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 […]
Blade Nzimande, South Africa’s higher education minister, on Tuesday announced that the current student debt owed to tertiary institutions stood at around R16.5 billion. Minister Blade Nzimande has emphasised that the extent of student debt posed a serious threat to the future sustainability of the country’s higher education institutions. Nzimande, South Africa’s higher education minister, […]
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 […]