# Die Nasionale Skuilingbeweging sê daar is ‘n dringende behoefte om die land se reeds oorvol netwerk van skuilings vir vroue en veilige ruimtes vir geslagsgeweld en vrouemoordslagoffers te verbeter. Die Departement van Maatskaplike Ontwikkeling bied hierdie week die sesde Nasionale Skuiling-indaba in Benoni, Gauteng, aan om reaksies op die geslagsgeweld-krisis te versterk. Greer Schoeman […]
# Home Affairs officials say 278 people camping outside the Durban refugee reception centre in KwaZulu-Natal will be transported to the Lindela repatriation centre in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, today. The group has been stranded on Che Guevara Road for three months after fleeing anti-immigration protests. The relocation comes after a tense standoff with the March and […]
# The DA says Social Development minister Dina Pule must be held accountable after ignoring the Public Protector’s remedial action. Communications and Digital Technologies minister Solly Malatsi has ordered the recovery of over 15-thousand-rand from businessman Phosane Mngqibisa, who accompanied Pule overseas in 2013 when she was Communications minister. The DA’s Nazley Sharif says Pule […]
# The South African Local Government Association, through its National Women’s Commission, has condemned the continued and brutal murder of women in Kempton Park and across the country. This follows the discovery of six women’s bodies in the Kempton Park area over a two-month period. SALGA’s Nomvuyo Mposelwa is calling for urgent, decisive and coordinated […]
# Die Gautengse polisie het bevestig die liggaam van ‘n sesde vrou is vanoggend aan die Oos-rand gevind. Die omstandighede rondom haar dood is nog onduidelik. Die jongste ontdekking in KwaThema volg op die dood van vyf vroue wie se liggame sedert Julie in Kemptonpark ontdek is, insluitend dié van ‘n vrou gister in Olifantsfontein. […]
# Gauteng police have confirmed the discovery of a sixth woman’s body on the East Rand this morning. The circumstances surrounding the death remain unclear. The latest discovery in KwaThema follows the deaths of five women whose bodies have been found in Kempton Park since July, including a woman discovered in Olifantsfontein yesterday. Some victims […]
# The National Shelter Movement says there is an urgent need to strengthen the already overstretched network of shelters for women and safe spaces for gender-based violence and femicide survivors. The Department of Social Development is hosting the sixth National Shelter indaba in Benoni, Gauteng, this week to strengthen responses to the crisis. NSMSA’s Greer […]
# Die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Polisie verwelkom die polisie en spesialis-wetstoepassings-eenhede se suksesse teen dwelmhandelaars die afgelope week. Die Wes-Kaapse polisie het beslag gelê op 57-duisend Mandrax-tablette en vyf kilogram kokaïen van ongeveer 5,85-miljoen-rand. ‘n Vermeende dwelmlaboratorium met ‘n waarde van sowat 100-miljoen-rand is in Erasmia, Tshwane, ontdek. Voorsitter Ian Cameron sê hierdie welslae is […]
# Die ANC se nasionale voorsitter, Gwede Mantashe, sê die vakbondfederasie COSATU moet tydens sy 15de nasionale kongres werk aan oplossings vir sy interne probleme. Die kongres in Midrand, Johannesburg, het gister in chaos verval na die skorsing van adjunkpresident Mike Shingange. NEHAWU het sy steun onttrek vir Shingange, wat sy president is, terwyl NUM, […]
