IMT Evo Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Henk Lategan 1 minute Reigning South African Cross Country Champion, Henk Lategan and his navigator Brett Cummings are back in the lead after the 10th stage of the toughest off-road event in the world, the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. Lategan and Cummings in their Toyota Gazoo Racing Hilux, finished…
Coco Gauff in action 3 minutes No party animal, Australian Open contender Coco Gauff said she might celebrate her coming 21st birthday by tackling an escape room rather than putting on a big bash with friends back in Miami. Having got out of a jam in the second round at Melbourne Park on Wednesday, the young American…
Rescue operations are under way to retrieve illegal miners in Stilfontein. 1 minute Police have confirmed that a cage has been lowered down shaft 11 in Stilfontein, North West, to verify reports by community volunteers that there are no illegal miners remaining underground. Police say the total number of illegal miners retrieved is sitting at…
Shaft 11 in Stilfontein. 1 minute Police say a cage will be lowered underground at shaft 11 in Stilfontein this morning to verify reports by community volunteers that there are no longer any illegal miners underground. The volunteers reported that there are no illegal miners underground, apart from some human remains that they could not…
Rescue teams and SAPS in Stilfontein. 1 minute Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says officials must be given time to wrap up rescue operations at the abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein in the North West, instead of being judged without facts. Mchunu’s comments follow a statement from the South African Federation of Trade Unions, which described…
Members of police force and emergency services gather outside shaft 11 as they conduct rescue operations. 1 minute Police say they are facing a mammoth task of having to identify the bodies of illegal miners who died underground in shaft 11 at the Stilfontein mine. 78 bodies of illegal miners were retrieved since the rescue…
Tomorrow is a rest day for the drivers. 1 minute South Africa’s Henk Lategan and navigator Brett Cummings of Toyota Gazoo Racing had a day they would rather forget and surrendered their overall lead in the Dakar Rally. The duo got lost 13 kilometres into stage nine from Riyadh to Haradh in Saudi Arabia and…
[File photo]: Bullets, a gun and police tape pictured. 2 minutes A Limpopo police officer has been shot and wounded at Mashishing village outside Burgersfort in Limpopo. The officer has been taken to hospital. Police Spokesperson Hlulani Mashaba says the off-duty officer was ambushed by five armed men while parking his bakkie. Mashaba says the…
An empty classroom 1 minute There’s growing anger and frustration among parents queuing outside the Ekurhuleni North District office in Benoni for their children to be placed in schools. Some of the parents say they’ve been going to the district office since Monday. However, they’ve not received a positive response. One parent, Lisakhe Qulu, says…
The Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Plant project in Pretoria. 1 minute City of Tshwane Mayor Nasiphi Moya and her mayoral committee are expected to visit the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Plant today. This comes just days after her visit to Hammanskraal last week where she declared that the water being supplied by the Magalies Klipdrift…
