A prepaid meter. 1 minute City Power says it is now left with just over 600 customers who still need have their meters upgraded. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says it is promising that they might reach the Sunday deadline. He says by extending working hours and suspending penalty fees, technicians were able to resolve…
Anglican Archbishop, Thabo Makgoba. 1 minute The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has appointed a three-person panel to review how the Anglican Church in South Africa handles reports of abuse. The review panel will include Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett and retired Judge, Ian Farlam. The trio will in turn make findings and…
Environmental activists protest during the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan 2 minutes The COP29 climate summit presidency released a draft finance deal on Friday that would have developed nations take the lead in providing $250 billion per year by 2035 to help poorer nations – a proposal that drew criticism from…
Uniterrupted Power Supply (UPS) lithium batteries backup system caught fire at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital (23 November 2024) 1 minute Some patients and staff at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria have been evacuated following a fire at the hospital in the early hours of this morning. No injuries have been reported following…
NSRI members during a rescue 1 minute The bodies of a teenager and a man—believed to have drowned in separate incidents—have been retrieved from different areas along the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. The male teenager disappeared at Pennington Beach on Wednesday. In the second incident, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) in Port Edward was on…
Stormy Weather sign post. 1 minute The Disaster Management Team in the Msunduzi Municipality in Pietermaritzburg says it’s still assessing the extent of the damage that heavy rains and a storm caused in the area on Thursday night. Scores of residents were displaced after their homes were flooded. The municipality has confirmed that over seven…
President Cyril Ramaphosa at the handover ceremony at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Federative Republic of Brazil. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 also presents opportunities for small businesses and co-operatives. He says the rate of entrepreneurship in the country remains low by continental standards. I…
Second phase of government’s operation to retrieve illegal miners from underground in Stilfontein. 2 minutes The South African Council of Churches (SACC) General-Secretary, the Reverend Mzwandile Molo, is today expected to lead a visit to a mine in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the North West where illegal miners are still underground. Efforts to bring them…
Jannik Sinner wins the ATP Finals against Taylor Fritz, Turin, November 17, 2024. 2 minutes Jannik Sinner enjoyed an unforgettable season marked by his first two Grand Slam titles and ending the year as world number one but the Italian heads into 2025 with the cloud of a potential doping ban still hanging over his…
Compliance inspection conducted as part of Operation Shanela, at a spaza shop in Kimberley, Northern Cape. Nov 2024 2 minutes The African Diaspora Forum (ADF), which represents the interests of foreign nationals in the country, says that its members have met with hostility from community members while trying to register their township spaza shops, in…
