# The Congress of South African Trade Unions says the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s fare increases will be burdensome to commuters who are already battling to cope with the high cost of living. Single tickets on the Metrorail network will go up by two-rand-50-cents from August 1st, while return tickets will increase by […]
The headlines of the leading newspapers on 23 July 2025: NATIONAL: # Business Day: Reports the DA has decided to support the Appropriation Bill after president Cyril Ramaphosa sacked the minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane. The DA had earlier said it would withdraw its support for the budget allocations of the ministries […]
Die hooftrekke uit die belangrikste nuusblaaie soos op 23 Julie 2025: NASIONAAL: # Business Day: Berig die DA het besluit om sy steun toe te sê aan die Begrotingswetsontwerp nadat president Cyril Ramaphosa die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nobuhle Nkabane, afgedank het. Die DA het vroeër gesê hy gaan sy steun onttrek aan […]
# Die DA verwelkom president Cyril Ramaphosa se besluit om die Suid-Gautengse direkteur van Openbare Vervolging, Andrew Chauke, te skors hangende ʼn ondersoek na sy bevoegdheid om die amp te beklee. Hy is al jare lank die middelpunt van bewerings dat hy die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag as wapen gebruik om die polities magtige en korrupte te […]
# Eskom sê twee kontraktuele geskille met Framatome, die kontrakteur wat die stoomopwekker by die Koeberg-kernkragaanleg moet vervang, word deur prosesse hanteer waarop ooreengekom is. Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof het die kragverskaffer opdrag gegee om die Franse kernenergie-maatskappy sowat een-miljard-rand te betaal oor die staking van werk in 2022 om drie stoomopwekkers by Koeberg te vervang. […]
# Die Patriotic Alliance se leier, Gayton McKenzie, het die party se adjunkpresident Kenny Kunene 30 dae op verlof geplaas. Dit volg nadat Kunene, wat ook Johannesburg se burgemeesterskomiteelid vir Vervoer is, by ʼn verdagte in die moord op Oupa Sefoka, ook bekend as DJ Sumbody, se huis in Sandton opgemerk is. Kunene ontken dat […]
# The South African Federation of Trade Unions is demanding a total overhaul of the governance of the Sector Education and Training Authorities, and a reversal of the trend toward centralisation and political capture. This follows the removal of Nobuhle Nkabane as minister of Higher Education and Training, over her controversial appointments to the boards […]
# The DA is demanding that the Eskom board and executives appear before Parliament to account for the one-billion-rand court-ordered payment to the French nuclear company, Framatome. The court ruled that Eskom was at fault for ordering work to stop on the replacement of three steam generators at the Koeberg nuclear power station in Cape Town. The DA’s Kevin Mileham says this disaster […]
# Patriotic Alliance leader, Gayton McKenzie, has put deputy president Kenny Kunene on a 30-day leave of absence. This comes after Kunene, who is also the Johannesburg mayoral committee member for Transport, was found at the Sandton house of a suspect linked to the murder of Oupa Sefoka, popularly known as DJ Sumbody. Kunene has […]
