THE FLOODGATES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT DYSFUNCTION HAVE OPENED Makhanda in the Eastern Cape, formerly known as Grahamstown, has been without water for weeks. Residents’ hopes for relief lie not with municipal workers, or nationally or provincially deployed expertise, but with the fleet-footed… More Source Posted…
CALL FOR COMMENT: CITY OF CAPE TOWN TARIFF INCREASES — click the link to have your say. The City of Cape Town has invited public comment on the draft 2021/22 IDP, Medium Term Budget, and Tariff increases. Property Rates These will increase by 4.5% across…
ASTRAL SECURES HIGH COURT ORDER AGAINST GOVERNMENT IN SERVICE DELIVERY BATTLE JSE-listed poultry giant Astral Foods has taken government, including National Treasury, to court and won a landmark order to secure better service delivery at municipal level in the Standerton area, where it has one…
THE CHECKLIST SOUTH AFRICANS SHOULD SEE AHEAD OF THE NEW PRIVACY RULES IN JULY (POPI) The operative provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) came into effect on 1 July 2020, with a grace period of a year in which companies must ensure…
SOUTH AFRICA’S ROAD ACCIDENT FUND IS FACING IMPLOSION – AND IT COULD HIT YOUR POCKET The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has secured an extraordinary court order preventing successful claimants and their attorneys from laying claim to money in its bank account and other assets in…
PLAN TO INTRODUCE NEW BANK CARDS IN SOUTH AFRICA COULD LEAD TO TROUBLE The Free Market Foundation (FMF) has warned against the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB’s) proposal to introduce domestic debit cards. In a consultation paper published on 2 March, the central bank said…
CONCERNS OVER PRICE OF ELECTRICITY FROM POWERSHIPS While Eskom is currently slated to pay low tariffs for electricity from Karpowership’s three vessels, this could fluctuate wildly over the course of the next 20 years – potentially resulting in a massive rise in the cost of…
CALL FOR COMMENT: ELECTRICITY PRICE SHOCK FOR JOBURG RESIDENTS POSSIBLE — have your say at the link. Johannesburg residents could soon be paying R200 more for electricity each month, even before they start using it. This is if a proposed capacity charge for prepaid electricity…
UNCAPPED MOBILE DATA FOR R278 PER MONTH – IF YOU WORK FOR GOVERNMENT South Africa’s four major mobile network operators are providing uncapped data at very competitive prices to government employees as part of a new transversal mobile communications services contract. Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and…
CALL FOR COMMENT; PROPOSAL TO LAUNCH STATE-OWNED CLOUD COMPUTING MEGA-NETWORK — click the link to have your say. Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, has published a proposed National Data and Cloud Policy, setting out government’s plan to tackle the issue of… More…
