# Forum for South Africa condemns municipalities for charging residents who installed boreholes after it failed to provide reliable water. Spokesperson Tebogo Mashilompane says it is unacceptable to punish residents for finding their own solutions to a basic service failure. He says residents should not pay for drilling, pumps and maintenance only to face an […]
# Fourteen municipalities risk electricity supply interruptions from Eskom if they fail to conclude distribution agreements by tomorrow. The National Treasury says none of the municipalities has signed a Distribution Agency Agreement with Eskom. The municipalities owe Eskom substantial amounts, with total municipal debt reaching 119-billion-rand. The agreements would see Eskom temporarily take over electricity […]
# Oudpresidente Jacob Zuma en Thabo Mbeki het hulle Konstitusionele Hof-aansoek verloor om regter Sisi Khampepe te dwing om te onttrek as voorsitter van die ondersoek na Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie-sake. Zuma en Mbeki het aangevoer Khampepe se vorige WVK- en vervolgingsrolle maak haar partydig. Die hof het haar besluit bekragtig om nie te onttrek nie, […]
# Former presidents Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki lost their bid to have Justice Sisi Khampepe recuse herself as chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission cases inquiry. Zuma and Mbeki cited Khampepe’s past TRC and prosecutorial roles as grounds for bias. The court upheld her decision not to recuse herself, and the former presidents […]
# Airlink verdedig sy formasievlugte oor die Kaapstadse stadion voor Saterdag se tweede toets tussen die Springbokke en die All Blacks. Die lugdiens sê geen lugvaart-veiligheidsregulasies is oortree nie, ondanks kommer op sosiale media omdat die vliegtuie buitengewoon laag gevlieg het. Airlink sê die verbyvlug het deeglike beplanning en oefening vereis onder toesig van die […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa en die voorsitter van Eskom se raad, Mteto Nyati, het vergader om Suid-Afrika se verbintenis tot energiehervorming te herbevestig. Hervormings is noodsaaklik om bekostigbare, betroubare en volhoubare elektrisiteitsvoorsiening te verseker. Nyati het vroeër gewaarsku regeringsplanne oor eienaarskap van Eskom kan die onderneming se finansies benadeel en beleggers afskrik. Woordvoerder Vincent Magwenya […]
# Airlink has defended its formation flyover over Cape Town Stadium before Saturday’s second Test between the Springboks and the All Blacks. It says no aviation safety regulations were breached, despite social media concerns that the aircraft appeared to fly unusually low. Airlink says the flypast required careful planning and rehearsals under guidance from the […]
# DA-leier Geordin Hill-Lewis kritiseer president Cyril Ramaphosa oor sy uitlating in die ANC se verkiesingsmanifes dat ANC-bestuurde munisipaliteite ‘n voordeel inhou omdat burgemeesters hulle tot kamerade in die nasionale regering kan wend. Hy sê dit strook nie met die werklikheid of die gees van die regering van nasionale eenheid nie. Hill-Lewis sê Ramaphosa vra […]
# As Women’s Month ends today, Inyathelo salutes the extraordinary female leaders, activists, and social workers who form the backbone of the of the country’s civil society. South Africa’s NPO sector, comprising nearly 300-thousand registered non-profits and women make up an estimated 65-percent to 70-percent of the NPO workforce. Inyathelo’s Feryal Domingo says while Women’s […]
