# Mpumalanga police says there is currently no indication of foul play in the deaths of two St Stithians College teenagers. The bodies of 19-year-old Ethan Coetzee and Grade 11 learner Cameron Waldeck-Cooks were discovered at a lodge in Sabie on Monday. Coetzee, who matriculated last year, was a member of the Johannesburg school’s first rugby […]
# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, demands that ANC veteran Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma retract allegations linking him to vote-buying. In an interview on Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s podcast, African Renaissance, she alleged there was a circulation of a voice note purportedly of Lamola of vote-buying during the ANC’s 54th national conference in 2017. She accused ANC […]
# Die Vereniging van Staatsamptenare vra die nuut-aangestelde raad van die Openbare Beleggingskorporasie om goeie bestuur die sentrale punt van sy mandaat te maak. Agt raadslede het verlede week bedank. Die korporasie hanteer meer as drie-duisend-miljard-rand van staats-pensioenfondse. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die skorsing van uitvoerende hoof Patrick Dlamini onwettig en ongeldig verklaar. Woordvoerder […]
# The Public Servants Association is calling on the newly appointed Public Investment Corporation board to place good governance at the centre of its mandate. Last week, the corporation, which handles more than three-trillion-rand in government employees’ pension funds, saw the resignation of eight board members. Meanwhile, the High Court in Pretoria found the suspension […]
# Die Kaapse Onafhanklikheidsvoorspraakgroep het die besluit deur Kaapstad se burgemeester, Geordin Hill-Lewis, verwelkom om formeel ‘n interregeringsgeskil met die waarnemende minister van polisie, Firoz Cachalia, te verklaar. Die burgemeester wil hê Kaapstad se metropolisie en wetstoepassingsbeamptes moet wettig misdade kan ondersoek en dossiere vir vervolging opstel. Die leier van die groep, Phil Craig, sê […]
# Die ouditeur-generaal, Tsakani Maluleke, waarsku dat swak beplanning, swak verkryging en ʼn gebrek aan aanspreeklikheid die lewering van infrastruktuur kniehalter terwyl waterverliese mislukte stelsels ontbloot. Volgens die 2024/2025 saamgestelde algemene verslag oor die nasionale en provinsiale oudit-uitkomste, was daar 109 vertragings by 152 infrastruktuurprojekte wat geoudit is. Die projekte kos saam 47,39-miljard-rand. Maluleke sê […]
# Die Nasionale Tesourie se direkteur-generaal, Duncan Pieterse, sê geopolitieke spanning maak dit vir Suid-Afrika moeiliker om fiskale teikens te bereik en terselfdertyd noodsaaklike maatskaplike besteding te beskerm. Die fiskale strategie se doel is om die verhouding tussen skuld en bruto binnelandse produk in die 2025/2026-boekjaar te bestendig en dan te verminder. Pieterse sê ten […]
# The Cape Independence Advocacy Group has welcomed Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s decision to formally declare an intergovernmental dispute with acting minister of Police, Firoz Cachalia. This is over the mayor wanting Cape Town’s Metro Police and Law Enforcement officers to have legal authority to investigate crimes and build prosecution-ready dockets. The Cape Independence […]
# Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke has warned that weak planning, poor procurement and lack of accountability are crippling infrastructure delivery, with water losses exposing failing systems. The 2024-2025 consolidated general report on the national and provincial audit outcomes revealed that of 152 infrastructure projects that were audited, 109 experienced delays. The projects have a combined estimated […]
