6 September 2018

CAPE TOWN – After his controversial walk-off from a live SuperSport broadcast, former Springbok wing Ashwin Willemse won’t be back on air.
SuperSport confirmed on Thursday that Willemse’s contract had expired, and that “he will not be back on air”.
Willemse, who will turn 37 on Saturday, walked out of the SuperSport studios on May 19 after being part of a panel alongside Naas Botha and Nick Mallett, with Motshidisi Mohono as the presenter.

7 September 2018

MPs from across the political spectrum, black and white, condemned the alt-right lobby group AfriForum after its submission to the Joint Constitutional Review Committee on Thursday afternoon, drawing comparisons to the neo-fascist Black First Land First (BLF) movement who made a presentation to the committee a day before…
AfriForum deputy CEO Ernst Roets said expropriation without compensation, or compensation below market price, showed disrespect to property rights, a basic human right.

7 September 2018

JOHANNESBURG - Following violent protests over the poor quality quality of drinking water in Hammanskraal, the City of Tshwane on Friday said the water supply has improved and it has withdrawn water tankers from the area.
"The quality of drinking water in Hammanskraal and surrounding areas has improved and no longer has an odour and a brown colour, following reports of suspected cholera contamination in the area around June this year. The city had resorted to supplying water through tankers even though the reports were dismissed after tests proved that there was no trace of cholera in the water," the city said in a statement.

8 September 2018

DURBAN - The DA has reported an eThekwini Municipality senior official to the Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for referring to a senior colleague as the C-word in a leaked recorded phone call.
The senior eThekwini official, who heads a key unit in the city and whose name has been withheld, allegedly referred to his Indian colleague Krish Kumar, the city’s deputy city manager with the derogatory racial term “c*****” numerous times.

13 September 2018

There are simply not enough inspectors to check on the food being sold by spaza shops in parts of Gauteng.
That was the message conveyed to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) on Wednesday as it held a two-day inquiry into claims that foreign national shop owners were selling counterfeit or expired food.
A panel of different stakeholders will seek to unpack what prompted recent attacks on several shop owners.
Jerry Chaka from the city of Ekurhuleni said samples of questionable food‚ confiscated during an inspection in the Tembisa area a week ago‚ had been sent to the National Health Laboratory Services.

13 september 2018

JOHANNESBURG - Foreign spaza shops owners say there’s a smear campaign against them.
They’re denying allegations that they’re selling fake and expired goods.

13 September 2018

JOHANNESBURG – The City of Ekurhuleni says that as recently as last week, it seized goods, including soft drinks and cooking oil, which is suspected to be counterfeit.
Officials were speaking at the South African Human Rights Commission hearings in Johannesburg, which are continuing on Thursday looking into allegations that foreign-owned shops are selling expired goods.

14 September 2018

Representatives from the Somali board told the Human Rights Commission on Wednesday that a text on the intention to loot stores had been circulating three months before last month’s unrest.

15 September 2018

The former ANC Western Cape chairperson had accused the SA Jewish Board of Deputies of undermining transformation in the CBD and on the Cape Flats.

15 September 2018

TIGER Brand’s Nishaan Purshad said no citizen is allowed to remove expired foods illegally.
The head of internal audit was giving testimony yesterday at the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on the sale of expired and counterfeit goods in Braamfontein, Joburg.