# The ANC’s Castro de Bruin has resigned as mayor of Beaufort West in the Western Cape. The resignation follows pressure from the DA, which has since seen the party’s Elvico Links elected as the new speaker in the municipality. Links served as DA Beaufort West constituency chairperson and is currently the ward six councillor. […]
# Education activist Hendrick Makaneta urges parents, teachers, communities, and the government to unite to restore peace and safety in schools. This follows after a violent clash between learners from West Ridge High School and Hoërskool Roodepoort in Gauteng on Monday left a principal stabbed and several learners seriously injured. Makaneta calls for stronger security […]
# Die DA in Gauteng veroordeel die vertragings met die voltooiing van die Tshwane Biopark en sê dit bedreig werksgeleenthede sowel as vervaardigingsgeleenthede. Die DA-lid, Ofentse Madzebatela, het onthul die projek, wat in 2019 van stapel gestuur is en teen September 2024 voltooi sou wees, het tot stilstand gekom weens onbetaalde kontrakteurs. Madzebatela beklemtoon die […]
# Die DA sê dat slegs 21-persent van die toelaaghersienings in die Wes-Kaap afgehandel is, wat baie begunstigdes sonder toegang tot maatskaplike bystand laat. Die party sê meer personeel, beter hulpbronne, self-bedieningskiosks, en gedesentraliseerde dienste word benodig om hersienings te versnel en kwesbare burgers te beskerm. Wendy Kaizer-Philander van die DA vra die nasionale Department […]
# AfriForum has filed an internal appeal after the South African Police Service ignored its Promotion of Access to Information Act application on the use of private security at police stations. The organisation says four months of silence raises serious concerns as the government considers regulations that could weaken the private security sector. AfriForum’s Jacques […]
# Die Activists and Citizens Forum sê die regstelsel moet die samelewing teen gevaarlike misdadigers beskerm. Die forum verwelkom die feit dat borgtog nie aan die sakeman Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe, in die Alexandra Landdroshof in Gauteng toegestaan is nie. Hy staan tereg op verskeie aanklagte, ondermeer ‘n bewering dat hy die baasbrein was agter die […]
# A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings was moved across the Arctic town of Kiruna today to its new home. to allow Europe’s biggest underground mine to expand. Kiruna’s entire town centre is being relocated because of the iron ore mine, whose ever deeper burrowing has weakened the ground, […]
# FNB Agriculture head of information and marketing, Dawie Maree, says the frequency of veld fires in South Africa is increasing, causing severe damage to farms. Speaking to Engineering News, Maree says farmers across KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Free State, Western Cape, the Karoo, and Gauteng face destroyed crops, livestock, grazing land, and infrastructure, driving up […]
# ActionSA sê die Stad Tshwane het beduidende vordering gemaak met die herstel van straatligte, met 91-duisend-581 wat in die afgelope jaar herstel is. Die party sê die meeste herstelwerk is sedert Oktober verlede jaar uitgevoer, toe die burgemeester Nasiphi Moya en haar koalisievennote beheer oorgeneem het. Die ‘Tshwane-opsporingsportaal’ is ook bekendgestel om deursigtigheid te […]
