1 minute Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Trade, Industry and Competition says the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is on the verge of collapse. Among the problems it highlighted was the agency’s inability to carry out basic functions such as product testing. The Committee visited the agency’s headquarters in Pretoria on Monday. Committee member Toby…
City Power has returned to a residential building on Twist Street that was found to have illegally reconnected itself to the electricity network. 1 minute Johannesburg’s City Power says its own internal investigation has revealed that some of the illegal electricity connections are implemented by its employees and contractors. The power utility says it dismissed…
3 minutes The safe havens yen and Swiss franc held near six-month highs on Tuesday while the US dollar nursed broad losses as financial markets grappled with mounting recession worries in the wake of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The currency markets were fragile but eerily calm in Asian trade after a volatile 24-hour period…
AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot miniature in this illustration. 4 minutes Proper Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure, including access to high-speed internet, computational resources and data storage capabilities are some of the challenges hindering some G20 countries, participating and benefiting from the advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Conversations on Day 3 of the G20 Working Group…
Former test batsman Will Pucovski 2 minutes Former test batsman Will Pucovski has confirmed his retirement from cricket at the age of 27 as the Australian continues to battle concussion symptoms more than a year after being struck by a ball in a domestic match. The Melbourne native was once seen as the future of…
[File photo] Outside the Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. 1 minute The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court is expected to deliver judgment today in the bail application of the 41-year-old man accused of the assault at the Zanzou nightclub. The Congolese national was arrested last month when videos surfaced showing young men at the Pretoria nightclub being sexually…
Joburg EMS fire-fighter. 1 minute A fire has broken out at a factory building in the Johannesburg CBD. Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson, Nana Radebe-Kgiba says they received a call at about 10pm about a building on fire. Radebe-Kgiba says, “On arrival we found that the two-story building was in fact on fire. The fire had already…
A body of a deceased person in a mortuary. 2 minutes One of the families of the three people whose corpses were stolen from a funeral parlour in Kuruman, in the Northern Cape in March, say they will never find closure, until their loved one, Diteko Batswadi is found and buried. It’s been over three…
Outside the Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. 1 minute Police arrested a 41-year-old man in Yeoville, Johannesburg, in connection with the incident at the Zanzou nightclub in Pretoria. Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) officers were on patrol in Yeoville when they identified the suspect from videos circulating on social media. After verifying his identity, they arrested…
the National Home Builders Regulatory Council’s (NHBRC) investigation into a building that collapsed in George, Western Cape, in 2024. 1 minute Minister of Human Settlements Thembi Simelane briefs the media on the outcomes of the National Home Builders Regulatory Council’s (NHBRC) investigation into a building that collapsed in George, Western Cape, in 2024.
