File image: Putco buses at a depot. 1 minute Putco Bus Company says the number of its buses that have been torched in Mpumalanga overnight has risen to 50. The company says an unknown group of people ambushed security personnel at the Moloto depot and then set buses on fire. Two Putco workers were injured….
File image: Outside the Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court in North West. 1 minute The Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court in the North West is today expected to deliver judgment in the bail application of a man accused of financing terrorism, Ziyadh Hoorzook. Thirty-five-year-old Hoorzook was remanded in custody following the postponement of his bail application last week. He…
File Image: Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg. 1 minute Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson and Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has expressed concern over the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This follows the deaths of nine…
Attendees seen at an initiation school 2 minutes An initiate who fled from an illegal initiation school at Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape is allegedly receiving death threats from some community members. They accuse him of disrespecting the AmaXhosa tradition. The boy escaped from the initiation school last month. He has a wound following a…
The South African Weather Service’s (SAWS) outlook for January 28, 2025. 1 minute The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has advised the public to use social media platforms to get weather updates. This comes after it experienced a security breach on Sunday evening. The breach resulted in the collapse of the SAWS Information and Communication…
SABC Television building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 3 minutes Senior Counsel for Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, Dali Mpofu has argued that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is not entitled to repeat the term “Government of National Unity” simply because it is used by the government. Mpofu says that the SABC should not be…
Team of Blitzboks. 2 minutes The South African Sevens rugby team were beaten 14-7 by Spain in the bronze medal play-off match to settle for fourth place at the Perth leg of the World Rugby Sevens series in Australia. However, Selvyn Davids, hit back one minute later to level matters for the Blitzboks. The two…
Makgotso “Gogo Maweni” Mofokeng appears in court. 1 minute Traditional healer, Makgotso “Gogo Maweni” Mofokeng has been released on R5 000 bail after briefly appearing in the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto. Mofokeng is facing a charge of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm. She was arrested on 19 January in connection…
A gavel in the courtroom. 1 minute A couple accused of murdering an ex-partner is expected to be sentenced at the Pretoria High Court tomorrow. Sibusiso and Lerato Mahlangu were found guilty of the premeditated murder of Mahlangu’s former partner, Sibusiso Sithebe. The pair have also been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, and three…
Residents look on as the fire gutters the shacks. 1 minute Displaced residents from the Booysens informal settlement in Johannesburg, are calling on the government for urgent assistance. This as scores of residents were left homeless this afternoon after a fire ripped through the informal settlement. The exact cause of the fire is still unknown…
