# Die Gautengse LUR vir Paaie en Vervoer, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, het die bekendmaking van die 2025 Paasnaweek-padveiligheidsverslag deur die minister van Vervoer, Barbara Creecy, verwelkom. Gedurende die Paastydperk vanjaar het Gauteng 22 sterftes aangeteken vergeleke met 52 verlede jaar. Die departement se woordvoerder, Lesiba Mpya, sê hulle is steeds bekommerd oor die aantal sterftes waarby […]
# AfriForum’s anti-bullying campaign recently reached 810 learners at Mayville Primary School in Pretoria. Statistics reveal that one in ten learners drop out of school to avoid being bullied in South Africa. According to Childline, in 2024 it had noted a 109-percent increase in calls related to bullying in schools compared to 2023. AfriForum says […]
# Die minister van Water en Sanitasie, Pemmy Majodina, sê haar departement is verbind tot die verskaffing van menswaardige sanitasie aan gemeenskappe regoor die land . Sy het onlangs 403 nuutgeboude, geventileerde en verbeterde puttoiletstrukture vir huishoudings in die dorpe Fani, Ntsinga en Maqhubela in die Oos-Kaap oorhandig. Die projek is befonds deur die departement […]
# Die Vereniging vir Staatsamptenare is woedend oor die Gautengse regering se buitensporige besteding op die huur van kantoorruimte vir provinsiale departemente. Die LUR vir Infrastruktuurontwikkeling, Jacob Mamabolo het onlangs onthul dat 34-miljoen-rand per maand op die huur van kantore bestee word, ondanks die feit dat die provinsiale regering 41 geboue wat leegstaan besit. Claude […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the metro is looking to extend rates rebates to more property owners and pensioners. This is to cushion annual municipal bill increases for 2025/2026. Hill-Lewis says support measures currently being modelled by the metro include expanding property rates relief, and raising pensioner rebate qualifying criteria higher than the […]
# Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Kedibone Diale-Tlabela, has welcomed the release of the 2025 Easter Road Safety report by Transport minister, Barbara Creecy. During the Easter period, Gauteng recorded 22 fatalities compared to 52 in 2024. The department’s spokesperson, Lesiba Mpya, says they remain concerned about the number of fatalities involving pedestrians, which accounted […]
# The City of Tshwane says it has taken active measures to strengthen mechanisms that allow for the confidential reporting of fraud, corruption, and financial misconduct across all its departments and entities. Reports of fraud and corruption are handled by the Ethics Management and Forensic Services Division. Mayoral committee member for Corporate and Shared Services, Kholofelo […]
# 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 […]