A fire rages in the Witzenberg area in this image captured on 25 February 2025. 2 minutes SANParks says they will deploy aerial resources to the Cape Town City Bowl and Red Hill as firefighters battle escalating wildfires in the Table Mountain National Park. SANParks says gusting winds overnight led to the spread of the…
Mahika Mahikeng Festival 2 minutes The North West Department of Economic Development has stated that the North West Parks and Tourism was required to contribute R7 million to last year’s Mahika Mahikeng Cultural Festival due to a contractual obligation. This comes after MEC Bitsa Lenkopane addressed the media following allegations by two former acting CEOs,…
1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa opens the first meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor’s under the South Africa’s Presidency at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Live stream below:
Damage after a flood. 1 minute Heavy overnight rainfall has led to widespread flooding across the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. The Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance says the most affected areas include the N2 at Murchison, the Umbango Bridge, the Nkongweni Bridge at Margate, and Isipingo on the N2 south of Durban. Teams have been deployed…
African National Congress Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula 2 minutes The African National Congress (ANC) has appointed a 67-member task team in KwaZulu-Natal. Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has unveiled the reconfigured KwaZulu-Natal leadership that will be headed by party veteran, Jeff Radebe, who is the Provincial Convener. Mbalula says they remain determined to rebuild the organisation, stressing…
From left to right – A delegation from AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement including Jaco Kleynhans, Flip Buys, Dirk Hermann, Kallie Kriel pictured at the White House in Washington in the US on 25 February 2025. 2 minutes A delegation from AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement has met with representatives of United States President Donald…
Seven Chinese nationals convicted of kindnapping and forced labour to be sentenced in March 2025. 1 minute Seven Chinese nationals have been found guilty of 158 out of 160 charges related to kidnapping and forced labour involving 91 Malawian nationals. The convicts appeared before the Johannesburg High court yesterday. In 2019, the Hawks raided a…
[File image] 2 minutes Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says Eskom technical teams are hard at work to return lost units to the grid. He says he is optimistic that the latest round of load shedding will soon be a thing of the past. The country is currently experiencing Stage 2 of load shedding attributed to…
Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Mimmy Gondwe 2 minutes The Department of Higher Education and Training says it is in talks with the South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Student Association to meet some of their demands. The association represents the interests of TVET students nationwide. It cites the withholding…
[File Image] An armyworm, which usually comes out at night, is seen on sugar cane crop around dusk at a village of Menghai county in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. 3 minutes An outbreak of the African armyworm has ravaged crops in some parts of the Limpopo province. Farmers in the Capricorn, Waterberg and Sekhukhune Districts…
