An Eskom prepaid electricity meter box and card. 4 minutes Eskom will continue to service non-paying prepaid customers and those who have tampered with their meters on Monday. The power utility has extended the deadline for zero buyers to upgrade their prepaid electricity meters. On Sunday, scores of people rushed to Eskom offices to try…
[FILE IMAGE]: A coffin during a funeral service. 1 minute Mourners at the funeral service of community activist, Professor Nomvula Mthethwa, have remembered her for steering them away from becoming juvenile delinquents. Sports administrator and neighbour, Archie Dyasi says that she, not only developed him intellectually but also, kept him and other youth off the…
MK Party leader Jacob Zuma. 1 minute The Jacob Zuma Foundation says that former ANC President Jacob Zuma will consult with his legal team over his expulsion from the ANC. On Friday, the ANC upheld Zuma’s expulsion after he appealed the decision from the party’s National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal. Zuma was expelled earlier this…
EFF Secretary-General Marshal Dlamini speaks during a party event. 3 minutes EFF Secretary-General Marshall Dlamini says they will use the national conference to come up with a programme of action that will help the party rebuild after losing support in the May 2024 election. “It’s not just EFF KZN that lost. It’s a EFF in…
Cricket ball and wickets. 1 minute Zimbabwe upset Pakistan in the opening clash of their three-match One Day International series, winning by 80 runs on the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern system at Queens Sports Club on Sunday. The home side, put into bat, were in trouble at 125-7 halfway through their innings before Pakistan-born Sikandar Raza (39) and…
A band, standing by Siyabonga Mnisi’s coffin, plays at his funeral in Soweto. 3 minutes Five-year-old, Siyabonga Mnisi, who died on Wednesday of a suspected food-borne illness has been laid to rest. Mourners gathered at his home in Diepkloof, Soweto to bid him farewell on Sunday. The Grade R learner from Dumezweni Primary School fell…
Cape fur seal basks on the rocks. 1 minute The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has raised concerns over the harassment of Cape fur seals. They say that incidents of brutality are on the rise ever since rabies was detected in the Cape fur seal population. The department says these include people allowing…
The late Breyten Breytenbach. 2 minutes Renowned South African poet, novelist, painter, and activist Breyten Breytenbach has died. Breytenbach passed on earlier today in Paris aged of 85. His family, in a statement released this afternoon, confirmed the news. According to the statement, the South African wordsmith passed on “with his wife Yolande by his…
People queue outside to upgrade their electricity metres 1 minute Eskom has urged customers whose metres have been bypassed or connected illegally to go to legal vendors and buy electricity before they come to Eskom offices. The power utility says this will help ease the burden of long queues and help Eskom speed up the…
Residents protest, demanding Harrismith to be removed from the Maluti-A-Phofung Municipality (June 2021) 2 minutes Thirty years into democracy, residents of Maluti A Phofung municipality in the Free State continue to be on the receiving end of poor services due to political instability. For over a decade, the municipality which incorporates Qwaqwa, Harrismith and Kestel,…
