# President Cyril Ramaphosa has set a target to mobilise three-trillion-rand in investment as government and business enter the third phase of their partnership. Speaking at the launch in Johannesburg, Ramaphosa said the new phase will focus on economic growth, job creation and investor confidence. He said government wants to lift economic growth above three-percent, […]
# Die algemene nywerheidsvakbond GIWUSA sê hy neem kennis van die jongste inflasiesyfers wat Statistiek Suid-Afrika bekend gemaak het. Die syfers toon die inflasiekoers het in Julie tot 4,3-persent gedaal, van 5-persent in Junie. Die president van GIWUSA, Mametlwe Sebei, sê hoewel die afname deur laer brandstofkoste, laer voedselprysinflasie en kleiner verhogings in munisipale tariewe […]
# Controversial businessman Stuart James Scharnick has been arrested outside the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria following an alleged intimidation confrontation with Sowetan journalist Herman Moloi. Scharnick, an associate of suspended police deputy commissioner Shadrack Sibiya, was reportedly captured on camera during the incident. Scharnick had been attending proceedings involving National Coloured Congress leader and Member […]
# Online streaming service Netflix is on a record 320-billion-rand global content spending spree, to secure several major licensing agreements. The platform is adding short-form series from BuzzFeed and Vanity Fair, alongside exclusive video podcasts. Regionally, Netflix signed a landmark continental licensing partnership with South Africa’s eMedia. Under this deal, E-tv’s flagship prime-time drama The […]
# The High Court in Pretoria will hear arguments on former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s application for a discharge under Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act on the 31st. The state has closed its case, while the defence argues prosecutors failed to establish a prima facie case. Mapisa-Nqakula faces 12 corruption charges and […]
# Ondersoeke na die noodlottige gebou-instorting in Ormonde, Johannesburg, het bevind balke en kolomme wat die betrokke betonblaaie gesteun het, was nie sterk genoeg vir die bykomende las nie. Nege werkers is dood en ses beseer toe ‘n deel van die tweede verdieping vroeër vanjaar ingetuimel het. Die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean […]
# Self-proclaimed political fixer Brown Mogotsi is expected back in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court next Tuesday for his fourth bail application, based on new facts. The North West businessman Mogotsi today briefly appeared in court on allegations that he staged his own assassination attempt in Vosloorus, east of Johannesburg, last year. He faces charges of […]
# Die geskorste parlementslid en leier van die National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, het toegegee dat die afgetrede generaal-majoor van die polisie, André Lincoln, hom moontlik mislei het oor inligting rakende Misdaadintelligensie. Hy het aan die Madlanga-kommissie gesê hy het Lincoln geglo vanweë sy uitgebreide kennis van die Polisiediens en die misdaadwêreld. Adams het moontlike […]
# South Africa’s elite Hawks crime-fighting unit is operating with about two-thousand-515 vacancies, including roughly one-thousand-500 vacant investigative posts. Acting Hawks head Siphesihle Nkosi told Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts that skilled investigators are difficult to retain because they can find better opportunities elsewhere. MPs were also concerned about the length of investigations and […]
