More than 5-million South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries receiving their grants at the South African Post Office (Sapo) might be forced to get their payouts elsewhere as the entity's business rescue practitioners have proposed the discontinuation of the service.
Buffalo City Metro, desperate to solve its cash flow problems, wants either the provincial or national government to reimburse it for millions it spent upgrading Settlers Way from the Fleet Street police station to King Phalo Airport.But both the provincial and national governments said the R72 stretch in question did not belong to them and they had no agreements with the city before the upgrade.
South Africa's biggest poultry producer Astral Foods swung to a full-year loss on Monday, as an ongoing electricity crisis and the country's worst bird flu outbreak cost the company R2bn.
The police destroyed drugs with a street value of R800m Thursday morning. Presiding over the process, police national commissioner, Gen Fanie Masemola, said this was the third time, within a year, the SAPS had destroyed drugs, which included cocaine, heroin, mandrax and marijuana. Masemola highlighted that the drugs were confiscated during Operation Shanela, where police officers conduct regular roadblocks, patrols, stop and searches, cordon and searches, high visibility patrols, com.