# The Tshwane Metro Police Department says it continues to intensify visible policing operations to enforce compliance with traffic laws across all roads in the metro. On Sunday and Monday, the TMPD Freeway and Pedestrian Unit arrested 17 pedestrians for unlawfully entering and crossing the N1 freeway at Stormvoel. TMPD’s spokesperson, Puleng Motholo, says such […]
# The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union says it denounces attempts by a coalition of big capital and right-wing elements to thwart and delay the full implementation of the National Health Insurance Act. The Constitutional Court is hearing a challenge brought by the Board of Healthcare Funders on whether Parliament met its constitutional […]
# Afrika-Wêrelderfenisdag word gevier met ‘n oproep om die vasteland se kulturele en natuurlike skatte te beskerm. Die dag, wat in 2015 deur die Unesco uitgeroep is, beklemtoon die kontinent se bedreigings, soos onbeheerde ontwikkeling, stropery, burgerlike onrus en onbestendigheid, wat die besondere universele waarde van die vasteland in gevaar stel. Hierdie jaar word die […]
# Die leier van die National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, sê hy sal homself môre teen sy sin by ‘n polisiestasie aanmeld. Dit volg nadat die polisie se taakspan vir politieke moorde hom beveel het om homself oor te gee na ‘n lasbrief vir sy inhegtenisneming. Dit hou verband met die ondersoek na die moord […]
# Die DA verwelkom die ingryping van die minister van Gesondheid, Aaron Motsoaledi, wat tydelike uitstel verseker vir 176 geestesgesondheidspasiënte wat op 14 Mei uit die Talisman-stigting gesit sou word. Jack Bloom van die DA sê hierdie stap verhoed nog ‘n Life Esidimeni-tragedie toe 144 psigiatriese pasiënte gesterf het na hul onwettige oordrag na ongelisensieerde […]
# The minister of agriculture, John Steenhuisen, says South Africa has significantly expanded its foot-and-mouth disease vaccination programme, securing millions of doses from Argentina and Turkey while boosting local production. Speaking at Parliament today, he says more than 2.5-million animals have already been vaccinated nationwide. He says the department aims to reach 80-percent of the […]
# The leader of the National Coloured Congress, Fadiel Adams, says he will present himself at a police station under protest tomorrow. This follows after the police’s political killings task team ordered him to hand himself over following a warrant for his arrest. This is linked to the probe into the 2017 murder of ANC […]
# African World Heritage Day is being marked with a call to protect the continent’s cultural and natural treasures. Proclaimed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation in 2015, the day highlights threats faced by the continent such as uncontrolled development, poaching, civil unrest and instability, risking losing their outstanding universal value. This […]
# Die Good-party vra die Wes-Kaapse Onderwysdepartement om dringend aandag te gee aan die ernstige oorbevolking van klaskamers in die Kaapse Wynland. Woordvoerder Andrew Hess sê groeiende leerdergetalle plaas druk op skoolinfrastruktuur en beïnvloed die onderriggehalte. Hy waarsku oorvol klaskamers stel die leeromstandighede en onderwyserdoeltreffendheid in gevaar. Hess dring aan op onmiddellike ingryping, insluitend die […]
