Is this the reason behind the #TaxiStrike?: Cape Town – Despite a deadline set for early August for the release of the taxi violence report, Transport and Public Works MEC Donald Grant said he wasn’t going to rush its completion. Grant said he had not yet seen the report. At least nine taxi associations operating in Delft gave evidence on events that occurred on May 11 and 21, when two Delft taxi drivers were killed,…
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#GautrainStrike enters second week: Johannesburg – The strike by Gautrain workers entered the second week on Monday with train services still being disrupted after the United National Transport Union…
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WATCH: Buses torched during Cape Town #TaxiStrike: Cape Town – At least two Golden Arrow buses were torched before sunrise on Monday morning, as hundreds of commuters battled to get to work. Taxi services were not operational after some associations went on strike on…
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2 Golden Arrow buses torched in Khayelitsha: It’s unclear if the incidents stem from the taxi drivers strike. ……
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DA criticises ANC’s timing on referring Qedani Mahlangu to integrity committee: Mahlangu was called to testify at the Esidimeni arbitration hearings which investigated the unnecessary deaths of at least 144 psychiatric patients. ……
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WC govt dangles reward to find train arson attack suspects: The provincial Community Safety Department is offering a R100,000 reward for any information that could help investigators. ……
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ANC in CT concerned De Lille’s resignation will affect black business: A deal was struck between De Lille and the Democratic Alliance in exchange to drop the disciplinary charges against her. ……
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R17m water and electricity bill the last straw for Brixton resident: Johannesburg – A Brixton resident is reeling after receiving a R17million bill from the City of Joburg for water and electricity. Nico Niemand, who owns two semi-detached houses in the suburb, said he had been battling with an inflated bill for the past three years, but was shocked to receive a bill of over R17m in June, which shows an actual reading for the period between October 3, 2107 and May 29 this year. Niemand claims that over the past three years he has lost R900 000 in income. He has not been able to rent out the houses because of the constant placing of…
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Land invasions, political future on ‘vindicated’ De Lille’s to-do list: Cape Town – Mayor Patricia de Lille wants to use the three remaining months of her stay in the council to decide on her political future and also tackle land invasions across the city. Her future in the DA remained unclear following a battle that lasted several months. Briefing the media yesterday, DA leader Mmusi Maimane announced De Lille’s resignation from the mayoral post. De Lille agreed to step down as a mayor on October 31, and the DA would not pursue disciplinary charges against her. This came as a disciplinary hearing panel recommended that De Lille’s Knysna counterpart Mark Willemse and…
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SARS probe ‘missing’ diesel mystery in Durban Harbour: Daily News – The SA Revenue Service (Sars) is investigating how 16 containers, with flexi-bags full of diesel, went missing at a local container-holding depot. The diesel was shipped from India in September 2017. An employee at Sars in the Durban customs centre said: “There’s a lot of work that we are dealing with to get closure on this matter.” On Thursday, Sars confirmed the containers were indeed “missing”, and said that 10 more containers belonging to a different importer had been “released” the same way, without permission from the revenue service in September 2017. The containers were flagged for detention after some discrepancies…
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