2025

1 minute Police are exhuming the remains of an estimated 40 people who were secretly buried in a pauper’s grave in the Mookgophong cemetery in Limpopo. The remains were buried in two separate graves without coffins, allegedly by a funeral parlour contracted by the provincial health department. Police and forensic officials from the Health Department…

[File photo] Former SAA Board member Yakhe Kwinana appears at the East London Magistrates Court in the Eastern Cape on 26 March 2025. 1 minute The case against the former SAA Board Member, Yakhe Kwinana, has been postponed in the East London Magistrate’s Court, in the Eastern Cape to the 5th of August. The lengthy…

Gauteng Health’s Spokesperson Motalatale Modiba outlines measures to prevent burn injuries. 1 minute Residents are urged to exercise caution to prevent burn injuries as winter sets in. Today marks the start of National Burns Awareness Week, observed from 06 to 12 May. According to the World Health Organisation, an estimated 3.2% of people in South Africa…

City of Joburg Executive Mayor Dada Morero. 1 minute The Democratic Alliance in Johannesburg claims the City of Johannesburg is in a state of total collapse. The party has cited, among others, the crumbling infrastructure, potholes, broken traffic lights, and electricity and water supply problems. The DA’s Johannesburg Caucus briefed the media in Johannesburg on…

Chief Albert Luthuli. 4 minutes Police crime scene analyst, Brenden Burgess, has testified in the re-opened inquest into the death of ANC leader, inkosi Albert Luthuli, in the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the version of the driver of the train that allegedly hit him is highly unlikely. The first inquest in 1967 heard that the…

One of the many roads that have been washed away during flooding in KZN. 3 minutes KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC, Siboniso Duma, has expressed concerns that 30 contractors who were awarded road tenders cost the department R4,6 billion because they don’t complete the projects by the deadline. Two of these contractors have abandoned projects altogether. Duma…

[File photo] Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube 4 minutes The Department of Basic Education says 90% of the public schools are currently in a better position in terms of the infrastructure assessment conducted. The department gave an update on the progress made on school infrastructure to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education in Parliament. It…

Document showing corruption. 2 minutes Mpumalanga Premier, Mandla Ndlovu, says the provincial Department of Education did not follow the correct procurement process when it bought 22 laptops. He says the devices that allegedly cost over R2 million were also of poor quality. Ndlovu says the money spent on the laptops will be recovered from the…