# The Public Servants Association calls on the Reserve Bank to carefully consider the severe financial pressure facing households when deliberating on the repo rate at today’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting. Economists are divided over whether the central bank will hike rates again or leave them unchanged. PSA’s Claude Naicker says wage increases have not […]
# The monetary jurisdiction of small claims courts are increased from 20-thousand- to 30-thousand-rand from the first of next month. The first adjustment since 2019 expands access to affordable, efficient justice based on a case’s merits rather than financial means. The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development’s spokesperson, Palesa Rammitlwa, says the impact of these […]
# City Power in Johannesburg sê kabeldiefstal, opsetlike beskadiging en ander infrastruktuurverwante voorvalle het die onderneming in slegs een naweek meer as 311-duisend-rand gekos. Woordvoerder Isaac Mangena sê daar was tussen Donderdag en Sondag 19 voorvalle, insluitend kabeldiefstal, brande by substasies en opsetlike beskadiging. Die grootste enkele diefstal was in Jeppestown waar sowat 400-meter koperkabel […]
# City Power in Johannesburg says cable theft, vandalism, and other infrastructure-related incidents cost the utility more than 311-thousand-rand in one weekend. Spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the power utility recorded 19 incidents, including cable theft, substation fires, and vandalism, between Thursday and Sunday. He says the biggest theft involved about 400 metres of copper cable […]
# Geleenthede om van die huis te werk, het in die eerste helfte van die jaar ʼn rekord-hoogtepunt bereik in Suid-Afrika. Volgens die werksplatform, Pnet, se jongste verslag oor arbeidsmark-neigings is afstandwerk-geleenthede 28-persent hoër as ‘n jaar gelede en het die afgelope twee jaar met 41-persent toegeneem. Paul Byrne van Pnet het aan Newzroom Afrika […]
# Work-from-home job opportunities in South Africa have reached an all-time high in the first half of this year. This is according to job platform Pnet’s latest Job Market Trends Report, which shows remote employment opportunities were 28-percent higher compared with the same period last year, while opportunities have grown by 41-percent over the past […]
# KwaZulu-Natal Transport and Human Settlements MEC Siboniso Duma says road safety operations will be intensified. This after 36 schoolchildren were found travelling in an overloaded minibus taxi near Park Rynie on the first day of the new school term. Spokesperson Ndabezinhle Sibiya says the taxi was impounded and the driver, who was not carrying […]
# Die KwaZulu-Natalse LUR vir Vervoer en Menslike Nedersettings, Siboniso Duma, sê padveiligheidsoptrede sal verskerp word. Dit volg nadat ‘n oorlaaide minibustaxi met 36 leerders op die eerste dag van die nuwe skoolkwartaal naby Park Rynie gevind is. Woordvoerder Ndabezinhle Sibiya sê die taxi is in beslag geneem en die bestuurder, wat nie ‘n rybewys […]
# ‘n Lid van die polisie se Misdaadintelligensie-eenheid, Ismail Dawood, het homself oorgegee aan die Hillbrow-polisiestasie in Johannesburg. Hy word verdink van afpersing van meer as 350-duisend-rand, aanranding met die doel om ernstig te beseer en intimidasie. Dawood het gister aanvanklik by die polisiestasie in Sandton aangemeld. Ondersoekers sê ‘n administratiewe fout het die vertraging […]
