# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Correctional Services has expressed concern over allegations at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria. Inmates alleged they are being forced to pay 240-rand for access to a bunk bed, with those unable to pay allegedly left sleeping on concrete floors in overcrowded and unsanitary cells. The committee says it […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse polisiekommissaris, Sizakhele Dyantyi, sê hy sal geen verdraagsaamheid toon teenoor beamptes wat omkoopgeld aanvaar of hul mag misbruik nie. ʼn Polisiebeampte wat probeer het om smokkelware by aanhoudingselle by die Mitchell’s Plain-polisiekantoor in te smokkel, is Sondag gearresteer. Die polisiewoordvoerder, Wesley Twigg, sê die beampte was aan die verkeerde kant van die […]
# Die Hooggeregshof in Makhanda het die Valke in die Oos-Kaap en die Nasionale Vervolgingsgesag ʼn verbeurdverklaringsbevel van meer as 2,3-miljoen-rand toegestaan. Dit hou verband met ʼn kontantrooftog in Julie 2024 op die pad tussen Kei-weg, Maclean Town en Stutterheim. Die Valke-woordvoerder, Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana, sê vyf verdagtes is tydens die voorval doodgeskiet en vyf ander […]
# Lede van die Voedsel- en Geallieerde Werkersvakbond, Fawu, in die suikervervaardigings- en -raffineringsbedryf het hul staking hervat ná ʼn dooiepunt in salaris-onderhandelings. Honderde werkers, hoofsaaklik in KwaZulu-Natal en ander suikerriet-streke, het hul poste by meulens en verwante bedrywighede verlaat. Die vakbonde FAWU, AMCU en die United Association of South Africa eis onder meer ʼn […]
# Western Cape Police Commissioner Sizakhele Dyantyi says he is taking a zero-tolerance stance against officers who take bribes or abuse their power. A police officer who attempted to smuggle contraband into the holding cells at Mitchell’s Plain SAPS was arrested on Sunday. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says the officer found himself on the wrong […]
# Die vakbondfederasie Cosatu sê die bestuursprobleme by die Nasionale Studente Finansiële Hulpskema spoel oor na administratiewe prosesse, en raak duisende studente. Die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria het in ‘n uitspraak verlede week die ontbinde NSFAS-raad heraangestel en professor Hlengani Mathebula se aanstelling as administrateur as irrasioneel verklaar. Cosatu se woordvoerder, Nonzuzo Dlamini, sê die aanstelling […]
# The Makhanda High Court has granted the Hawks in the Eastern Cape and the National Prosecuting Authority a forfeiture order worth over 2.3-million-rand. This is linked to a July 2024 cash-in-transit robbery along the road between Kei Road, Maclean Town, and Stutterheim. Hawks spokesperson Ndiphiwe Mhlakuvana says that during the incident, five suspects were […]
# Food and Allied Workers Union members in the sugar manufacturing and refining industry have resumed strike action, following a deadlock in wage negotiations. Hundreds of workers have stayed away from their posts at mills and related operations, mainly in KwaZulu-Natal and other sugar-growing areas. FAWU, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union and the […]
# Union federation Cosatu says the National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s governance woes are spilling over to administrative processes, in turn, affecting thousands of students. Last week, a ruling by the High Court in Pretoria reinstated the dissolved NSFAS board and declared the appointment of professor Hlengani Mathebula as administrator irrational. Cosatu’s spokesperson, Nonzuzo Dlamini, […]
