# The Western Cape Mobility Department welcomes a landmark peace agreement signed by taxi associations CATA and CODETA after weeks of deadly taxi violence. The truce follows fatal attacks linked to a dispute over the lucrative Somerset West route. Spokesperson Muneera Allie says the department expects all parties to honour their commitments. She warns that […]
# Die speaker van die Nasionale Vergadering, Thoko Didiza, het beslis die ANC se poging om Malusi Gigaba as medevoorsitter van die parlementêre gesamentlike staande komitee oor Verdediging te vervang, is nie volgens prosedure gedoen nie. Sy sê haar kantoor het geen amptelike kennisgewing ontvang nie, en ook nie sy bedanking nie voor ‘n ander […]
# Die Herwinningsvereniging van Suid-Afrika vra dat die prysvoorkeurstelsel vir die uitvoer van skrootmetaal opgeskort word. Die vereniging sê die beleid dwing herwinnings-ondernemings om skroot teen ‘n afslag van 30-persent aan plaaslike staalmeulens te verkoop, terwyl staalinvoere toeneem. Die organisasie sê die invoer van staalprodukte het in Julie met 36-persent gestyg vergeleke met ‘n jaar […]
# National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza has ruled the ANC’s attempt to replace Malusi Gigaba as co-chairperson of Parliament’s joint standing committee on Defence was procedurally incorrect. She says her office received no formal communication that Gigaba had been removed, nor a resignation from him, before another ANC member of Parliament was appointed in his […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie versoek Suid-Afrikaners om te heroorweeg hoe water gebruik word, daagliks en tydens vierings. Dit volg op wydverspreide voorvalle van watervermorsing tydens Lentedag-vieringe, toe mense mekaar met water natgegooi het. Woordvoerder Wisane Mavasa sê hierdie saak is dringend namate Suid-Afrika die gevolge van El Niño verwag, wat hoër temperature, […]
# Die Amerikaanse vise-president, JD Vance, sê November se middeltermynverkiesing bied ‘n keuse tussen kranksinnigheid en gesonde verstand. Setels in die Kongres, staats- en plaaslike vlak is op die spel. Meningspeilings toon deelstate soos Texas, Ohio en Alaska, wat die Republikeine in 2024 gemaklik gewen het, is tans belangrike politieke slagvelde. Vance sê die Demokrate […]
# The Recycling Association of South Africa is calling for the suspension of the Price Preference System governing scrap metal exports. The association says the policy forces recyclers to offer scrap to local steel mills at a 30-percent discount, while steel imports continue rising. The organisation says primary steel imports increased 36-percent year-on-year in July, […]
# US vice president JD Vance says November’s midterm elections present a clear choice between crazy and common sense. Seats will be decided in Congress and state and local offices. Polls show states such as Texas, Ohio and Alaska the Republicans comfortably carried in 2024, have become key battlegrounds. Vance says Democrats want to open […]
# The Water and Sanitation Department is calling on South Africans to rethink how water is used during celebrations and everyday life. This follows widespread water wastage during Spring Day activities where people were throwing water at each other. Spokesperson Wisane Mavasa says this concern is even more pressing as South Africa anticipates the effects […]
