Picture of aluminum cables. City Power has revealed that it recently recovered about 150 kilograms of aluminium cables that are normally used in their streetlight infrastructure, worth R250 000. The cables were found and confiscated during the power utility’s cut-off operation with law enforcement authorities, in Kya Sands, north of Johannesburg. City Power says in an…
FILE IMAGE: Nehawu members on strike. Hundreds of members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in Gauteng are expected to march to the provincial Department of Health in Johannesburg on Friday to deliver a memorandum of demands. The anticipated march dubbed the Provincial Day of Action is said to be related…
South Africa’s Ambassador to France Nathi Mthethwa Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Alvin Botes says the family of the late Ambassador Nathi Mthethwa has formally identified his body in Paris on Thursday. Botes, who was part of a government delegation to visit the Mthethwa family in Kwambonambi in northern KwaZulu-Natal, has described Mthethwa…
Free State Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae. The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the Free State is calling for Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae to step down together with her cabinet. In a leaked statement to the media, the League says Letsoha-Mathae has failed the youth and the entire province by trampling upon the principles of consultation…
India’s Mohammed Siraj poses after winning the player of the match award after India won the match to draw the International Test Match Series against England at Kia Oval in London, Britain. India’s Mohammed Siraj ripped through the West Indies top order with a fiery opening spell to claim three wickets and leave the tourists…
[FILE IMAGE]: Yanga Mputa giving a Public Lecture on “Making Taxpayers Rights Matter”. Ms Mputa was hosted by the Faculty of Law at UJ. The Office of the Tax Ombud has found that eFiling profile hijacking is most prevalent among tax practitioners and individual taxpayers. The draft eFiling profile hijacking report notes that the majority…
A worker harvests grapes at the La Motte wine farm in Franschoek near Cape Town, South Africa Experts have warned that uncertainty over jobs and trade still hangs over South Africa following the expiration of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). Political economist Professor Patrick Bond says in the absence of any relief on…
Katiso “KT” Molefe appeared in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg, August 20. The legal defense in the case against Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe says the state is drawing influence from a base of speculation. This was heard during his bail appeal at the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday. This comes after Molefe was denied…
The newly rebuilt Central Fire Station in Johannesburg. The official opening of the newly built fire station in the Johannesburg CBD has been described as a significant step towards improved public safety and faster emergency response times. With the city’s population rapidly increasing, authorities believe there is a growing need for innovative and efficient service…
Court gavel. The Johannesburg High Court has reserved judgment in the bail denial appeal judgment of murder accused, Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe. He is appealing the decision made by the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court to deny him bail, saying that he is not a danger to society nor is he a flight risk. Molefe is accused of…
