# Water and Sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina says her department is committed to advancing the government’s commitment to offer dignified sanitation to communities across the country. She recently handed over 403 newly constructed ventilated improved pit toilet structures for households in Fani, Ntsinga, and Maqhubela villages in the Eastern Cape. The project was funded through the department’s […]
# The Public Servants Association has expressed outrage at the Gauteng government’s exorbitant expenditure on renting office space for provincial departments. MEC for Infrastructure Development Jacob Mamabolo recently revealed that 34-million-rand per month was being spent on renting office space, despite the provincial government owning 41 vacant buildings. The association’s Claude Naiker says this wasteful […]
# Minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het die Noord-Gautengse Hooggeregshof se afwysing van ’n interdik om vyf trustee-aanstellings by die Onafhanklike Ontwikkelingstrust te blokkeer, verwelkom. Die hof het die aansoekers se gedrag veroordeel en ’n bestraffende kostebevel gelewer. Macpherson sê die uitspraak is ’n oorwinning vir eerlike bestuur en bevestig pogings om […]
# Public Works minister Dean Macpherson has welcomed the North Gauteng High Court’s dismissal of an interdict to block five trustee appointments to the Independent Development Trust. The court condemned the applicants’ conduct and issued a punitive costs order. Macpherson says the ruling is a win for clean governance and confirms efforts to reform the […]
# Die DA het die ANC gekritiseer vir die verwerping van ‘n mosie om billike eiendomsbelasting te implementeer in 19 van Tshwane se onwettig-ontwikkelde gebiede soos Kleinfontein en Moshate Gardens. Die DA se woordvoerder oor Finansies, Jacqui Uys, sê ingevolge die voorstel sou duisende erwe billik belas word. Sy beweer die ANC het ‘n geleentheid […]
# The DA has slammed the ANC for rejecting a motion to implement fair property rates in 19 of Tshwane’s illegally developed areas like Kleinfontein and Moshate Gardens. DA Finance spokesperson Jacqui Uys says the proposal would have ensured thousands of erven were taxed fairly. She claims the ANC missed an opportunity for equality and […]
# The DA in Gauteng is demanding swift repairs and an urgent investigation after a fire, suspected to be vandalism, destroyed eleven classrooms at Riverlea Secondary School. DA education spokesperson Sergio Isa Dos Santos also slammed delays in fixing Eldorado Park’s Lancea Vale Secondary, gutted last August. He vows to hold the education department accountable […]
# Die minister van Kleinsakeontwikkeling, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, stel vandag die Provinsiale tak van die G20 in Gqeberha, Oos-Kaap bekend. Die tweedaagse geleentheid sal fokus op solidariteit, gelykheid en volhoubaarheid. Die vergadering vind plaas terwyl Suid-Afrika in November die globale forum vir ekonomiese samewerking tussen die wêreld se grootste ekonomieë aanbied. Die Oos-Kaapse premier, Oscar Mabuyane, […]
# Suid-Afrika het die Internasionale Geregshof meegedeel die humanitêre ineenstorting in Gaza is nie die gevolg van konflik nie, maar ‘n doelbewuste strategie deur Israel om die Palestynse volk te vernietig. Die hof hoor vandag argumente oor Israel se optrede. President Cyril Ramaphosa se regsadviseur, Nokukhanya Jele, het op die tweede dag van verhore in […]
