South Africans need to buckle up for some price increases. April will be bringing many increases, first the petrol will be increasing, the interest rate will remain the same and on Tuesday Eskom increased their tariffs by 12%.
Spokesperson of the trade union Uasa Abigail Moyo says that workers are already struggling and rising prices remain a burden as the ripple effect is felt in the prices of basic needs and services.
Neil Roets, the CEO of Debt Rescue says that it is unacceptable that two of the most vital basic necessities are slowly but surely being outpriced beyond the reach of the average citizen.
Two years ago the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness confirmed the possibility of relocating the Elsies River Day Hospital. The provincially owned and managed facility is located on the corner of 29th Avenue and Halt Road. They have a 24-hour emergency trauma unit and midwife obstetrics unit, as well as a general primary health-care facilities.
Department spokesperson Shimoney Regter says that they have identified the need for a larger facility, along with the population growth, to expand services and capacity so they can also provide dedicated child health and TB care to everyone who needs it.
Ward councillor Christopher Jordaan said that it is high time that Elsies River be afforded a facility in the area where there is enough parking, safety and a dedicated pharmacy.
The Health and Wellness MEC Nomafrench Mbombo visited the Mitchells Plain Transitional Care Facility on Tuesday. On Highland Drive the 148-bed facility is run by a nonprofit organisation Aquarius. Mbombo said that the department had invested about R43 million in the facility.
The facility will be a place of recuperation and will be used as a step up and step down from and to the main hospital. The MEC adds that in this facility, it is mostly nursing care, physio and occupational (therapy), it is a multidisciplinary team but there is no high-level specialist intervention required.
CEO of Western Cape Rehabilitation Centre and Advanced Transitional Care Services at Brackengate Intermediate Care Facility Fatima Peters says that the facility is a sister facility to Brackengate. Patients stay from six to eight weeks.
The former Speaker of Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula hands herself in at Lyttelton police station in Tshwane. She is being investigated in a multi-million-rand corruption investigation.
Mapisa-Nqakula resigned from her National Assembly Speaker position on Wednesday evening expressing to the public that she wanted to focus on the ongoing investigation against her.
According to prosecutors, Mapisa-Nqakula allegedly received R2.3 million in bribes and gratifications from a fraud-accused businesswoman who reportedly received R210 million in defence contracts.
- Cape Town to Stellenbosch (Western Cape)
- Merebank to Chatsglen (KZN)
- Johannesburg to Florida (Gauteng)
Prasa to address operational issues that led to suspension of some Shosholoza Meyl trips
- Johannesburg to Nancefield (Gauteng)
- Germiston to Elsburg (Gauteng)
Services between Cape Town and Stellenbosch will be extended to Muldersvlei as soon as possible.
The Agency says that significant progress is being made on the Central Line, with ongoing efforts to rehabilitate rail infrastructure from Phillippi to Nolungile and onwards to Chris Hani in the Western Cape.
Temporary relocation of 891 households from the Philippi station area has helped things in terms of their recovery work. Prasa says that this work builds on the recovery of the Cape Town to Nyanga services. The growing demand for train services has made repairing vandalised signalling equipment a major priority.
