# Adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile sê die regering onderneem om oor die volgende drie jaar meer as een-duisend-miljard-rand te belê om openbare infrastruktuur en landsburgers se lewenstandaard te verbeter. Hy het gister by ʼn geleentheid van die minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur en LUR’e in Gqeberha in die Oos-Kaap gepraat. Mashatile sê infrastruktuur-dienslewering is nie net […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero says they understand the frustration of residents in Coronationville and Westbury, who are still without water. He engaged the Coronationville community yesterday. Morero says while supply has been restored in some areas, repair efforts are being hampered by ongoing vandalism and sabotage of city infrastructure. He says more than 20 […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Hamas says prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza City ground incursion means that Israel has lost any chance of getting its hostages out of the territory, dead or alive. Forty-eight hostages remain in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. Israel began its incursion on the outskirts of Gaza City on Wednesday, killing […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Eskom says it notes the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, setting aside the Environmental Authorisation granted for the proposed three-thousand-megawatt Combined Cycle Gas Power Plant in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal. The court stated that there was inadequate public participation, and no consultation was conducted with vulnerable communities. It also cited a failure to assess renewable […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Deputy president Paul Mashatile says government has pledged to invest over one-trillion-rand over the next three years, focusing on improving public infrastructure to enhance the living standards of citizens. He addressed a Public Works and Infrastructure Minister and MECs event in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, yesterday. Mashatile says infrastructure service delivery goes beyond merely constructing roads, […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Rugby: Griekwas se begin-vyftiental vir môre se Curriebeker-eindstryd teen die Leeus toon net een verandering van die span wat die Cheetahs in verlede week se halfeindstryd in Kimberley verslaan het. Die slot Derik Pretorius vervang Malembe Mpofu, wat nie sy kopbeseringstoets geslaag het nie, terwyl Marco de Witt dekking op die bank bied. Phumzile […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Rugby: Griquas’ starting-15 to face the Lions in tomorrow’s Currie Cup final shows only one change from the squad that beat the Cheetahs in last weekend’s semifinal in Kimberley. Lock Derik Pretorius replaces Malembe Mpofu, who failed his head injury assessment, with Marco de Witt providing cover on the bench. Phumzile Maqondwana is the […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Die Valke het gister ʼn klopjag uitgevoer by die Polokwane-munisipaliteit se kantoor ná bewerings van tender-onreëlmatighede waarby kontrakte van 225,5-miljoen-rand betrokke is. Burgemeester John Mpe en munisipale bestuurder Thuso Nemugumoni het na bewering tenders toegeken aan hegte vriende en buitelandse maatskappye. Munisipale fondse is volgens berigte ook gebruik om die Makoro-stigting wat aan die […]    
				
				
				
			
				
				
				
					
    
		# Die adjunkminister in die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking, Alvin Botes, sê Suid-Afrika het borgskappe van 149-miljoen-rand gekry om sy G20-presidentskap te ondersteun. In aanloop tot die G20-leiersberaad in Gauteng in November, het 90 van die 133 beplande vergaderings reeds plaasgevind. Botes het aan die parlementêre portefeuljekomitee oor Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking gesê daar […]