Rugby balls on the field 1 minute The Bulls have strengthened their top 4 position in the United Rugby Championship, beating Italian side Zebre Parma 63-24 in Pretoria. The home side ran the Italians off their feet, scoring nine tries while Zebre only managed to cross their opponents’ line three times. The Pretoria side opened…
Locals are seen outside a polling station during tense local municipal elections. 2 minutes South Africans head to another round of by-elections in the country next week Wednesday, when 29 candidates from 16 political parties will contest vacant wards in the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. One of two vacant wards in KwaZulu-Natal is…
Money 1 minute National Treasury’s Q2 report for 2024/25 reveals that municipalities underspent on conditional grants and capital projects. These funds were meant for infrastructure development and emergency disaster repairs. The grants were allocated for programmes to support the development of infrastructure and fund emergency repairs after unforeseen disasters. This also includes funding the implementation…
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland reacts after a match 1 minute Manchester City have rejected allegations that striker Erling Haaland hit the club’s mascot Moonbeam on the back of the head causing injuries requiring hospital treatment, British media reported. The incident occurred before the home Premier League match against Southampton in October. The woman playing the…
Recently a pupil from Limpopo committed suicide after a bullying incident at school 2 minutes The family of a Grade 12 learner from Kgabo Secondary School at Mokgokong Village, outside Polokwane in Limpopo, who committed suicide in October last year, has expressed outrage and frustration over the Department of Education’s continued silence on the matter….
A farming tractor. 2 minutes Members of the Sediba Irrigation Scheme Cooperative in Thaba Nchu, in the Free State have called on the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform to release farming equipment worth R13.9 million. The equipment has been sitting idle at the Sediba Trust village since 2020. This is after the keys…
Dulcie September 1 minute Today marks the 37th commemoration since the assassination of Cape Town struggle stalwart Dulcie September. She was shot and killed on the 29th of March, 1988, while working as an ANC representative in Paris, France. She became involved in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa. There have been repeated…
A woman pleads against rape at the “Day of Action Against Rape” protest. 1 minute Close to 100 people are marching in Johannesburg calling for justice for a seven-year-old girl raped at a private school in Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. The incident happened last year while the girl was waiting for transport to take…
A police officer seen outside a voting station during the local government elections. 2 minutes The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it has resolved to support and campaign for the South African Communist Party (SACP) in the forthcoming local government elections. This follows the union’s political council in Kempton Park in eastern Johannesburg. NUM…
A hospital ward with empty beds. 1 minute The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Mpumalanga is calling on the Health Professions Council to investigate the nurses accused of mistreating a patient at the Tonga Hospital in Nkomazi, Mpumalanga. This after a video of a naked patient being assaulted by a nurse circulated on social media early…
