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[File]The City of Tshwane susbtation The City of Tshwane has begun implementing measures to stabilise its electricity infrastructure following years of underinvestment.   Executive Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya says they have begun rebuilding technical capacity after years of under-financing and repeated infrastructure failures that have affected residents and businesses.   She says dozens of vacancies in the electricity department have already…

Confiscated unlicensed firearms. Security analyst Professor Jacob Mofokeng says testimony at the Madlanga Commission has exposed deep structural problems in the SAPS forensic lab. A senior forensic analyst from the police, Captain Laurance Makgotloe told the commission earlier Monday that inaccuracies in the ballistic report he authored in the Armand Swart murder case were errors…

The Ad Hoc Committee established to investigate allegations made by the SAPS KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, is scheduled to hear from four witnesses at its public hearings on Tuesday. LIVE STREAM:

President Cyril Ramaphosa. President Cyril Ramaphosa could still be asked to appear before Parliament’s Ad Hoc committee, investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system, to account before lawmakers on the disbandment of the Political Killings Task Team (PKTT). Committee chair Soviet Lekganyane says the President’s name, along with senior…

The Department of Human Settlements hosts a two-day Presidential Summit on Innovative Building Technologies at Nasrec, Johannesburg. The event aims to advance and showcase innovative, sustainable, climate-resilient and scalable construction solutions that support dignified housing and the eradication of informal settlements and mud houses. LIVE STREAM:

[FILE] IEC voting station Polls opened in two by-elections taking place on Tuesday across parts of the Western Cape.   In the Cederberg area, voting stations have been set up in Ward 12; at Graafwater at the Graafwater Special School; at in Elands Bay at the community hall on Main Road and at the Sandberg…