says what the economy cannot afford […]
# Die adjunkhoofregter Dunstan Mlambo waarsku dat sonder onafhanklikheid die wettigheid van die regbank en sy vermoë om vryheid te beskerm, sal ineenstort. Hy het gister die hooftoespraak gelewer by die opening van die J20-beraad van Konstitusionele en Hooggeregshowe in Johannesburg. Die tweedaagse beraad word gehou onder die tema Geregtigheid in ‘n tyd van Verandering: […]
# The MK Party has accused the government of tampering with police investigations into political killings. This comes after National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola and Acting Police Minister Firoz Cachalia agreed to send copies of 121 dockets from the KwaZulu-Natal political killings task team to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry. The MK Party’s David Skosana […]
