Lise Beyers
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National Treasury withheld R3.6 billion from Johannesburg for financial mismanagement, affecting service delivery and prompting mayoral assurances amidst skepticism.
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If there’s one thing America does well, it’s spectacle. And when the world’s biggest football tournament comes to US soil this summer, the hosts are pulling out all the stops with a star-studded half-time show that would make the Super Bowl blush.
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State-owned freight company Transnet has secured approval from the National Treasury to blacklist seven companies found guilty of unethical and unlawful conduct following forensic investigations.
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SANDU is taking legal action over poor quarantine conditions for returning SANDF soldiers from the DRC, citing unsafe and inadequate facilities.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised to step in and help fix the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF), as millions of South African workers wait months — and sometimes years — for money they are owed.
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The Institute of Race Relations Legal is aiding 69 South African municipalities with funding issues by recommending cost-saving procurement changes.
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The Constitutional Court has unanimously ruled that asylum seekers cannot be deported before their claims are properly assessed, declaring key sections of the Refugees Act unconstitutional.
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National Treasury defends withholding R13.5 billion from 69 municipalities to ensure creditor payments, aiming to change financial behavior without service delivery impact.
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South African police and military forces arrested 217 people, most of them undocumented foreign nationals, during a major operation targeting illegal miners.
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Tensions rise again over the Strait of Hormuz.
