# Energy regulator Nersa has called on stakeholders to take part in a public hearing on the National Transmission Company South Africa’s application for a market operator licence. The regulator says the licence is a critical step toward creating a competitive electricity market in South Africa. Nersa spokesperson Charles Hlebela says the hearing will take […]
# Union federation Saftu says the motor industry faces a jobs bloodbath following Ford’s plan to cut jobs at its plants in Gauteng and the Eastern Cape. The federation has joined metalworkers’ union Numsa in condemning the retrenchments, warning they come on top of cuts at Mercedes-Benz and ArcelorMittal South Africa, which threaten the country’s […]
# Union federation Saftu says ArcelorMittal South Africa’s closure of long steel operations in Newcastle and Vereeniging, and the threatened future of Vanderbijlpark, is a national disaster. The federation blames decades of privatisation, corporate greed, and government failure for the collapse, warning thousands of jobs and entire communities are at risk. Saftu’s Asive Dyani calls […]
# ActionSA says Parliament must act to protect government workers’ pensions from corruption. The party has called on Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts to summon the leadership of the Government Pensions Administration Agency and Finance minister Enoch Godongwana after reports of ghost contracts. ActionSA’s Matthew George says a 500-million-rand biometric contract was awarded to […]
# Die Solidariteit Beweging het ’n splinternuwe digitale kultuurtuiste bekendgestel wat Afrikaners wêreldwyd tot ’n lewende gemeenskap verbind wat kultuur, Afrikaans en betrokkenheid bevorder en ondersteun. MyHartland is gebore vanuit die droom om Afrikaners regoor die wêreld met mekaar en hulle tuisland, oftewel Hartland, te verbind, maak nie saak waar hulle hulself bevind nie.Navorsing wat […]
# The National Youth Development Agency says its partnership with music duo Scorpion Kings involved no financial exchange. About 150 National Youth Service participants gained hands-on experience at the Live with Friends concert, assisting with event management and stage operations. The agency’s CEO Ndumiso Kubheka says the initiative focused on skills and mentorship, not funding. […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die Artikel 174-aansoek in die Senzo Meyiwa-moordverhoor deur beskuldigde nommer vier, Mthokoziseni Maphisa, van die hand gewys. Maphisa het aangevoer die Staat het hom nie met die 2014-moord verbind nie, maar aanklaers sê hy het voor Meyiwa se meisie, Kelly Khumalo, se huis die gebied dopgehou toe die Bafana […]
# Die DA sê die Parlement se portefeuljekomitee oor Polisie moet dringend die broeiende magstryd oplos tussen die waarnemende minister van Polisie, Firoz Cachalia, en nasionale polisiekommissaris Fannie Masemola. Die geskil is veroorsaak deur die terugbesorging van 121 politieke moorddossiere aan die KwaZulu-Natalse taakspan. Lisa Schickerling van die DA glo die magstryd kan ondersoeke vertraag […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Regering het Tasneem Solomons gelukgewens met die verowering van haar tweede Wêreldmeesterstitel in snoeker vir vroue by die Wêreld-agtbalsnoekerkampioenskappe in Ennis, Ierland. Tasneem, van Bonteheuwel, het ook ‘n Ministeriële Aanprysing by die 2024 Wes-Kaapse Sporttoekennings ontvang. Die LUR vir Kultuursake en Sport, Ricardo Mackenzie, het haar toewyding en status as rolmodel geprys:
