Tshwane says excessive water use putting system under strain
Water in buckets during a water crisis. The City of Tshwane says excessive household water…
Tshwane says excessive water use putting system under strain
Water in buckets during a water crisis. The City of Tshwane says excessive household water consumption is placing its water supply system under severe strain. Areas including Hammanskraal West, Mamelodi Extension 10, Irene, Danville and Soshanguve South have been identified as some of the biggest contributors to the spike. Spokesperson Selby Bokaba says the average…
Ad Hoc committee set to request yet another extension
Parliament’s Ad-Hoc Committee Chairperson Molapi Lekganyane. Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee in Cape Town will consider to request another extension on its deadline. The committee, established to probe allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system, has already been granted two extensions. Its original deadline was end of October last year….
Investigators were not specific on the date Meyiwa was killed: Ntanzi
Two of the accused in the Meyiwa murder trial. Accused number 2 in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, Bongani Ntanzi, says investigators were not specific on the date the soccer captain was killed when they asked for his alibi. Ntanzi, who is on trial with four others for the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain,…
Safety concerns halt use of mobile classrooms at MP school
File Image of a school. Parents of learners enrolled at Tsandzanani Primary School in Matsulu, in Mpumalanga, are appealing to the provincial Education Department, to finish the school project. They say the school was left incomplete in 2014, with a shortage of six classrooms, toilets, a library and an administrative block. The school is struggling…
AfriForum slams ‘catastrophic failure’ in Mbense murder case
AfriForum Spokesperson Barry Bateman. AfriForum Private Prosecution Unit’s Barry Bateman has criticised the slow pace of prosecution in the Emmanuel Mbense murder case, calling it a catastrophic failure. His remarks follow the death of former police reservist, Wiandre Pretorius who committed suicide on Saturday at a filling station in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni. Pretorius was implicated in…
Nkabinde Enquiry expected to seek postponement due to witness absence
Outgoing National Prosecuting Authority head, Advocate Shamila Batohi. Evidence leaders at the Nkabinde enquiry in Pretoria will today apply for a postponement until next week Tuesday due to the absence of additional witnesses. This follows the conclusion of testimony by former KwaZulu-Natal Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Moipone Noko, on Friday. The enquiry is investigating…
City Power urges home businesses to change to business classification
City Power offices in Johannesburg. Johannesburg’s City Power is calling on all customers who are running full-time businesses from properties registered as residential to change to a business classification. This has a significate impact on the tariffs they are charged. Residential tariffs are designed and priced based on normal household consumption patterns, while business tariffs have higher consistent electricity usage…
UWC students stage protest over outstanding residence placements
The administration building of the University of the Western Cape. Students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have shut down the campus, blocking vehicles coming in and out demanding accommodation. Student Representative Council (SRC) President, Mcntosh Khasembe, says there are about 4 000 students that still need to be placed in residences. They are…
Suspended Ekurhuleni legal head denies interacting with Witness D
Suspended Ekurhuleni Head of Legal and Risk Services Advocate Kemi Behari says he has never interacted with witness D also known as Marius van der Merwe and the allegations against him are unfounded. Van der Merwe was killed in an apparent hit in Boksburg last year. Behari has on Monday morning taken to the stand at…
Application for postponement Nkabinde Enquiry opposed
Court room gavel and a book. An application for a postponement by evidence leaders in the Nkabinde Enquiry has been opposed by legal representatives for suspended South Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions, Advocate Andrew Chauke The evidence leaders requested a postponement to next week, citing the absence of key witnesses. They also stressed that legal…
