File image: Commuters at a taxi rank. 2 minutes KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has urged striking taxi associations in Durban to stop inconveniencing commuters and to rather take their grievances to the relevant department. The Durban Long Distance Taxi Association has been striking since last week over the issuing of permits and the impounding…
A bunch of alcohol bottles wait to be filled and labelled ahead of packaging. 2 minutes The National Liquor Traders Council Convenor Lucky Ntimane says their members managed to meet their sales targets in December. Ntimane says the festive always presents an opportunity for traders to increase their sales. “I think the festive season will…
1 minute Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition says the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is on the verge of collapse. Among the problems it highlighted was the agency’s inability to carry out basic functions such as product testing. The Committee visited the agency’s headquarters in Pretoria on Monday. Committee member Toby…
An Eskom customer service centre 2 minutes Residents at Siyandhani near Giyani in Limpopo have closed the Eskom customer service offices to protest against load reduction. The residents are calling for answers for the implementation of load reduction in their area. They allege that Eskom implemented load reduction without warning, despite promising to do assessments…
A delegation from Afriforum, Solidariteit, and the Solidarity Movement met with representatives of the US administration in Washington. 2 minutes The Chairperson of the Foundations Preparatory Committee Nkosinathi Biko says it is annoying to misrepresent the situation in South Africa for the popular benefit of what he says is a handful of conservative organisations. Biko, who sits on the preparatory committee for the upcoming national…
File photo: Deliberation in the eThekwini Municipality Council chambers. 2 minutes The DA in KwaZulu-Natal says the slur by an unidentified councillor at an eThekwini council meeting last week was a vicious and calculated attack against the South African Indian community. It emerged that the councillor in question yelled “Go back to Bombay” at DA…
VBS branch 1 minute Disgruntled VBS Mutual Bank depositors have expressed outrage at the news that municipalities who deposited money in the collapsed bank, would be the first to be reimbursed. This follows the recovery of R670 million by the liquidators of the collapsed bank. The recovery of the money by liquidators had brought hope…
Source: © SA the Good News SA the Good News Carrie Delaney, managing director, Mscsports (Pty) Ltd, says sponsorship isn’t just about a branding exercise; it’s about creating shared experiences that resonate with our collective identity When brands back events like the Rugby World Cup, the Soweto Derby, or even smaller community-driven initiatives, they are…
1 minute The man, who manipulated images of prominent people, including the President, by superimposing their faces onto pornographic content before distributing them, has been jailed. The Pietermaritzburg Regional Court has sentenced Thabiso Nene to five years in prison for contravening the Cybercrimes Act. Nene unlawfully downloaded images of the president, a former police minister,…
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs sit on a shelf in the pharmacy at the Ubuntu clinic in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. 1 minute The Western Cape Government says it welcomes measures announced by the National Department of Health, to ensure that HIV/AIDS services and treatment can continue uninterrupted. This follows the 90-day suspension of some foreign aid by…
