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…
Former International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor delivers the annual public lecture hosted by SAfm in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand on November 21, 2024. 1 minute Former International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor has called on government to take a tougher stance against corrupt public servants. Pandor delivered the annual public lecture hosted by…
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi 1 minute Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has denied that he is vilifying private medical aid schemes. He says the medical aid schemes are not playing an active role in the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Motsoaledi was answering a question from the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Igor Scheurkogel in the National…
An Eskom prepaid electricity meter box and card. 2 minutes Disgruntled residents of Orlando in Soweto have accused Eskom officials of not properly communicating with them on the looming deadline for the upgrade of prepaid electricity meter boxes. The deadline is Sunday and residents with meter boxes that have not been upgraded could find themselves in the dark. Elderly residents say they…
Expired food items, counterfeit prescription medication, body lotion and other prohibited goods are pictured at a warehouse in Bluff in Durban during a police raid on 20 November 2024. 2 minutes Consumers are urged to pay special attention to the food labelling, the production and best before dates as precautionary measure before buying and consuming…
