The IFP-led administration in Richards Bay said that at least R198 million would be spent to refurbish a local soccer stadium and a fitness center. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came out to defend a recently approved a R600 million loan to the City of uMhlathuze, KwaZulu-Natal, saying it would prioritise revenue-generating infrastructure programmes. The […]
DA members in Gauteng will be marching to the ruling party’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning. In Cape Town, they will take their protest to the ANC’s provincial office in Cape Town’s CBD on Wednesday afternoon. The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape and Gauteng is expected to take to the […]
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis welcomed Treasury’s decision to exempt the city from competitive bidding or tendering to buy power from homes and businesses. Efforts by the City of Cape Town to become the first “load shedding” free metro are gaining traction, as it’s now allowed to buy electricity back from private suppliers. “We have exemption and […]
Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana said that those who wanted to generate power and add to the constrained grid no longer had regulatory obstacles and were welcome to actively participate. Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana said that it was not up to Eskom alone to add new generation capacity to the grid to help end […]
The official opposition’s legal challenge of the governing party’s cadre deployment and development policy kicked off in the Pretoria High Court on Monday. Counsel for the Democratic Alliance (DA) has compared the African National Congress (ANC)’s cadre deployment and development policy to a “cancer” The official opposition’s legal challenge of the governing party’s cadre deployment […]
The NPA wants to prosecute Atul and Rajesh Gupta for the alleged siphoning off of state funds in a botched R25 million rural development project. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said that the absence of Gupta brothers, Rajesh and Atul, from the start of Nulane corruption trial at the Bloemfontein High Court on Monday morning […]
They have, once again, called for the head of Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, whose ministry is expected to take over the political responsibility of Eskom. Opposition political parties rejected Eskom’s apparent plans for indefinite power cuts with “contempt.” Parties, including the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Congress of the People (Cope), again, called for […]
In his first weekly newsletter for 2023, Ramaphosa said the country needed to be realistic about its problems. President Cyril Ramaphosa says load shedding cannot be stopped overnight, but that he understands the frustration the power cuts are causing South Africans. In his first weekly newsletter for 2023, Ramaphosa said the country needed to be […]
Eighteen-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was killed last Thursday afternoon, just hours before he was due to receive his matric results. A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Mitchells Plain teenager. Eighteen-year-old Wakeel Dreyer was killed last Thursday afternoon, just hours before he was due to receive his matric results. Gunmen fired […]
The 53-year-old man, who cannot be named at this stage, is facing over 700 counts of rape, sex trafficking and child pornography The trial of a man accused of being part of a sex ring with prominent human rights lawyer Paul Kennedy is set to begin in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday morning. The […]