Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago. The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is expected to deliver its first interest rate decision of the year on Thursday afternoon in Pretoria. The bank last cut rates by 25-basis-points in November last year, taking the repo rate to 6.75% and the prime lending rate to…
FILE | Law enforcement authorities seen outside Addington primary school. KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka has ordered that over 20 learners from flood affected families be absorbed at Durban’s Addington Primary School. Altogether 26 of these learners were brought to the school in uniforms. This is after two weeks of protests by the March and March movement…
Launch of the initiative Microsoft and the public broadcaster have launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) service on the SABC Plus platform. This was announced at Microsoft’s AI Tour 2026 conference happening at the Sandton Convention Centre. The collaboration works in which Microsoft provides key information around Artificial Intelligence on the SABC Plus platform. The aim…
Constitutional Court Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga (Centre) chairs the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System in Pretoria on January 29, 2026. President Cyril Ramaphosa says he expects all law enforcement agencies to implement the Madlanga Commission report which was submitted to him in December. He has welcomed…
Businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala together with co-accused appear in the High Court in Johannesburg on January 29, 2026. The pre-trial hearing of controversial businessman Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala, together with his four co-accused, has been postponed to February 6 at the High Court in Johannesburg. Matlala is facing 11 counts of attempted murder, along with a…
South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter addresses the 10th ATRN Congress in Cape Town on September 16, 2025. Action SA is calling for the next South African Revenue Service (SARS) Commissioner to be appointed from within the organisation. The party says this would ensure continuity and protect the institution’s credibility, following Edward Kieswetter‘s…
FILE | ALS Paramedics’ vehicles. Eleven people have reportedly been killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles on the R102 in Isipingo, Durban. ALS Paramedics Spokesperson Garrith Jamieson is urging motorists to use alternative routes. Jamieson says the events leading up to the incident are not clear. He says, “At this stage, I can confirm…
KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head General Lesetja Senona on day 48 at the Madlanga Commission, January 28, 2026. It has emerged that KwaZulu-Natal Hawks head Major General Lesetja Senona leaked the confidential information of police officers to attempted murder accused, Vusimuzi ‘Cat’ Matlala. The leaked ID numbers were contained in an affidavit relating to an alleged Mozambican…
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s showing appreciation of the country’s steady growth and upwardly revising its growth projections, South Africa is on course to meet its National Development Plan (NDP) objectives. In 2012, Cabinet adopted the NDP as the country’s economic…
Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago The Reserve Bank is widely expected to keep the repo rate unchanged when it makes its announcement on Thursday. This means indebted consumers will continue paying the same for their debt instalments, while those with savings, will continue earning the same interest rate. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cut rates by…
