# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the ANC opened its mayoral candidate selection process to public nominations to improve transparency. The party is to announce its election manifesto in Johannesburg later today. Mbalula says six nomination streams were created, including branches, communities, alliance partners, leagues and self-nominations. He says 532 names were initially considered, candidates […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has thanked a whistleblower who alerted her to an alleged plot to kill a senior department official who refused to sign questionable contracts. Kubayi says she immediately contacted law enforcement agencies, which assessed the threat and put protection measures in place for the official and her family. […]
# Two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of former world boxing champion Zolani “Last Born” Tete in Mdantsane. Eastern Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Nobuntu Gantana says the suspects, aged 30 and 22, were apprehended in KuGompo City yesterday. They are being questioned over Tete’s murder and the attempted murder of his […]
# Die minister van Justisie en Grondwetlike Ontwikkeling, Mmamoloko Kubayi, het ‘n fluitjieblaser bedank wat haar in kennis gestel het van ‘n beweerde komplot om ‘n senior departementsamptenaar te vermoor wat geweier het om twyfelagtige kontrakte te teken. Kubayi sê sy het onmiddellik wetstoepassingsagentskappe gekontak, wat die bedreiging beoordeel en beskermingsmaatreëls vir die amptenaar en […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Vervoer- en Geallieerde Werkersvakbond en die Verenigde Nasionale Vervoervakbond het die Passasierspooragentskap van Suid-Afrika se besluit om 508 werknemers af te lê, veroordeel. Die vakbonde noem dit ‘n groot slag vir werkers en die spoorwegsektor. Die vakbonde het ook herontplooiing en vroeë aftrede voorgestel. UNTU se waarnemende hoofsekretaris, Atenkosi Plaatjie, het aan […]
# Aktiviste en betogers neem deel aan die jaarlikse herdenkingstaptog vir Uyinene Mrwetyana en sê die inisiatief eer haar lewe en hou haar nagedagtenis lewend. Mrwetyana is in Augustus 2019 by die Clareinch-poskantoor in Claremont, Kaapstad, verkrag en vermoor. Die staptog, langs Hoofweg tussen Claremont en die Universiteit van Kaapstad, beklemtoon ook die voortdurende stryd […]
# Die tweede adjunk-sekretaris-generaal van die ANC, Nomvula Mokonyane, sê die party sal nie individuele burgemeesterskandidate nou aankondig nie, maar slegs volledige spanne kandidate wat om munisipale poste meeding, bekend maak. Suksesvolle kandidate sal in September aangekondig word. Mokonyane sê die proses weerspieël die ANC se hernuwingsagenda, met groter verteenwoordiging deur vroue, jongmense, persone met […]
# ANC second deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the party will not announce individual mayoral candidates, but will only unveil full teams of candidates contesting municipal positions. Successful candidates will be announced in September. Mokonyane says the process reflects the ANC’s renewal agenda, with increased representation of women, young people, persons with disabilities and the […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natal Valke-offisier Deena Govender het aan die Madlanga-kommissie gesê bendeverwante skietery in Wentworth het feitlik opgehou na die dood van taxibaas en insleepdiens-sakeman Bevan Loftus en lede van sy bende. Govender sê Loftus was ‘n persoon van beduidende belang tydens ondersoeke na skietvoorvalle en moorde in die gebied. Hy het die afname toegeskryf […]
