The government has conceded that inadequate and unreliable infrastructure in many rural areas and some townships has worsened the impact of flooding across parts of the country. Minister in the Presidency for Monitoring and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa, made the admission while responding to Newsnote during a media briefing in Pretoria on Friday. “Yes, we must acknowledge that infrastructure challenges are a contributing factor to the devastating nature of the floods currently being experienced in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga,” Ramokgopa said.…

North West police have issued a warning to parents, guardians and community members to closely monitor children around dams, rivers, swimming pools, lakes and bridges. The caution follows a tragic incident in which two teenage girls drowned in a river at Moshava village near Zeerust. According to police, officers were alerted to the drowning on Wednesday afternoon. Upon arrival at the scene, they were informed that three girls and two boys had gone swimming in the river. After entering the…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended his pro-capital policy direction, arguing that his approach does not amount to neoliberalism but is instead a necessary strategy to enable State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to fulfil their developmental mandate. “It is often said that what we are doing is neoliberalism. That is not true. What we are doing is finding private capital to finance our developmental agenda,” the President said. Ramaphosa pointed to the construction of several major national roads as examples of successful partnerships…