Plans by the newly elected Amathole district municipality’s political leadership to implement long-standing salary increases for the district’s workforce have been dampened by the provincial treasury, which advised the municipality that its plans were not affordable. The new ADM troika, after meeting protesting employees last week, agreed to effect the more than 6.
Just days after cable thieves ripped up paving, shattered cement and dug trenches into the grass to strip the Eastern Beach of valuable metal, East London’s beachfront was again targeted on Monday night, with more debris and damage left behind. In a bid to fight the cable and copper theft incidents gripping the city, the Buffalo City Municipality on Tuesday announced it planned to patrol the affected areas and raid scrap metal dealers around the city.
Mdantsane taxi operators received death threats before Wednesday's shooting that left four people dead, including the alleged assassin and an innocent bystander.
The parents of the victims of the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy have given the authorities until Friday to tell them what killed their children in Scenery Park on June 26, after repeated failed promises they would be given answers. Premier Oscar Mabuyane made a pronouncement on August 4 that the final toxicology results had been received from a Cape Town laboratory.