# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank se Monetêre Beleidskomitee vergader volgende week om inflasie en die terugkoopkoers te bespreek. Ekonome voorspel dat die terugkoopkoers bestendig sal bly op sewe-persent nadat inflasie tot 3,5-persent gestyg het, die hoogste in tien maande. Bradd Bendall van BetterBond sê die momentum bou op in die eiendomsmark, met huisleningaansoeke wat op ‘n […]
# Employment and Labour minister Nomakhosazana Meth says justice has prevailed in the fight against human trafficking after seven Chinese nationals were sentenced to 20-years in prison for trafficking, child labour, and labour law violations. The case involved an illegal Johannesburg factory where 91 Malawian workers, including children, faced inhumane conditions from 2017 to 2019. […]
# Die dodetal het tot vyf gestyg nadat ‘n taxi vanoggend in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, teen ‘n kleuterskool vasgejaag het. Meer as tien kinders is beseer. Die bestuurder van die taxi het leerders van verskeie plaaslike skole vervoer, en het beheer verloor op ‘n draai voordat die voertuig teen ‘n boom gebots en op die skoolterrein […]
# Statistics South Africa reports that mining production rose by 4.4-percent year-on-year in July. Principal Survey Statistician, Juan-Pierre Terblanche, says iron ore and platinum group metals drove growth, with increases of 12.2-percent and 6.2-percent respectively. He confirmed that despite diamonds, chromium ore, and coal contributing positively, gold, manganese ore, copper, and nickel declined:
# Die Onafhanklike Polisie-ondersoekdirektoraat het die vermeende moordenaar van die Gautengse misdaad-bewaarder Chesney Keppler, die polisieman Mandla Buthelezi, weer in hegtenis geneem. Keppler is in Desember vermoor. OPOD se woordvoerder, Lizzy Suping, sê Buthelezi is in die Hooggeregshof in Johannesburg aangekeer vir vermeende intimidasie. Sy bevestig dat hy by die Moroka-polisiekantoor aangehou sal word tot […]
# The death toll has risen to five after a taxi crashed into a crèche in Imbali, Pietermaritzburg, this morning. More than ten children were injured. The driver of the taxi, carrying learners from several local schools, lost control on a bend before colliding with a tree and rolling onto the school. The provincial Department […]
# Die regering bepleit kalmte te midde van betogings in Westbury en Coronationville in Johannesburg, Gauteng, oor voortdurende uitdagings met watervoorsiening. Hy sê Johannesburg Water werk daaraan om onmiddellike verligtingsmaatreëls in te stel en finaliseer ook die nuwe Brixton-reservoir en -toring, wat na verwagting teen die einde van volgende maand voltooi sal wees. Die woordvoerder, […]
# Die Parlement se portefeuljekomitee oor Samewerkende Regering en Tradisionele Sake het SALGA geprys oor sy sterk bestuursprestasie. Die vereniging het ‘n indrukwekkende 98-persent prestasiekoers teenoor sy prestasieteikens aangeteken. Die uitvoerende hoof van SALGA, Sithole Mbanga, sê hulle werk saam met die regering, die Parlement en munisipaliteite en bly daartoe verbind om ‘n bekwame, reagerende […]
# The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has arrested policeman Mandla Buthelezi, accused of murdering his girlfriend, Gauteng Crime Warden Chesnay Keppler, last December. IPID spokesperson Lizzy Suping says Buthelezi was taken into custody at the High Court in Johannesburg today for alleged intimidation. She confirmed he will remain detained at Moroka Police Station until his […]
