Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke 1 minute Adopted at the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action remains a landmark global agreement, outlining 12 critical areas to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls worldwide. As 2025 marks its 30th anniversary, the call to accelerate efforts toward dismantling legal,…
SAPS to destroy confiscated drugs 1 minute The South African Police Service (SAPS) is working in partnership with other countries in South America, Europe, and Australia to remove drugs off the streets. National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola says a number of operations with these countries have yielded good results in getting drugs off the…
South African Police Service (SAPS) 2 minutes The Democratic Alliance (DA) has sought to clarify why it is investigating the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID). It says it wants to determine whether the directorate has sufficient resources to enable it to hold police officers accountable. The party launched a Parliamentary probe into the IPID following…
Proteas celebrating on the field. 2 minutes South Africa’s national cricket team, the Proteas, is gearing up for their ICC Champions Trophy semi-final against New Zealand at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Wednesday. The mood in the camp is upbeat and the Proteas are confident that they can progress to Sunday’s final for the…
Traffic officer checking if the vehicle is roadworthy. 2 minutes Johannesburg motorists say it’s unfair to be expected to pay unknown speeding fines at a roadblock, when stopped by the city’s Metro Police. The JMPD is experiencing a backlog of issuing Camera generated speeding fines to motorists who have infringed the road speed limit. JMPD…
JMPD officer checking a motorist driving licence. 2 minutes The South African Post Office says the delays in dispatching traffic infringement notices is due to a historical debt by the City of Johannesburg (COJ). Johannesburg Metro Police Department is experiencing a backlog in issuing camera-generated speeding fines to motorists who have infringed the road speed…
Proposed Governance Regulations for the NHI Fund have been published. 1 minute The Western Cape Health Department says they’re not supporting the National Health Insurance (NHI) as it is ill-defined, impractical and unaffordable and will not address the needs of the province. Western Cape Health Minister, Mireille Wenger, says they do support the expanding of…
Minister of Electricity Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa 1 minute The Minister of Electricity and Energy Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, has said that they are hoping to end the imposed Stage 3 rolling blackouts by Monday. He was giving an update on the status of the country’s grid, alongside the management of power utility Eskom in Pretoria. Ramokgopa has…
[File Image]: Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) hold placards. 2 minutes The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) has strongly condemned the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane, Dr Nasiphi Moya’s failure to receive a memorandum of demands from workers. NUMSA members marched on the City…
Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero 2 minutes Johannesburg executive mayor Dada Morero says they will move with speed to rectify all service delivery issues as requested by the president. This followed engagements with President Cyril Ramaphosa, businesses and other role players in Johannesburg. Ramaphosa raised concerns about the state of decay of the city. He told…
