The implosion of the marriage of convenience between Patricia de Lille’s Independent Democrats (ID) and the DA was a long time coming because the two are not cut from the same philosophical cloth. This is political analyst Daniel Silke’s assessment of the rift between De Lille and the DA, which[…]
More than 100 owners of RDP houses in Dunoon face hefty fines or imprisonment for building rooms to rent, without permission from City authorities. The City of Cape Town has sent notices to the owners, warning them they have breached the Municipal Planning By-Law, GroundUp reported. Several property entrepreneurs breached[…]
Ousted Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille says the DA’s decision to kick her out of the party is an admission that it did not have sufficient evidence for her disciplinary hearing. As in most divorces‚ a bruising court battle is looming after De Lille lodged papers in the Cape[…]
Corporate social investment (CSI) has the power to bring about social justice and to end poverty‚ inequality and unemployment. This is according to former public protector Thuli Madonsela‚ who was delivering a keynote address at the eleventh annual Trialogue Business in Society Conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday. “Business is in[…]
African National Congress (ANC) MP and former Deputy Minister of Higher Education Mduduzi Manana says he’s instructed his lawyer to file extortion charges against the family of his former domestic worker, Catherine Wiro. This follows reports that Wiro was offered R100 000 to withdraw an assault case against Manana. Wiro[…]
The parliamentary joint committee on constitutional review has so far received 140 000 written submissions about possible changes to land ownership rights and will request the National Assembly extend the deadline to report back by August 30, according to co-chairperson Vincent Smith. The written submissions and request for oral submissions[…]
A cold front that brought heavy overnight rain to Cape Town has not resulted in significant flooding says a City official, but traffic has been heavy on the roads. “It’s just been a normal winter rainfall for the city. There’s no flooding at this stage,” Charlotte Powell, spokesperson for the[…]
Five MPs which include the Economic Freedom Fighters’s leader Julius Malema, NCOP Chairperson Thandi Modise, Thoko Didiza, Mandla Mandela and Santosh Vinita are to be sworn in as members of Pan African Parliament on Monday. PAP president, Roger Nkodo Dang, will conduct the ceremony as the continental body’s sixth Ordinary[…]
In an attempt to break the stalemate in the nationwide bus strike, the Bargaining Council and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration have put a new wage proposal on the table. The workers are demanding a 9.5 % wage increase this year and 9% next year. Bus companies have[…]
“IsiQalo” means ‘the beginning’ in isiXhosa. Residents of Siqalo informal settlement near Mitchells Plain, though, will have to wait a while still to see if they will be given a new beginning, as the land they are on is privately owned and apparently prone to flooding. Their future hangs in[…]
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