Survivors and locals walk past the gutted block at the Usindiso building in Johannesburg after the blaze on August 30, 2023. 1 minute The trial of a man accused of starting the fire at the Usindiso building in Johannesburg that claimed 76 lives in 2023 continues in the High Court in Johannesburg, sitting in Palm…
Xabi Alonso before a match 1 minute Xabi Alonso has been appointed Real Madrid manager, the LaLiga club said on Sunday as the Spaniard returns to the Santiago Bernabeu where he spent six seasons as a player and won several trophies. Alonso has signed a three-year contract until June 2028 and the 43-year-old replaces Carlo Ancelotti, who took…
FILE | President Cyril Ramaphosa during a meeting at the Union Building in Pretoria. 1 minute A 28-year-old suspect is expected to appear at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court today on charges of intimidation. This follows his arrest in Germiston on the East Rand by the Hawks’ Crime Against The State (CATS) unit after he…
1 minute The man, who manipulated images of prominent people, including the President, by superimposing their faces onto pornographic content before distributing them, has been jailed. The Pietermaritzburg Regional Court has sentenced Thabiso Nene to five years in prison for contravening the Cybercrimes Act. Nene unlawfully downloaded images of the president, a former police minister,…
Minister in the Presidency for Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, Maropene Ramokgopa 3 minutes Minister in the Presidency for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Maropene Ramakgopa, says Africa needs to tackle illicit financial flows, as they reverse the continent’s development. She was speaking to members of the G20 Development Working Group, currently meeting in Durban to address…
Former President Thabo Mbeki 2 minutes Former President Thabo Mbeki has defended the singing of the “Kill the Boer Kill the Farmer” song, saying it is just a chant, and doesn’t mean white farmers must be killed. Speaking to the SABC in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Mbeki says he explained the song during the Truth…
Former Springbok player Cornal Hendricks 1 minute Hundreds of mourners gathered at the NG Kerk in Wellington, Boland, in the Western Cape, to pay their final respects to former Springbok player Cornal Hendricks. The 37-year-old passed away just over a week ago after suffering a heart attack. He had been diagnosed with a heart condition…
Lesotho Highlands Water Tunnel 1 minute The Lesotho Highlands Water Tunnel has finally been reopened after being two months behind schedule. The maintenance, repair and refurbishment work started in October last year and was initially scheduled to be completed within six months. The tunnel channels water from Lesotho to South Africa delivering about 700 million…
England’s Shoaib Bashir 2 minutes Shoaib Bashir picked up a career-best six wickets in the second innings as England beat Zimbabwe by an innings and 45 runs on day three of the one-off test at Trent Bridge on Saturday. After being reduced to 141-3 at lunch, following Bashir’s breakthrough for England in the first session,…
Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s former ambassador to the US. 1 minute Former South African ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool asserts that America’s hostile stance toward South Africa is rooted in Pretoria’s decision to take Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Speaking in Cape Town following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent meeting with Donald…
