The DA’s premier candidate for Gauteng has hinted at its governance plans, which include fewer government departments and a referendum on e-tolls.
A total of 45 700 public transport operators have been exempted from paying e-tolls in Gauteng so far, says the transport department.
The implementation of e-tolls on Gauteng’s highways has been met with mixed reaction, including further promises of court action.
With an 11th-hour attempt to stop e-tolling by the FF Plus also dismissed, Gauteng motorists will to have to face paying for the use of highways.
The electronic tolling system on Gauteng’s highways is expected to go live at midnight on Monday.
Gauteng has sought to assure motorists it will maintain roads that can serve as an alternative to tolled routes.
Transport Minister Dipuo Peters’s announcement that e-tolling of Gauteng’s highways will begin soon has been met with anger and sadness.
CPSI honours innovation in service delivery.
Gauteng is set to get a new metro with the merger of Emfuleni and Midvaal local municipalities and Sedibeng district municipality.
Listening to the DA’s Mmusi Maimane you’d be forgiven for forgetting the party has little chance of wresting Gauteng from the ANC.
The Gauteng health department has until July 13 to pay an interim negligence claim to an amputee or the sheriff of the court will seize its assets.
The turn-around strategy implemented by the Gauteng health department is helping to solve poor financial management, said MEC Ahm Papo.
Cosatu’s demonstration blocks Gauteng’s highways, Egyptians take to the streets again and the royal family make a big announcement.
It was gridlock on Gauteng’s highways as Cosatu led a drive-slow in protest of the controversial e-tolling system.
The Gauteng provincial treasury has been re-established as a separate and autonomous body outside of the province’s finance department.
Fraudulent activities come under the spotlight at conference
Tough task ahead for the head of Gauteng’s treasury.
South Africa is blessed with strong capital markets, a competitive private sector, proud democracy and a robust economic outlook.
South Africans are flocking to urban areas in search of a better life and are putting strain on scarce resources, writes Lynley Donnelly.
Until politics takes a back seat, people will continue to die in the province’s hospitals.
Planning to revamp a province-wide public transport system is not to be taken lightly, particularly in an economic hub like Gauteng.
Anyone that has used the Gautrain can attest to the pleasure and ease of using a properly-designed public transport system.
Eve Fairbanks tells a story of a takeaway shop, owned by an Egyptian, that has become the most Mzansi spot in Melville.
Gauteng’s second-best municipality seems to have a grip on things, but service delivery still falls short, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
It has to be a South African record, the gap between the revelations of alleged misdemeanours on the part of Humphrey Mmemezi and his resignation.
It is a beacon of hope, yet the state’s cystic fibrosis unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital might be closed.
The problem with the budget allocated for social development services is nowhere near adequate to meet the needs in the sector, writes Jackie Loffell.
This is a shortened version of the Gauteng Department of Social Development’s budget speech delivered on May 29 2012 by MEC Nandi Mayathola-Khoza.
Social development in SA is beset with numerous challenges as government tries to balance addressing short-term priorities with development needs.
Big plans are underway to improve compliance with supply-chain management processes.
Vibrant, equitable and sustainable communities contributing towards food security, protected and enhanced environmental assets and natural resources.
While Gauteng isn’t known as an agricultural force, farming plays a major role in the province’s economy.