Day: March 28, 2025
News24 | 9 LIVES | Tender tycoon Cat Matlala faces liquidation as R360m police contract hits the skids
Tender tycoon Vusimusi Cat Matlala, who scored a R360 million police health services deal, cannot deliver on the tender and faces liquidation while struggling to pay his staff and suppliers.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Diphtheria: Western Cape hardest hit as 9 new cases increase total to 40
The number of diphtheria cases identified in South Africa has increased to 40 after nine new cases were recorded between 9 and 23 March, according to the latest report from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Mashatile concedes land restitution has been slow, but says Expropriation Act will speed it up
While agreeing that land restitution has taken too long, Deputy President Paul Mashatile held up the controversial Expropriation Act as a way to speed up land reform.
Continue ReadingNews24 | End of an era for Capitec as ‘instrumental’ CEO to retire
SA's biggest digital banker, Capitec, said on Friday founding member and CEO Gerrie Fourie is set to retire with effect from 18 July.
Continue ReadingNews24 | R100bn BEE Transformation Fund policy document reveals deep flaws in govt’s plan
Contributions to the R100-billion fund proposed by Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau will not be obligatory and there will be little incentive for businesses to join it.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘We must end our complicity in the carnage’: Bernie Sanders pushes to block US arms sales to Israel
US Senator Bernie Sanders said he would force votes next week on resolutions that would block $8.8 billion in arms sales to Israel, citing the human rights crisis faced by Palestinians in Gaza.
Continue ReadingNews24 | F1 return to South Africa gathers speed as organisers aim for Grand Prix in 2027
The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture confirmed on Thursday that its F1 bid steering committee had received three bids to host a possible future Formula One race in South Africa.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Buffalo City metro plagued by R10bn irregular expenditure, decaying infrastructure, errant officials
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Public Accounts is conducting oversight of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Depriving occupiers’ right to graze cattle on farmers’ land is ‘form of eviction’, ConCourt hears
Representing a family of farm dwellers who were ordered to remove their nine cattle from the farm they had grown up on, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has argued that depriving farm occupiers of the right to graze their livestock was "a form of eviction".
Continue ReadingNews24 | Businessman’s son’s rescue linked to plot to silence dad ahead of kidnapping syndicate’s trial
The discovery of a VW Amarok in the underground parking of Michelangelo Towers in Sandton led police to the kidnapped son of a Lenasia businessman who was apparently kidnapped to prevent his father from testifying against an alleged kidnapping syndicate.
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