President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his SONA 2025 speech. 2 minutes ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has poured cold water on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA). Mashaba says Ramaphosa is out of touch with the realities faced by millions of South Africans. Ramaphosa delivered his State of the Nation Address on Thursday evening…
3 minutes The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) maintains their stance on President Cyril Ramaphosa, stating he continues to be a president “in the interest of capital.” According to the EFF’s National Spokesperson, Sinawo Tambo, speaking to the SABC outside Cape Town City Hall, Ramaphosa has done nothing to alter the party’s view of him. Tambo’s…
DA MP Willie Aucamp 3 minutes US President Donald Trump was well within his rights when he made much-talked-about utterances about the recently signed Land Expropriation Act by President Cyril Ramaphosa. That is according to Democratic Alliance’s Member of Parliament Willie Aucamp. In a social media post by Trump, the US President accused South Africa…
Copper cabling 1 minute A 28-year-old man is expected to appear in the Douglas Magistrate’s Court in Northern Cape on Friday, for having stolen copper and causing damage to infrastructure, estimated at approximately R300 000. The suspect was arrested after he was found with a black plastic bag filled with copper. Provincial Police Spokesperson, Merapelo…
ArcelorMittal plant is seen in Vanderbijlpark, an industrial city south of Johannesburg, South Africa. 2 minutes Arcelor Mittal South Africa has delayed the closure of its long-steel plant operations by a month pending talks with the government to try to save the business, it said on Thursday. The company had planned to start winding down…
A drop of water coming from a tap. 2 minutes Some residents at Seshego in Polokwane, Limpopo are appealing to President Cyril Ramaphosa to address service delivery and water provision. President Ramaphosa is expected to deliver the first Government of National Unity State of the Nation Address tonight. Residents have grappled with a lack of water…
Hawks and SAPS vehicles at a farm selling rotten and expired food in Mpumalanga. 2 minutes A farmer in Mpumalanga has been arrested for allegedly repackaging expired and rotten food for sale. The Hawks’ Secunda-based Serious Organised Crime Investigation together with the SAPS says they received information about a farmer who allegedly repacked expired and…
FILE PHOTO: A shopper looks for goods during an electricity load-shedding blackout in Johannesburg, South Africa. 1 minute Some energy analysts believe President Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to announce government’s plans to mitigate load shedding when he delivers the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this evening. Eskom implemented stage three load shedding last Friday…
Shaft 11 of a disused mine at Stilfontein. 1 minute The identification of the bodies of illegal mineworkers who had been retrieved from an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West could take some time. The Provincial Health Department says autopsies on 80 bodies have been concluded, but some of the bodies retrieved…
Preparations around the Cape Town City Hall ahead of President Ramaphosa delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA). 2 minutes The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Parliamentary chief whip Mzwanele Manyi has described today’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) as a ‘fake address and a waste of time’. This year’s State of the Nation…
