# The DA in Ekurhuleni has slammed the City’s 449-million-rand road repair budget as grossly inadequate against a 65-billion-rand road infrastructure backlog. The DA’s Michael Waters says motorists face daily dangers driving on roads in poor condition. It is alleged that a 2019 assessment revealed over 30-percent of roads in the city needed refurbishment. He […]
# The Public Servants Association calls for urgent action following audit findings revealing three-billion-rand in irregular expenditure in the Eastern Cape. The union claims key departments like Health and Education fail to manage public funds properly, while unemployed doctors and pharmacists remain unemployed. The PSA’s Riaan Vosloo says it’s unacceptable that public money is wasted […]
# FNB se nuwe aanlyn tolbetalingsmetode het tolhek-bedrog met meer as 90-persent verminder. Produk- en oplossingshoof van FNB, Netsai Ngidi, het aan Engineering News gesê die stelsel gebruik kaartskyfietegnologie vir intydse, veilige betalings, wat die risiko van veegkaartbedrog uitskakel. Ngidi het gesê dat tradisionele metodes geneig was tot misbruik en kloning, en die tegnologie se […]
# China’s President Xi Jinping urged Vietnam to join forces in upholding free trade, before wrapping up a visit to Hanoi which president Donald Trump said was aiming to hurt the United States. Xi visited Vietnam as part of a Southeast Asia tour that will include Malaysia and Cambodia, with Beijing trying to position itself […]
# Die Nasionale Parkeraad van Suid-Afrika het sy opvoedkundige vertoontenk by die Thesen-eilandkantoor in Knysna suksesvol met bedreigde Knysna-seeperdjies hervul. Hierdie inisiatief beoog om openbare bewustheid te verhoog en bewaring te ondersteun van hierdie unieke spesie, wat slegs in die Knysna-, Swartvlei- en Keurbooms-riviere voorkom. Die hervulling het die bekendstelling van ses jong volwasse seeperdjies […]
# The United Democratic Women’s Organisation has expressed outrage over the alleged sexual assault of a Grade 3 learner at Braamfischerville Primary in Johannesburg. This comes as the Gauteng education department cuts ties with the Nal’iBali reading programme after a child was allegedly sexually assaulted by one of the organisation’s officials. Secretary-general, Thandi Nontenja, demands urgent […]
# Die Departement van Handel, Nywerheid en Mededinging het beklemtoon hoe belangrik dit is vir Afrika om sy eie medisyne te vervaardig. Die departement se hoofdirekteur van Nywerheidsverkryging, Tebogo Makube, het op die G20-hoëvlak ministeriële dialoog gepraat oor die versterking van streekswaardekettings in die Afrika-mark, met hindernisse in handel wat uit die weg geruim moet […]
# Slegs vyf van die 812 gevalle van geslagsgeweld wat in die eerste nege maande van 2024/25 by die Rabasotho-polisiekantoor in Tembisa aangemeld is, het tot skuldigbevindings gelei. Die DA sê dit dui daarop premier Panyaza Lesufi se misdaadbekampingspogings misluk, insluitend die Gauteng Misdaadwagte. Refiloe Nt’sekhe van die DA sê die lae skuldigbevindingkoers toon swak […]
# The City of Cape Town has tabled the most inclusive social assistance package for indigent relief and rates rebates based on an analysis of the 2025/2026 draft budgets compared to other South Africa’s metros. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says Cape Town’s social assistance package compares favourably to other cities on all the main pro-poor criteria, […]
