Graphic: John McCann Because the world marks World E book and Copyright Day on 23 April, I discover myself reflecting on plenty of points that lie on the coronary heart of information creation, cultural preservation, and mental justice in South Africa. First, I replicate on the transformative energy of books. Books have lengthy served as…
Capitec studies headline earnings progress of 23% to R16.8 billion, celebrates R1 billion in shopper financial savings, and enters its subsequent chapter as a diversified monetary companies group constructed on the belief of 26 million South Africans Capitec opened its doorways 25 years in the past with a easy perception: banking ought to be easy,…
Fannie Masemola, the nationwide police commissioner, has denied receiving monetary gratification from businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala’s contract. The state intends to make Nationwide Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola a co-accused within the fraud and corruption case, State versus Vusimuzi Matlala and 15 others, the Pretoria Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom heard on Tuesday. Masemola has been…
Dr Vish Govender laments of struggling to draw structural engineers with solely 4 serving the complete province. Photograph: Equipped KwaZulu-Natal is struggling to draw structural engineers placing the province in a precarious place throughout devastating disasters. Complicating the grim image is that the coastal province through the years has been liable to floods leaving a…
One instance of the dangers of shutting off a water system is inflicting extra leaks. A speedy strain drop may cause water hammer, a shockwave that may be damaging. Picture: WaterCAN There was an growing quantity of commentary on the inevitability of “watershedding”, as if that is as simple to implement as loadshedding for electrical energy. Sizzling…
The water disaster has turn out to be a defining function of municipal service supply in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni, with the best impression felt in poor and marginalised communities. In October 2023, the Johannesburg Water Disaster Committee took a step that many thought would go nowhere: it wrote to the South African Human Rights…
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has introduced that his division will withhold Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) funding to eThekwini Metropolitan municipality following an alleged jobs for intercourse, kinfolk, political associates and money scandal that has led to funds being made to people who didn’t…
Ivan Meyer, the DA’s former federal chairperson Photograph: Equipped Seconds after Solly Msimanga was introduced as the brand new federal chairperson of the Democratic Alliance (DA), former federal chair Ivan Meyer stormed out of the plenary in anger. Meyer didn’t watch for the announcement of the remaining outcomes and had already left the plenary earlier…
Democratic Alliance chief, John Steenhuisen. Picture: Delwyn Verasamy Outgoing Democratic Alliance chief John Steenhuisen on Saturday delivered his ultimate handle as social gathering chief on the DA’s federal congress in Midrand, telling delegates he was stepping down whereas leaving the organisation “intact”. Talking on the Gallagher Conference Centre forward of the management vote, Steenhuisen described…
World actuality: Africa performs an more and more central function in international debates surrounding improvement finance, local weather governance, migration and worldwide peace and safety but it doesn’t have affect. Picture: APS At this 12 months’s international version of the African Public Sq. open session, we debated the pressing query of how Africa can successfully…