# The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa is meeting plastics sector employers for a third round of wage talks. In the two day talks, NUMSA is demanding a ten-percent wage increase, a one-year deal, and the scrapping of area-based pay differences. Employers have tabled a zero-percent increase and a four-year agreement. NUMSA national […]
# Gauteng Law Enforcement agencies arrested 419 suspects during High-Density Operations and Operation Shanela this past weekend. Arrests were made across Ekurhuleni, Tshwane, Johannesburg, West Rand, and Sedibeng. Charges ranged from drunk driving, drug possession, illegal mining, to contravening immigration laws. Community Safety spokesperson Ofentse Morwane says thousands of people and vehicles were searched:
# Johannesburg Emergency Management Services urges residents to use heating devices safely after four children under the age of two-years died in a house fire in Mayfair this morning. This comes as cold weather conditions are expected from Wednesday. EMS spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi says during search and rescue operations, the children’s bodies were discovered and […]
# City Power vier energiemaand met die herdenking van een jaar sedert die John Ware gasturbine-kragstasie in Fordsburg, Johannesburg weer in gebruik geneem is. Die City Power-woordvoerder Isaac Mangena sê die kragstasie vervaardig nou tot 18 megawatt per turbine en is ‘n belangrike deel van die stad se tienpunt-energieplan om minder afhanklik van Eskom te […]
# Sokker: Die UDM het Suid-Afrika se nasioinale Onder-20-span, Amajita, geprys nadat hy gisteraand in Egipte die eerste keer die Onder-20 Afrikabeker-titel gewen het. Amajita het die prestasie behaal ‘n volle 28-jaar nadat hulle in 1997 die eindstryd van die jeug-toernooi teen Marokko verloor het. UDM se waarnemende sekretaris-generaal, Zandile Phiri, het belegging in grondvlaksport […]
# Business Leadership South Africa sê dringende hervorming en ‘n geloofwaardige begroting is nodig om die sukkelende ekonomie te red. In haar weeklikse nuusbrief het die uitvoerende hoof Busi Mavuso gesê in vandeesweek se hersiene begroting moet uitgawes balanseer sonder verdere skuld. Mavuso waarsku belastinginkomste is minder en die regering moet minder noodsaaklike programme besnoei […]
# City Power is marking energy month by celebrating one year since the recommissioning of the John Ware gas turbine power station in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says the facility now produces up to 18 megawatts per turbine and is a key part of the city’s ten-point energy plan aimed at reducing […]
# Eskom het planne aangekondig om satelliete te gebruik om ongeregistreerde sonpaneelinstallasies regoor Suid-Afrika te identifiseer. Die stap volg na kommer oor die impak van ongeregistreerde stelsels op die nasionale elektrisiteitsinfrastruktuur. Die inisiatief het ten doel om nakoming van regulasies te verseker wat vereis dat alle sonpanele wat aan die netwerk gekoppel is, geregistreer moet […]
# Soccer: The United Democratic Movement has hailed South Africa’s Under-20 national team, Amajita, for winning the Under-20 AFCON title for the first time, in Egypt last night. Amajita wrote their redemption story 28-years later since they last reached the final of the continental youth showpiece in 1997 suffering defeat to Morocco. UDM’s acting secretary-general, […]
