Mahomed Manjoo testifying before the reopened inquest into Luthuli’s death on April 29, 2025. 2 minutes A witness who was a clerk at Stanger Hospital where the late former ANC president Chief Albert Luthuli was admitted after he was reportedly hit by a goods train in 1967, has testified at the re-opened inquest in Pietermaritzburg…
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tables the 2025 budget in the National Assembly in Cape Town on 12 March 2025. 1 minute Parliament will meet the deadlines in law for the adoption of the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals. This is according to Parliamentary spokesperson, Moloto Mothapo. Parliament is supposed to adopt the Budget before…
[FILE IMAGE] Boat on the sea. 2 minutes Small Business Development Minister, Stella Ndabeni says the oceans economy is South Africa’s next gold mine and it’s important that everyone, including those in the townships and villages, benefit from it. She was speaking at the first provincial G20 launch taking place in Gqeberha over the next…
A sign cautioning an accident. 1 minute Three people have been killed and 63 hurt in two separate vehicle crashes near Hoedspruit in Limpopo. Transport Department spokesperson, Tidimalo Chuene says the first crash claimed one passenger and injured 23 people. Chuene says the driver of the light delivery vehicle allegedly lost control and the car…
Three constables, 24-year-old Constable Cebekhulu Linda (male), 30-year-old Constable Keamogetswe Buys (female) and 20-year-old Constable Boipelo Senoge (female) have been found dead. 1 minute National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola has confirmed that three of the five bodies found at the Hennops River in Centurion are those of the missing police officers. The constables went missing…
Accused number three in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping case, Kelly Smith appears at the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay on April 23, 2025. 1 minute The lawyer representing accused number one in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking case, Jacquen Appollis has argued that the state is basing its case on…
The logo of Amazon is seen at the company logistics center in Lauwin-Planque, northern France, January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol 2 minutes After years of waiting, Amazon has finally launched its Kuiper internet satellites. The tech giant launched its first 27 satellites into low-Earth orbit from Florida on Monday, kicking off deployment of a broadband-from-space…
The Deputy Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Sihle Zikalala , together with MEC Sempe Elizabeth Mokua, officially handed over completed Welisizwe Bridges in Kraaipan outside Mahikeng. 2 minutes Deputy Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Sihle Zikalala says the process of handing over more than 200 Welisizwe Rural Bridges is unfolding. Zikalala, together with…
SAPS search and rescue bakkie can be seen in the above illustration. 2 minutes A fifth body has been found at the Hennops River in Centurion, Pretoria. The police’s search and rescue team was searching for the three police constables who went missing last week Wednesday, when they uncovered two more bodies a few kilometres…
Nozizwe KaMabaso-Mhlongo, testifying before the reopened inquest into Luthuli’s death on April 29, 2025. 3 minutes The daughter of a man who used to work at the shop of the former ANC president, Chief Albert Luthuli, has told the Pietermaritzburg High Court that her family used to be harassed by Apartheid-era police due to their…
