# Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero is calling on residents to report illegal electricity connections and help protect electricity infrastructure. The metro’s electricity losses are estimated at around 29-percent, with non-technical losses largely associated with illegal connections, meter tampering, electricity theft and unmetered consumption. Morero says the impact of electricity theft extends beyond the financial losses […]
# The National Union of Mineworkers says it rejects the gradual privatisation and liberalisation of the country’s electricity grid. President Cyril Ramaphosa has approved the Eskom Restructuring Task Team phase one report, as government looks to establish an independent transmission system operator. NUM’s spokesperson, Livhuwani Mammburu, says transferring transmission assets away from Eskom risks fragmentation, […]
# The Motor Transport Workers Union South Africa has condemned the continued bombing and violent attacks on cash-in-transit workers and vehicles, and the unacceptable risks its members are being forced to face while executing their duties. Two security officers were shot and killed, and one injured during a robbery in Mamelodi, Tshwane, on Monday. Two […]
# Die voormalige minister van Verdediging Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula se korrupsieverhoor is uitgestel. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het die verrigtinge uitgestel nadat haar prokureur kommer oor haar gesondheid uitgespreek het. Mapisa-Nqakula staan tereg op aanklagte van korrupsie en geldwassery oor bewerings dat sy miljoene rande in omkoopgeld ontvang het terwyl sy as minister van Verdediging gedien […]
# Former Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption trial has been postponed. The Pretoria High Court adjourned proceedings after her lawyer raised concerns about her health. Mapisa-Nqakula faces corruption and money-laundering charges over allegations that she received millions of rand in bribes while serving as defence minister. She denies the charges. Her lawyer’s Siyabulela Mapomating says […]
# Die staat het die Landdroshof in Brakpan meegedeel ‘n voormalige lid van die polisie se Spesiale Taakmag, Matipandile Sotheni, was in besit van ‘n selfoon terwyl hy in aanhouding was. Die aanklaer, Trott Mphahlele, sê die selfoon is ontdek toe die tronk op 2 September deursoek is en is na bewering gebruik om met […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse LUR vir Landbou, Ekonomiese Ontwikkeling en Toerisme, Ivan Meyer, het EOT Solutions se nuwe gevorderde vervaardigingsaanleg van 30-miljoen-rand by Freeport Saldanha in die Wes-Kaap geopen. Die fasiliteit ondersteun ongeveer 15 direkte werksgeleenthede en stel wêreldklas-metaalverwerkingstegnologie bekend, insluitend een van Suid-Afrika se grootste vesellaserstraalsnymasjiene. Meyer sê die belegging ondersteun die provinsie se Groei […]
# Die sakeman Stuart Scharnick is borgtog van vyf-duisend-rand deur die Randburg-Landdroshof toegestaan op vuurwapenverwante aanklagte. Dit sluit in onbehoorlike vuurwapenberging en die toestaan van ongemagtigde toegang tot ‘n wapen. Die hof het beslis die staat het nie voldoende feite verskaf om sy voortgesette aanhouding te regverdig nie. Scharnick moet sy paspoort inhandig, adresveranderings aanmeld […]
# Die Messteekslagoffer Tshepang Nyathi is in Refilwe, oos van Pretoria, ter ruste gelê na sy moord tydens lentedagvieringe. Polisie sê Nyathi is na bewering met ‘n mes doodgesteek na ‘n woordewisseling waar daar water gespat is. ‘n Drie-en-vyftigjarige man is in hegtenis geneem en van moord aangekla nadat gemeenskapslede hom aangehou en aan die […]
