# The UDM has written to the Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts, to urgently address the escalation of spending on water-tanker services by municipalities. The City of Tshwane has come under fire over the 777-million-rand reportedly spent on water tankers during the financial year ending June 2025. UDM’s Thandi Nontenja says they is growing […]
# The City of Cape Town law enforcement agencies arrested 281 suspects and issued over 50-thousand fines in the past week. Twenty-three motorists found to be driving under the influence of alcohol. Meanwhile, one-thousand-769 warrants of arrest were executed and 225 public transport vehicles impounded. Mayoral committee member for Safety and Security, JP Smith, says […]
# The GOOD Party says the implementation of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment policies must be fixed with strong guard rails to curb corruption. This comes as the DA has proposed an economic empowerment bill that removes race as a determining factor, replacing it with a needs-based approach. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says there have […]
# The Congress of South African Trade Unions has rejected the DA’s call for the scrapping of Broad-Based Black Empowerment, saying the objectives of the policy are sacrosanct. The DA is looking to introduce the Economic Inclusion for All Bill, which seeks to amend the Public Procurement Amendment Act of 2024, to repeal all race-based preferential […]
# Brandweerdienste van die Kaapse Wynland Distriksmunisipaliteit is op die toneel van ‘n veldbrand langs die Drakenstein-gevangenis op die R301, tussen die Paarl en Franschhoek. Die brand word vererger deur sterk wind en digte plantegroei, met swaar rook wat brandbestryding uiters uitdagend maak. Die wind het die brand in die rigting van gevangenisbehuising laat versprei, […]
# The Cape Winelands District Municipality’s Fire Services are attending to a veld fire adjacent to Drakenstein Prison on the R301, between Paarl and Franschhoek. The fire is being fuelled by strong winds and dense vegetation, resulting in heavy smoke that is making firefighting operations extremely challenging. The wind pushed the fire toward prison housing, […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse uitvoere deur klein- en mediumgrootte ondernemings na die VSA het sedert April met 46-persent gedaal. Volgens die verskepingsplatform TUNL se KMO-uitvoerindeks volg die daling na die herroeping van die belastingvrye kwytskelding en nuwe wederkerige tariewe van 30-persent met die VSA. Die uitvoerende hoof van TUNL, Craig Lowman, sê die veranderings het klein […]
# Die burgemeesterskomiteelid vir openbare veiligheid in Johannesburg, Mgcini Tshwaku, het sy verontwaardiging uitgespreek oor die Bekkersdal-polisie se onregmatige inhegtenisneming van vyf lede van die taktiese reaksie-eenheid van die Johannesburgse metropolisie en twee voertuigherwinningsbeamptes. Die beamptes is aangehou tydens ‘n wettige voertuigherwinningoperasie wat verbind is aan ‘n beweerde onwettige mynboubaas. Tshwaku sê die arrestasies ondermyn […]
# Die ANC en COSATU hou ‘n bilaterale vergadering by COSATU-huis in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, om hul alliansie te versterk en werkers se bekommernisse te bespreek. Die ANC sal sy ekonomiese aksieplan vir terugvoer voorlê. COSATU se woordvoerder, Matthew Parks, sê gesprekke sal fokus op die verbetering van werkers se regte, dienslewering en werkskepping. Hy sê […]
