Springboks during a training session. 2 minutes The South African national rugby side is anticipating a reaction from England when the two sides meet at Twickenham in South West London on Saturday. The English are licking their wounds after two close run losses in succession, and the Boks expect a dangerous home team this time…
[File Image]: Security officers walk past the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in Sandton, South Africa, March 30, 2020. 3 minutes The Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) decision to fine and ban Thabi Leoka, former director of several listed companies, has been welcomed. The local bourse announced that the disgraced director will face a R500,000 fine for…
SABC TV Park building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 1 minute South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)‘s Chief Financial Officer Yolande van Biljon has resigned and Tendai Matore has been appointed acting CFO. Biljon’s final day at the public broadcaster will be on November 30th. The SABC says in a statement that van Biljon contributed to the…
SABC TV Park building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 1 minute South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)‘s Chief Financial Officer Yolande van Biljon has resigned and Tendai Matore has been appointed acting CFO. Biljon’s final day at the public broadcaster will be on November 30th. The SABC says in a statement that van Biljon contributed to the…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa will address the nation this evening at 7:30 pm about the recurring incidents of food-borne illnesses that have claimed the lives of a number of children. In the latest incident, 70 learners were hospitalised for a suspected food-borne illnesses at a school near Giyani in Limpopo. They…
A suspect being placed under arrest. 1 minute Four police officers are to appear in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga for alleged theft and defeating the ends of justice. It is alleged the detectives searched a house of an alleged paymaster of illegal miners in Barberton, and confiscated R1.8 million. However, the money was…
File photo: Deliberation in the eThekwini Municipality Council chambers. 2 minutes The DA in KwaZulu-Natal says the slur by an unidentified councillor at an eThekwini council meeting last week was a vicious and calculated attack against the South African Indian community. It emerged that the councillor in question yelled “Go back to Bombay” at DA…
A gavel used in the court of law. 1 minute The bail application of diamond dealer Louis Liebenberg’s wife, Desiree, has been postponed to Thursday next week. The couple appeared in the Bronkhortspruit Magistrate’s Court in Pretoria along with the seven other co-accused. The case relates to a scam in which investors were swindled out…
ANC 1st deputy Secretary General, Nomvula Mokonyane. 1 minute The ANC’s first deputy secretary general, Nomvula Mokonyane will this weekend lead the party’s electioneering campaign at the Thabazimbi local municipality in Limpopo. There will be a by-election at the Thabazimbi Municipality on the 4th of December following the dissolution of the municipal council. ANC Limpopo…
Increased police visibitly at the Stilfontein mine shaft. 2 minutes Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and his deputy Cassel Mathale have conducted an oversight inspection in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the North West. They are accompanied by the provincial Premier, Lazarus Mokgosi and MEC for Community Safety and Transport management Wessels Morweng. This after about fifty…
