# Die minister van Binnelandse Sake, Leon Schreiber, het nuwe waarnemingstegnologie om die grense te beveilig, onthul. Dit sluit in, vier hommeltuie, 40 liggaamskameras en ander waarnemingstoerusting om operasies en patrollies ‘n hupstoot te gee. Vier gevorderde hommeltuie sal vanaf Paasfees by sleutelgrensposte ontplooi word om onwettige oorgang te onderskep en beweging te monitor. Schreiber […]
# The City of Johannesburg says an eight-year-old boy from Mapetla in Soweto has been hospitilised in ICU after eating suspected poisoned snacks form a spaza shop. Johannesburg’s Department of Environmental Health were informed that on Saturday, Omphile Molobela, bought a maize snack which the city’s spokesperson, Virgil James says he shared with his three siblings at home. He started vomiting […]
# The DA says it has submitted two Promotion of Access to Information Act applications to the Department of Transport and the Airports Company South Africa to ensure transparency and accountability for the airports’ crisis. Airports in South Africa are faced with multiple issues, including systemic failures in air traffic safety, failing infrastructure, mismanagement and fuel […]
# Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber has unveiled new surveillance technology to secure the borders. This includes four drones, 40 body cameras and other surveillance equipment to boost patrol operations. From Easter, four advanced drones will be deployed at key border posts to intercept illegal crossings and monitor movement. Schreiber says the move is part […]
# Zimbabwe het begin met vergoedingsbetalings aan voormalige plaaseienaars kragtens die Global Compensation Deed wat in 2020 onderteken is. Daar is tot op hede 740 plase goedgekeur vir vergoeding, met die regering wat reeds ongeveer 59,3-miljoen-rand uitbetaal het vir die eerste verwerkte 378 plase. Die minister van Finansies in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, sê die vergoeding […]
# The South African National Petroleum Company is set to operate as a fully-fledged Central Energy Fund subsidiary. This follows a reached agreement with employees of the merging entities, including iGas, PetroSA, and SFF. The company aims to oversee South Africa’s petroleum resources, enhancing energy security and economic growth. The petroleum company says a phased […]
# The United Democratic Movement in the Eastern Cape has expressed serious concern over the province’s latest audit outcomes. Despite past gains, clean audits dropped from 12 to 9 in 2023/24. UDM’s Bulelani Bobotyane, condemned recurring failures in Health and Education, citing poor planning and weak governance. With over three-billion-rand lost to irregular, wasteful, and […]
# Civil society, led by Women for Change, demands that president Cyril Ramaphosa must declare gender-based violence and femicide a national disaster. According to Statistics South Africa over 50-percent of assaults against women are committed by someone they know, with intimate partners or spouses accounting for at least 15-percent of these attacks. Women for Change’s Lesego […]
# Inwoners van Kaapstad is bereid om tot tien-persent méér vir hul waterrekeninge te betaal om seewater vir die spoel van hul toilette te gebruik, solank dit nie sleg ruik of die toilette vlek nie. Dít is volgens ‘n onderoek deur die Universiteit van Kaapstad. Navorsers sê die gebruik van seewater om toilette te spoel […]
