The Commissioner of the SA Competition Commission, Tembinkosi Bonakele, has questioned how the fishing industry is being regulated. Bonakele has addressed delegates at a seminar on the Fishing Rights Allocation Process for 2020underway in Somerset West near Cape Town. The two-day seminar which ends on Wednesday is being hosted by the[…]
The SABC is still struggling to meet all of its financial obligations. The SABC says Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has made a loan guarantee request of R3.2billion for the cash strapped public broadcaster. The newly appointed SABC board was introduced to staff on Tuesday. SABC Board Chairperson Bongumusa Makhathini says although it can[…]
The first time pint-sized teenager Amiena Pillay drove in a fire truck, she knew she would one day fulfil her dream of battling infernos in the coveted uniform. Within four years, she has completed two seasonal firefighting stints and was one of 91 fully-trained members of the 2018 intake whom[…]
One suspect has been arrested in connection with a devastating Cape Town train fire which gutted carriages on Sunday. Cape Town Central train station was engulfed by flames and pandemonium on Sunday afternoon when a MetroRail train, stopped at Platform 19, was set ablaze. Emergency services rushed to the scene but were[…]
The row that just won’t quit has resurfaced over the past seven days. Patricia de Lille and the DA have renewed hostilities like it’s 2018 all over again. Aunty Pat has asked the Western Cape High Court to launch an interdict, preventing her former party from “spreading lies” about her. The[…]
Trevor Manuel says his court battle with the Economic Freedom Fighters is not only to clear his name, but also to protect the integrity of National Treasury and the SA Revenue Service. The former finance minister filed a founding affidavit at the high court in Johannesburg on April 10 against[…]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking his Defence and State Security Ministers to the emergency meeting. President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Egypt on Tuesday for an urgent African Union Troika to discuss the worsening political and security situations in Libya and Sudan. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has called an Emergency Summit in[…]
As waste landfills around the Western Cape continue to fill up, environmental affairs and development planning MEC Anton Bredell has called on citizens to do even more to save the environment on annual Earth Day, to be celebrated on April 22. “Climate change and global warming are the result of[…]
Although the Palestinian soccer team missed an opportunity to compete in the Bayhill Premier Cup in Belhar, the Khanyounis FC will still be participating in a friendly match with the Bayhill Team at Erica Park at 11am on Monday. The Cape Town International Airport was adorned in Palestinian colours and[…]
The prototype of a planned new fleet for Metrorail, which President Cyril Ramaphosa recently attended the launch of, was not damaged during a blaze on Sunday at Cape Town train station. The blue and white prototypes of trains, expected to replace the ageing sets, stood undamaged near the entrance to[…]
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