Innholdsfortegnelse for 2025-10-24 i Daily News

The eThekwini Municipality has revamped its approach to water supply issues due to illegal activities involving ward-based plumbers. The municipality has introduced complaints inspectors to verify faults before deploying non-revenue water plumbers to high-leakage areas. This change aims to avoid wasteful expenditure and ensure that plumbers are productive. Acting Executive Director for Technical Services, Ednick Msweli highlighted that plumbers are now assigned to specific reservoir zones with high water loss. The municipality has also started insourcing plumbers, with four artisans already on duty and 44 more being recruited. The number of water leaks and pipe bursts has dropped significantly, from over 9 000 in June to below 980. Councillor Mdu Nkosi confirmed the water supply is stable in most areas, but challenges remained. The City is working on recommissioning the…

The suspicion that the bullying incident at Milnerton High School forms part of a larger pattern of a particular problem in high schools is not unreasonable. As would be the feeling that racial discrimination and learner-on-learner violence remains a stubborn problem at a particular group of schools, more than others. Bluntly put, people generally suspect schools located in more affluent and white neighbourhoods as the most probable sites of racial prejudice and bullying cultures. Such binary thinking views less affluent schools in black neighbourhoods as hotbeds for protests for better and more teachers and teaching. As a simple exercise to get a handle on the problem, a map of the province and the metropole that shows where schools with reported incidents are located, tells a story. Simply by tracking media…

Kaizer Chiefs’ eight-game winless run from open play is no fluke. It’s the result of hesitation, muddled thinking, and indecision at the very top of South Africa’s most decorated football club. When a team of Chiefs’ magnitude finds itself fourth on the Betway Premiership table, yet separated by just three points from 10th-placed Marumo Gallants, the issue is clearly structural, not situational. Chiefs’ current crisis is not born on the pitch — it’s cultivated in the boardroom. The club’s decision to sack head coach Nasreddine Nabi after his first league defeat of the season is the latest example of poor executive judgment. If Chiefs truly doubted Nabi’s long-term suitability, then why give him a full pre-season to rebuild, recruit and redefine the team’s style? Why wait until the campaign had…

Advocate Marumo Moerane SC has been appointed to chair the 11-member commission that will probe the financial and governance affairs of the embattled Ingonyama Trust Board. There has been uncertainty in the operations of the board since it was sacked by King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, acting as the sole trustee, in December last year. After dissolving the board, the king appointed Van Rensburg Kruger Rakwena Attorneys to conduct a forensic audit into the financial affairs of the Ingonyama Trust and its board. However, it is not clear what happened to that investigation because, to date, no findings have been publicised. On Thursday, Parliament portfolio committee chairperson under the Land Reform Department, Mangaqa Mncwango, said his committee, together with the Land Reform Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso, has appointed a commission that will be…

This has been a troubling week in the Western Cape. Stories of gender-based violence, gang shootings and the brutal assault on a pupil at Milnerton High School have left many asking what kind of society are we becoming. The attack on a Grade 10 learner by a group of boys armed with sticks and a belt shocked the country. The video that surfaced was difficult to watch and even harder to accept. Whether the motive was revenge or bravado does not matter, it was violent and cruel. Plainly put, it was an assault. Bullying has been an unspoken crisis in our schools for far too long. It hides behind excuses – and silence. Every time we look away, another child is hurt. Too many teachers say they feel powerless…

King Charles III met yesterday with Pope Leo XIV during a state visit to the Vatican, where he will make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with a pontiff. The 76-year-old monarch, who holds the title of supreme governor of the mother church of Anglicanism, flew to Rome this week with his wife, Queen Camilla, for what Buckingham Palace described as a “historic” trip. The royals were greeted at the Apostolic Palace testerday by a ceremonial guard of honour by the Swiss Guard, the pope’s colourful private bodyguards, before a private meeting with Leo in the papal library. It was Charles’s first meeting with Pope Leo, who took over as head of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics in May following the death of…

The Springboks will have plenty of options at their disposal to replace Jan-Hendrik Wessels after the utility front-rower received a lengthy suspension yesterday. With confirmation of his nine-week ban for grabbing a Connacht player in the genital area during the Bulls’ 28-27 win in Galway confirmed, head coach Rassie Erasmus should have several players ready to step into the Bok touring squad. The Bulls are expected to appeal the sanction laid down by the United Rugby Championship (URC). Unlike the suspension of Sharks winger Makazole Mapimpi — who was on standby for the national side — Wessels’ sanction will likely force Erasmus to select another hooker. The Boks are relatively well covered at loosehead with the return to fitness of Gerhard Steenekamp, while Thomas du Toit is able to scrum…

Banyana Banyana will carry a narrow advantage into the second leg of their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) qualifier after playing to a 1-1 draw against the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday evening. Kgalebane Mohlakoana opened the scoring for South Africa, but her strike was cancelled out by DRC’s Ruth Monique before the halftime break. The second leg promises to be a decisive encounter, with the winner on aggregate set to advance to the Wafcon finals in Morocco next year. The return fixture is scheduled for Tuesday evening at the FNB Stadium. South Africa will head into the match with a slim edge, as Mohlakoana’s crucial away goal gives them a slight advantage ahead of the second leg which will also see them welcome back some of the…

South Africa is under siege – not by guns or tanks, but by an invisible, fast-moving enemy. Cyberattacks are striking at the heart of our economy, government, and national security. As we mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October, this threat demands urgent attention. In recent years, ransomware crippled Transnet’s ports, the Department of Justice was locked out of its systems, and Postbank’s breach exposed millions of social-grant beneficiaries. These were not isolated incidents; they were warnings of our growing vulnerability in the digital age. A growing, borderless threat As South Africa’s digital footprint grows, so does its risk. Our networks are among Africa’s most advanced, making them attractive targets for hackers and state-sponsored groups. The result is a perfect storm: a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals, outdated laws, and weak…

Abdeslam Ouaddou is set to take charge of one of his most defining games of the season, and he hopes his troops will be equal to the task — and score goals. Pirates have been the most active team in the top flight since the start of the season. As such, they’ve already appeased the Ghosts by winning the first trophy of the campaign — the MTN8 — which was the club’s record-extending fourth in all competitions. But for all their early success, Pirates have bigger fish to fry: the Betway Premiership and the CAF Champions League. They’ve impressed in the league so far, winning their last six games, including a 1–0 victory over Polokwane City at home on Wednesday night. They are caught between a rock and a hard…