# Water and Sanitation minister, Pemmy Majodina says South Africa has welcomed the African Union’s declaration of 2026 as the Year of Water. She says it is an important recognition that water security is fundamental to achieving the continent’s developmental aspirations. Majodina addressed the inaugural meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Incomati and Maputo […]
# Overstrand Municipality in the Western Cape says many of the foreign nationals affected by recent unrest in Kleinmond are in South Africa legally. About 100 displaced people are currently being accommodated at the town hall, while some are considering voluntary repatriation. Ward councillor Grant Cohen says families, including children attending local schools, have been […]
# Soccer: Spectators won’t be allowed to bring vuvuzelas to World Cup games. World governing body FIFA banned the plastic horns from venues in Canada, the US and Mexico. In the 2010 tournament in South Africa, vuvuzelas were everywhere, but wasn’t as popular with the rest of the world for their monotonous droning sound. FIFA […]
# Cosatu says society expects and deserves to have a police service that enjoys its confidence and whose loyalty to the law cannot be questioned. This followed the dismissal of former police component head for organised crime, Richard Shibiri after he was found guilty of misconduct. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Matthew Parks says if South Africa’s is […]
# Fitch Ratings believes president Cyril Ramaphosa will remain in office, despite establishment of Parliament impeachment committee on Phala Phala matter set up last month. It expects the ANC with 40-percent of seats in Parliament will remain supportive of the President. Fitch Ratings says tensions within the ANC and the government of national unity are likely to increase, […]
# Cabinet has approved the final closure of the Gauteng freeway improvement project e-toll system, including the orderly resolution of related legal cases and outstanding debt matters. This follows the decision to end electronic tolling in April 2024. Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, says the closure brings finality to a long-standing infrastructure financing issue:
# At least 49 people have died of thirst in a remote part of the Sahara desert in northern Niger after the truck carrying them broke down. Authorities say the group had been returning from Mali where they had attended a Muslim festival when they ran out of water, stranded more than 80 kilometres west […]
# Minstens 49 mense is in ‘n afgeleë deel van die Sahara-woestyn in die noorde van Niger van dors dood nadat die vragmotor waarin hulle gereis het, onklaar geraak het. Owerhede sê die groep was op pad terug van Mali waar hulle ‘n Moslem-fees bygewoon het toe hulle meer as 80 kilometer wes van Assamaka, […]
# Sokker: Toeskouers sal nie toegelaat word om vuvuzelas na Wêreldbeker-wedstryde te neem nie. Die wêreldbeheerliggaam FIFA het die plastiekhorings op stadions in Kanada, die VSA en Mexiko verbied. In die 2010-toernooi in Suid-Afrika was vuvuzelas oral, maar was nie so gewild by die res van die wêreld nie as gevolg van hul eentonige dreungeluid. […]
