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…
A view shows the office of TikTok in Culver City, California, March 13, 2024. 5 minutes TikTok plans to shut US operations of its social media app used by 170 million Americans on Sunday, when a federal ban is set to take effect, barring a last-minute reprieve, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday….
File image: A classroom with desks. 2 minutes Advocacy group, Section27, has called on government to build more schools in an effort to resolve learner placement issues. This comes as many Gauteng parents queue at education district offices this morning hoping to secure school placements for their children. Since the inception of the online school…
1 minute The South African government briefs the media ahead of the World Economic (WEF) Forum Annual Meeting. Live proceedings below:
Doc Shebeleza’s children during his memorial service at the SABC premises in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 2 minutes The late Kwaito legend Victor “Doc Shebeleza” Bogopane has been described as a man of integrity, who continuously worked towards the upliftment of his peers in the Kwaito music industry. During an emotional memorial service at the SABC’s…
Outside Levisa Bar in Pienaar, Mpumalanga where eight people were fatally shot. 1 minute Two suspects arrested in connection with the mass shooting in Pienaar Township are expected back in the KaBokweni Magistrate’s court in Mpumalanga today. One suspect appeared yesterday at the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in Mbombela. Speaking during a press briefing at the…
[FILE] Numsa members on strike. 2 minutes The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has embarked on an indefinite strike at the Bidvest SA Container Depot in Durban over the retrenchment of 106 members. The strike follows failed Section-189 consultations between the Numsa and Bidvest which started soon after the notice was served to the…
