SA National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers were deployed to calm violent clashes between taxi operators and the police on Monday, which had caused more than 100 voting stations in the Eastern Cape to remain closed.
Buffalo City Metro is pinning its hopes on a “consortium of outside experts” to deal with the many challenges relating to infrastructure development and maintenance, which will cost a projected R25 million a year.
This may sound like a broken record, but several decades after it was first proposed and nine years after a sod-turning ceremony, the first phase of the Mzimvubu water project will finally commence in the new financial year in April. This was one of the promises made by President Cyril Ramaphosa regarding the Eastern Cape when he delivered his state of the nation address in Cape Town on Thursday evening.
The lengthy cold war over claims of alleged racism, nepotism and favouritism at the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) East London office has found its way to the Constitutional Court, with the matter set to be decided by a panel of justices on a date yet to be confirmed. The case, from 2019, involved three Indian, a coloured and a white administrator going to court in a bid to interdict a group of five “concerned” black prosecutors and a trade union from making defamatory statements .
South Africa, its state of disaster made official, is to have a minister of electricity in the presidency whose job is to end load-shedding. This was the news the nation was waiting for on Thursday night, and the moment President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the state of disaster during his State of the Nation Address (Sona), his audience in the Cape Town City Hall cheered.