LIVE: Ramokgopa announces load reduction interventions
Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa is briefing the media briefing on interventions aimed at ending load reduction. LIVE STREAM:
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Gauteng Transport cracks down on lawlessness in taxi industry
File: A minibus is pulled over at a Gauteng roadblock. The Gauteng Transport Department is cracking down on lawlessness in the taxi industry, removing dozens of unroadworthy minibuses from the road and finding hundreds of drivers without operating licences. A further 184 minibus drivers were found operating without valid driver’s licences. The operation comes amid…
SAPOHR rejects plan to block cellphone signals at Pollsmoor Prison
Person using a cellphone The South African Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) has criticised a proposal by Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis for cellphone signal-blocking technology to be used at Pollsmoor Prison. In a formal letter to Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald, the mayor says inmates are using mobile phones to orchestrate crime from…
Mpumalanga woman accused of possessing human tissue granted bail
Judge’s chair and gavel in a courtroom. The 39-year-old woman arrested for the alleged possession of human tissue in Lydenburg, Mpumalanga, has been granted bail of R10 000. Rose Mnisi appeared in the Mashishing Magistrate’s Court. Mnisi, who is reported to be working in the Lydenburg Hospital’s maternity ward, was allegedly found in possession of…
11 alleged abalone poachers and smugglers arrested in WC
Millions of rands worth of abalone have been caught in two separate instances in the Western cape by police. Fisheries Minister Dion George has welcomed the arrest of alleged abalone poachers and smugglers in two separate incidents in the Western Cape this week. Police intercepted a truck near Rawsonville in the Boland on Monday and…
Treatment Action Campaign warns against shutdown of UNAIDS
[File Image] A student displays his hands painted with messages as he poses during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign to mark the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, in Chandigarh, India, on May 20, 2018. The civil society organization Treatment Action Campaign has raised concerns over the plans to shut down UNAIDS, a United Nations body that coordinates the…
Molefe Morutse re-elected as Ditsobotla Local Municipality Mayor
Ditsobotla Municipality head office building The embattled Ditsobotla Local Municipality council has re-elected Molefe Morutse as Mayor. This move comes after national government intervened to address the municipality’s chronic governance and administrative failures, including financial mismanagement and service delivery breakdowns. Earlier this month, the national Department of Cooperative Governance visited the troubled municipality and instructed…
WC govt monitors closed taxi routes amid shooting incidents
FILE | Minibus taxis at a rank. The Western Cape Department of Mobility says they are continuing to monitor six closed taxi routes in the Somerset West area. The 30-day route closures are between Mfuleni, Somerset West, Khayelitsha, Nomzamo and Lwandle. The closures came into effect following the killing of at least eight people in…
Napoleon Nyalunga to be sentenced for German tourist’s murder
Napoleon Nyalunga to be sentenced for German tourist’s murder
Government doesn’t have an answer to ‘jobs bloodbath’: Vavi
SAFTU General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi addresses workers during a General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) meeting. The South African Federation of Trade Union (Saftu) President Zwelinzima Vavi says workers are facing a job-loss “bloodbath” in the face of the current retrenchments across different sectors in the country. Vavi says to address the issue…