File image: Aerial view of Komati Power Station. 2 minutes Eskom General Manager for Just Transition, Dr Vikesh Rajpaul says the power utility has learnt a lot from the decommissioning of the Komati Power Station in Mpumalanga. Speaking to SABC News at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Rajpaul says Eskom is in the process of re-purposing…
Maile and other stakeholders 2 minutes Gauteng MEC for Finance and Economic Development Lebogang Maile has assured business owners that his department will ensure that municipalities meet the 21-day deadline for the registration of spaza shops. This follows concerns brought by business owners on the time frame. Speaking during a media briefing in Johannesburg, MEC…
[FILE IMAGE] Spaza shop. 3 minutes Spaza shop owners in Gqeberha have begun the registration process to ensure they comply with the health and safety standards within the 21 days stipulated by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Since September, 890 incidents of food-borne illnesses have been reported nationwide, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal leading the field. Spaza owners…
Electricity and Energy Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa briefs the media on the prepaid meter re-coding and the Integrated Resource Plan on November 20, 2024. 1 minute Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says there will be no extension for prepaid electricity consumers to re-code their meters should they fail to do it by November 24….
SARS offices 1 minute The South African Revenue Service (SARS) says it has successfully processed more than 1.9 million tax directives for pension fund withdrawals under the two-pot retirement system, to the tune of nearly R50-billion as of the 18th of November. In a statement, SARS says close to 170 000 applications were declined for…
The combat-readiness marrying up drill rehearsals build up to the exercise’s Distinguished Visitors Day capability demonstration taking place on Thursday 21 November 2024. 2 minutes The Office of the Auditor General (AG) has painted a bleak picture about the state of affairs at the Department of Defence and Military Veterans. The AG’s office briefed the…
File Image: Lily Mine was closed after part of it collapsed in 2016 leaving Solomon Nyirenda, Yvonne, Mnisi and Pretty Yende trapped underground. 1 minute Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe says operations will resume at the Lily Mine in Mpumalanga. The mine made headlines in 2016 when the crown pillar between the roof of underground…
Mine shaft at the Stilfontein in the North West where illegal mining takes place. 2 minutes An attorney at the Right2Protest Project at Wits University’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Felix Quibe, says the State can argue that assisting illegal miners would be tantamount to aiding and abetting criminality. He was speaking ahead of today’s hearing…
A trolley packed with goods in a supermarket. 1 minute As Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) prepares to release the October Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) numbers on Wednesday, analysts anticipate that inflation could drop as low as 3% from the 3.8% recorded in September 2024. They note that South Africa’s consumer price inflation has reached…
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu’s walkabout at Stilfontein mine shaft on November 15, 2024. 1 minute The High Court in Pretoria is today expected to hear the main application over the stand-off between illegal miners and police at a mine in Stilfontein in the North West. The organisation, Society for the Protection of our Constitution, approached…
