HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY

Thu 30 October 2025:

Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today:

◼️ Public Works unveils plan to fix ‘half-built schools, ghost hospitals’ and blacklist failing contractors: Between 2016 and 2020, the Auditor-General found that the number of projects that missed deadlines grew sixfold, from 10% to 60%. Behind these figures lies a pattern of poor planning, weak project management and the now routine “cash flow constraints” that often leave construction sites frozen mid-build.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-10-29-public-works-launches-action-plan-to-end-era-of-construction-failures/#:~:text=The%20Department%20of%20Public%20Works,could%20soon%20face%20a%20reckoning.

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◼️ Matlala funded Mchunu’s presidential campaigns: Witness C, a Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) member, told the Madlanga Commission that Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala funded the presidential campaign of suspended Police Minister, Senzo Mchunu, by paying flight tickets and accommodation for the ANC January 8 event.
https://iol.co.za/news/politics/2025-10-30-witness-c-returns-to-madlanga-commission-to-complete-testimony-on-saps-kickback-scandal/
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◼️ Court ruling brings big changes for gambling: South Africa does not permit online interactive gambling; however, the betting sector is allowed to offer fixed-odds betting through online platforms. Betting companies managed to circumvent the former by turning interactive gambling games like roulette into a livestreamed “sport” and offering fixed-odd betting.
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/841354/court-ruling-brings-big-changes-for-gambling-in-south-africa/

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◼️ What Nersa doesn’t want you to know: Customers have no right to see what it costs their municipalities to supply them with electricity, energy regulator Nersa argued on 28 October in the Pretoria High Court before Judge Etienne Labuschagne.
https://www.citizen.co.za/business/what-nersa-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

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◼️ The questions South Africans are asking about retirement: South Africans are worried – and for good reason. Recent national studies show a clear trend: most South Africans fear they won’t retire comfortably, don’t know how much they’ll need, and are anxious about rising medical costs and the new two-pot withdrawal system.
https://www.moneyweb.co.za/financial-advisor-views/the-questions-south-africans-are-asking-about-retirement-and-what-the-evidence-says/

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