The Democratic Alliance on Tuesday welcomed Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele’s announcement that the department would look at ring-fencing funds to tackle the road infrastructure backlog. This was a measure the DA had repeatedly called for in the past — in the form of a dedicated road maintenance fund with funding sourced from the fiscus and ...
The demands of Orange Farm residents are reasonable, ANC Chief Whip Mathole Motshekga said on Tuesday after meeting the community’s leaders. “Their demands are reasonable as you can see that projects are unfinished here and there’s sewerage in the streets. The ball is now in our court as government to address the issue,” he said. ...
ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says he has lived up to his promise by advising the ANC’s front company to divest its shares in a company benefitting from the electricity price hike. ANC front company Chancellor House owns 25percent of the shares of Hitachi Africa, which has a R38billion contract to install boilers in two new ...
Democratic Alliance parliamentary leader Athol Trollip on Monday urged President Jacob Zuma to use his upcoming official visit to the United Kingdom to take a decisive stand on Zimbabwe. Zuma is scheduled to leave for the UK on Monday, and Zimbabwe is expected to be high on the agenda. Trollip said Zuma needed to focus ...
There will be an extra 120 000 flights over the World Cup period, the Airports Company said yesterday. At a briefing on the airports’ preparedness for the tournament, Acsa group manager of operations Andre Vermeulen said there had been an increase in the number of requests for more slots in June and July from commercial ...
