# The Inkatha Freedom Party president Velenkosini Hlabisa says the return of approximately 200 former National Freedom Party members in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, highlights growing support for the party ahead of local elections. The members including prominent leaders NFP’s National chairperson Sibusiso Mkhabela, secretary general Teddy Twala and party councillors were welcomed to the IFP. Most […]
# State-owned freight and logistics company Transnet says it is taking firm action over alleged procurement irregularities at its Richards Bay port terminal. A whistleblower report involving two tenders prompted an internal and external investigation, resulting in the precautionary suspension of an unnamed executive. Transnet says further investigations and disciplinary processes are continuing, alongside law-enforcement […]
# Five Emfuleni Local Municipality employees have been arrested for allegedly running an illegal electricity reconnection scheme in Vanderbijlpark. Police say the suspects, from the Revenue and Electrical Departments, allegedly targeted customers whose electricity had been disconnected and demanded cash payments into their personal bank accounts. The power was then allegedly reconnected without municipal approval. […]
# EFF president Julius Malema says an EFF-led government would provide unemployed citizens and Sassa beneficiaries with free basic services. Addressing the party’s Ground Forces Forum in uMsunduzi, KwaZulu-Natal, Malema said unemployment is out of control and government was failing to meet people’s basic needs. He says Sassa beneficiaries should automatically qualify for support, including […]
# Transnet sê hy gaan ferm stappe doen oor beweerde verkrygingsonreëlmatighede by sy Richardsbaai-haweterminaal. ‘n Fluitjieblasersverslag oor twee tenders het ‘n interne en eksterne ondersoek tot gevolg gehad, wat gelei het tot die voorsorgskorsing van ‘n naamlose uitvoerende beampte. Transnet sê verdere ondersoeke en dissiplinêre prosesse saam met wetstoepassingsagentskappe, duur voort. Sewe maatskappye is deur […]
# State-owned freight and logistics company Transnet says it is taking firm action over alleged procurement irregularities at its Richards Bay port terminal. A whistleblower report involving two tenders prompted an internal and external investigation, resulting in the precautionary suspension of an unnamed executive. Transnet says further investigations and disciplinary processes are continuing, alongside law-enforcement […]
# The official funeral service for former two-division world boxing champion Zolani “Last Born” Tete will be held next Saturday, at KuGompo City Hall in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape. A memorial service is planned for Wednesday at the same venue. Tete was fatally shot outside his home this past Friday. Police have since apprehended two people, […]
# ANC-president Cyril Ramaphosa het gewaarsku teen nepotisme en partydigheid in munisipale tenderprosesse. Ramaphosa het tydens ‘n ANC-geleentheid in Johannesburg vir die aankondiging van sy burgemeesterskandidate, gesê tenders moet op meriete toegeken word en nie op grond van persoonlike verbintenisse nie. Ramaphosa het ANC-verteenwoordigers aangespoor om eerlikheid, integriteit en aanspreeklikheid te handhaaf, terwyl openbare fondse […]
# Die ANC-sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, sê die party het die keuringsproses vir sy burgemeesterskandidate vir openbare benoemings oopgestel om deursigtigheid te verbeter. Die party stel later vandag sy verkiesingsmanifes vir die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing bekend. Mbalula sê ses nominasiestrome is geskep, insluitend takke, gemeenskappe, alliansievennote, ligas en selfbenoemings. Hy sê 532 name is aanvanklik oorweeg, kandidate […]
