Customers at an Eskom office. 1 minute Eskom says customers don’t need to come to their offices, but can recode their prepaid meters themselves. This as hundreds of customers flock to Eskom offices in a last minute rush to get their meters recoded ahead of the Sunday deadline. Eskom has also refuted claims that it…
An aerial view of the Stilfontein mine. 2 minutes Oversight bodies want government to account for what is happening in Stilfontein in the North West. Over 1 000 illegal miners were arrested in the past two weeks, while more than a 1 000 are said to be underground. This has exposed a challenge of illegal…
Lifeboat at sea 1 minute Two people have drowned in separate incidents in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal today. Lifesaving South Africa’s Dhaya Sewduth says in the first incident earlier today, it is believed that one person drowned at a beach in Umgababa on the province’s south coast. In the second incident, it is believed that a nine-year-old…
A prepaid electricity meter box. 3 minutes With less than two days left for the deadline for prepaid electricity users to recode their meter numbers, some residents in the rural town of Ngqeleni in Eastern Cape are calling for power utility Eskom to extend the deadline. The villagers say they were given short notice, while…
Traffic official flags down a vehicle 2 minutes Traffic authorities in the Western Cape have issued a stern warning to drunk drivers and speedsters, ahead of the festive season. Intensified traffic operations will form part of the Provincial Mobility Department’s Festive Season Road Safety Campaign. The campaign was launched at Moorreesburg on the West Coast,…
A technician with test tubes in a lab 2 minutes Police in KwaZulu-Natal have been accused of not collecting rape kits from the provincial health department. These are among the concerns that have been raised by the Commission for Gender Equality in Durban. The Commission has this week heard from different stakeholders on their responses…
FILE | Flowers at the door of the tavern 1 minute The Enyobeni inquest has been postponed to the 31st of March next year. Eastern Cape Liquor Board inspector Zuko Lizani was the last witness to take the stand. He told the court sitting in Mdantsane that the board does not have enough inspectors on…
A man with a mask holding a whistleblower board. 2 minutes Serious legislative reform is needed to improve the protection of whistleblowers in South Africa. That’s according to experts during a discussion at the anti-fraud and corruption dialogue in Pretoria. Whistleblowers remain vulnerable after exposing corruption despite existing legislation aimed at protecting them. The murder…
Eskom power lines. 2 minutes Political parties in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) in Parliament have expressed mixed reactions to the proposed Eskom tariff hikes. The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) gave a go ahead for the power utility to hike the electricity by 36.1% retrospectively. The NCOP held a debate on…
Africa remains high on the global agenda in 2024, with the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing in September this year demonstrating the new aspirations of the leading geopolitical players. The Forum addressed a host of issues including governance, industrialization, agricultural modernization, global security and the development of cooperation. Thirty new infrastructure development projects…
