The headlines of the leading newspapers on 14 October 2025: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports suspended deputy national commissioner Shadrack Sibiya told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that the political murders task force was kept outside his command, the dossiers were centralised, and operational decisions were made outside formal police channels. He also testified that ministerial […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 14 Oktober 2025: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig die geskorste nasionale adjunkkommissaris Shadrack Sibiya het aan die Parlement se ad hoc-komitee gesê die taakspan oor politieke moorde is buite sy bevel gehou, die dossiere is gesentraliseer en operasionele besluite is buite formele polisiekanale geneem. Hy het ook […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has expanded the Special Investigating Unit’s probe into the National Lotteries Commission. The scope of the original proclamation has been extended to include fraud and corruption involving procurement by the commission. The amended proclamation also adds 21 new categories of procurement and contracting to the investigation. The SIU’s initial investigation was […]
# ActionSA sê hy is bekommerd dat die Padongelukkefonds heeltemal bankrot is met onopgetekende laste van meer as 500-miljard-rand. Dis byna ʼn vyfde van die nasionale regering se totale jaarlikse begroting. ActionSA se woordvoerder, Matthew George, sê laste wat nie aangeteken is nie, is een van die ernstigste finansiële wanvoorstellings by enige staatsinstelling in demokratiese […]
# Die parlementêre Staande Komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge hoor hierdie week getuienis aan oor die Padongelukkefonds se verkrygings- en finansiële bestuursprosesse. Drie persone sal vandag getuig. Die komitee het verlede week getuienis van die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid aangehoor wat sistemiese skendings van vertrouenspligte, onregmatige verkrygings en finansiële wanbestuur insluit. Die Ondersoekeenheid het ook talle oortredings van […]
# UDM says South Africa’s transport infrastructure and enforcement mechanisms must be strengthened as a matter of urgency. This follows Sunday’s bus accident, which claimed the lives of 42 people, including seven children, in Limpopo. Meanwhile, a taxi accident left 18 children injured on the N3 highway near the Mariannhill Toll Plaza in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday […]
# The National Task Team on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression, and Sex Characteristics says it remains committed to ensuring that the rights of all people are protected and promoted. The task team, which was established in 2011, has expanded its mandate to include the prevention and combating of all human rights violations, discrimination, and barriers […]
# ActionSA says it is concerned that the Road Accident Fund is completely insolvent, with unrecorded liabilities exceeding 500-billion-rand. This amounts to nearly one-fifth of the national government’s entire annual budget. ActionSA’s Matthew George says unrecorded liabilities are one of the most serious financial misstatements by any state entity in democratic South Africa. He says […]
# Die IVP vra ʼn omvattende ondersoek na die busongeluk waarin 42 mense, insluitend sewe kinders, Sondag op die N1 buite Louis Trichardt in Limpopo dood is. Meer as 30 ander is beseer. Die meeste passasiers was Zimbabwiese en Malawiese burgers wat van die Oos-Kaap op pad was na Harare. Die IVP sê wetstoepassingsowerhede moet […]
