Economic Freedom Party (EFF) Julius Malema’s absence at Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee looking into concerns around national security. Proceedings of Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee looking into concerns around national security started with former Independent Police Investigating Directorate (IPID) Head Robert McBride taking the stand. However, the hearings took a dramatic turn after the Economic Freedom…
A broken windscreen. The death toll from this morning’s collision between a scholar transport vehicle and a truck in Vanderbijlpark in the Vaal, has risen to 14 after another learner died in hospital. This after a scholar transport vehicle carrying pupils collided with a a truck this morning. Earlier, Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane said…
Dusk falls on the popular V&A Waterfront district in Cape Town. The City of Cape Town says the increased visitor numbers in the city are a strong indicator that co-ordinated efforts between government and the aviation industry are delivering improved results. The Cape Town International Airport has seen a surge of 11 million visitor numbers…
The scene of a deadly scholar transport crash in Vanderbijlpark on 19 January 2026. Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says preliminary investigations into the cause of the scholar transport crash in Vanderbijlpark indicate that the driver was attempting to overtake multiple vehicles when a head-on collision with a truck occurred. The crash claimed the lives of 13 learners. Five other learners were injured, with…
The Letaba River in Limpopo is over flowing. Matric learners at the Sekgoari Secondary School at Ga-Modjadji village in Bolobedu, Limpopo, have expressed concern that their academic year was delayed due to flooding. The opening of the schools in the flood-hit areas in Mopani, Vhembe and parts of Sekhukhune districts was halted due to persistent…
Former IPID Head Robert McBride is appearing before the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system. LIVESTREAM:
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is continuing in the High Court in Pretoria . Police officers involved in investigations and the arrests are expected to take the stand again. LIVESTREAM:
Qatari rally driver, Nasser Al-Attiyah Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah won the Dakar Rally for the sixth time in the car category on Saturday as Argentina’s Luciano Benavides won by two seconds on two wheels, the narrowest margin ever. Al-Attiyah, with Belgian co-driver Fabian Lurquin, had led overnight after taking his 50th career stage win and made…
Police presence outside the North Gauteng Hight Court in Pretoria on 16 October 2023. The state in the Senzo Meyiwa trial has highlighted contradictions in the testimony of defence witness, Sifiso Gwabini Zungu. He is back on the witness stand at the High Court in Pretoria after the presiding judge ruled that the state can…
Six people have been shot dead in separate incidents in Cape Town. Western Cape Police Spokesperson Andre Traut says officers responded to a report in Melck Street in Ndabeni, where they found four people dead inside an informal dwelling. The motive for the incident is unclear. He says in a separate incident, two men were…
