Deputy Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Sihle Zikalala. 2 minutes Government says additional capital investment for infrastructure projects will increase to more than R500 billion. This follows the allocation of an additional financial injection in the R300 billion infrastructure development plan that was announced in 2020. This announcement was made by the Deputy Minister…
The Constitutional Court has ruled that men may assume their wives’ surnames, declaring Section 26(1)(a) to (c) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act unconstitutional insofar as it unfairly discriminates on the basis of gender, by failing to afford men the right to assume the surname of women after marriage. JUSTIN: The ConCourt has confirmed that…
Community members gather for UNITE party’s mass meeting in Kliptown, Soweto. GOOD Party leader and Minister of Tourism Patricia de Lille has called on citizens to vote out the current government. This is despite the party being a member of the Government of National Unity. De Lille was speaking at a mass meeting of the…
2 minutes A family in Magogoe village, Mahikeng, is demanding justice after their seven-year-old son developed ongoing health issues, allegedly due to corporal punishment at Dikakanyo Primary School. The boy, who was in Grade One at the time of the incident in July last year, now suffers from severe migraines. His mother claims the child…
Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith 1 minute The Police Commercial Crimes Unit have raided the offices of the Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member for Safety and Security JP Smith. Police spokesperson Andre Traut says they are conducting further probes into housing tender fraud in the construction sector within the…
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba ActionSA has launched the Tshwane Mayor’s Performance Tracker to monitor service delivery in the City. ActionSA is in a multi-party coalition and its councillor Nasiphi Moya is the City’s executive mayor. The Performance Tracker is available on the party’s website and tracks real-time performance across all wards, including turnaround times, unresolved…
Volkswagen employee works on a production line for the Golf VIII and Tiguan cars. 1 minute Manufacturing production in South Africa has declined by 0,8% on an annual basis in September for a second consecutive month. The data released by Stats SA showed that on a monthly basis, manufacturing production was flat in September compared…
Proteas win against England in London. South Africa have crushed England at Headingley in Leeds in the first of three One Day Internationals. The Proteas beat their hosts by seven wickets in a match that didn’t even last 50 overs in total. England who were put into bat, were bowled out for 131 inside 25…
Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg. 1 minute The Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg has failed to spend R98-million of its budget for machinery and equipment in the last five years. This is contained in a written reply to a question to Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko by the DA’s Gauteng Health spokesperson Jack Bloom in…
Leinster Rugby players celebrating their win 1 minute The Bulls will have to wait another year to see whether they can break their United Rugby Championship title drought. Irish powerhouse Leinster won their first title since the 2020/2021 season, beating the Pretoria-based franchise 32-7 at Croke Park in Dublin. Leinster started like a house on…
