President Cyril Ramaphosa bestows National Orders at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Pretoria on April 28, 2023. President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Tuesday morning bestow National Orders on distinguished South Africans and foreign nationals who have made significant contributions to the country’s democracy. The National Orders will take place at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential…
Workers chat near a gasoline filling station, under ground a mine as South Africa’s Gold Fields bets on solar to cut costs and carbon, at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine, south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa October 12, 2022. Tensions are high as wage talks at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine commence this week. Labour unions…
National Prosecuting Authority office building. The National Prosecuting Authority’s Head, Andy Mothibi says the Kwaggafontein State Prosecutor who was a no a show in a case involving prominent businessman, Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni has been suspended pending an internal investigation. The prosecutor was supposed to have led the state in Sibanyoni’s extortion case on Monday, but…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Limpopo legislature says it will write to the Agriculture Department’s MEC Nakedi Kekana to intervene, into what it calls failures by the state veterinary services to properly record and issue proof of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccinations. The party’s Lindy Wilson says the failures undermine disease control, livestock…
Prominent taxi boss Madoda “Joe Ferrari” Sibanyoni and three co-accused appear Kwaggafontein Magistrate’s Court. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says that an instruction has already gone out for the court matter involving prominent taxi boss Madoda “Joe Ferrari” Sibanyoni and three co-accused to be re-enrolled. The case was struck off the roll by the Kwaggafontein…
Police are searching for toddler Omphile Sithole. Limpopo police and the family of a missing two-year old baby girl, Omphile Sithole, say the search is still continuing. Omphile mysteriously disappeared from the house in which she and her grandmother were sleeping in at Ga-Mabuela village outside Mokopane on 2 May. The paternal grandparents were charged…
Party members The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has announced another major leadership reshuffle, removing Nhlamulo Ndhlela as the party’s national spokesperson and appointing former journalist Sifiso Mahlangu as his replacement. The announcement was made during a media briefing in Durban on Monday evening. The changes form part of a broader restructuring within the party following…
A resident gestures while raising his concerns amid ongoing protests in Phomolong in the Free State during an engagement with Premier Letsoha-Mathae on 15 May 2026. Free State Acting Premier, Jabu Mbalula, has called for calm and patience from residents of Phomolong in Hennenman. Residents have been engaging in ongoing protests since last month, demanding…
Logo of the IFP during the party’s 50th anniversary celebration. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has sacked a KwaZulu-Natal councillor from the party over allegations of extortion and a money scam. The party says Sipho ‘ES’ Mbatha, who served as a PR councillor in the King Cetshawayo District Municipality, has been expelled and removed from…
A file image of youth behind an unemployment sign. There have been more than 53 000 job losses in Mpumalanga between January and March this year. The province’s unemployment rate has increased to 36.3% from 32.3% in the previous quarter. The expanded unemployment rate is now sitting at 49.6%. Labour Federation Cosatu has called on…
