FILE | SANDF members. The Cape Flats Safety Forum (CFSF) has reiterated its call for the deployment of the army in gang-infested areas on the Cape Flats. This comes as several areas in Cape Town continue to grapple with high levels of gang-related shootings, which have claimed the lives of many people. In the latest…
Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe Public.
G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at Nasrec Expo Centre in Johannesburg on February 20, 2025. 1 minute The Finance Track four-day meetings of the G20 will start in Cape Town today. The meetings will take place after the unprecedented postponement of the tabling of the budget to March 12. The postponement has raised concerns over the…
Klipdrift Water Treatment project Residents in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria have raised concerns regarding the ongoing inconsistent water supply of Phase two of the Klipdrift Water Treatment project. Some of the affected areas include Majaneng, Kudube units, Jubilee Tower, Jubilee Direct, and Dominican Tower. The module is designed to supply 12 -point 5 mega-litres of…
File: Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Eastern Cape has submitted over 38 000 individual objections to Arts and Culture Minister, Gayton Mckenzie, on the geographical name changes of five towns in the province. The party says the name changes were implemented without proper consultations with residents…
Chairperson and commissioners at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry in Pretoria. The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is expecting a new witness to take the stand on Monday morning. The Commission was established by President Cyril Ramaphosa following allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, last year. Mkhwanazi accused some of the top SAPS…
File image: Pupils enter into their scholar transport 2 minutes Scholar transport operators in the Eastern Cape have threatened to take the provincial government to court about their outstanding payments. They claim not have been paid since, January. According to the operators they have lost confidence in the Transport MEC, Xolile Nqatha and his Department…
Flysafair plane seen in the air. More than 200 FlySafair pilots are set to embark on a two-week strike starting from Monday. Trade union Solidarity says this comes after the employer was given a notice to strike following a deadlock in wage negotiations. The union has rejected the airline’s 5.7% proposed salary increase. It’s demanding…
Files The Gauteng Department of Health says plans are underway to digitise a minimum of 800 million paper-based patient records across all 37 hospitals in the province. This project started at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, where 800 000 patient files have so far been digitised. The initiative aims to make patient records…
City Power CEO, Tshifularo Mashava The board of Johannesburg City Power has cleared its CEO Tshifularo Mashava of allegations of nepotism, unqualified appointments and irregular procurement processes. The entity says investigations conducted by an independent law firm found no facts to substantiate the allegations that the CEO inflated payments to contractors. City Power Spokesperson Isaac…
