Pelindaba outside Pretoria. 1 minute The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, (Necsa) is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its first nuclear reactor SAFARI-1. This is the first nuclear research reactor on the African continent commissioned back in 1965. The reactor located at Pelindaba, outside Pretoria, currently produces nuclear medical isotopes used for cancer detection and…
President Cyril Ramaphosa. 1 minute President Cyril Ramaphosa says the cutting of USAID to South Africa has been a wake-up call. The president was speaking at the first day of nursing union Denosa’s 9th National Congress at Birchwood on Gauteng’s east rand. A key discussion of the meeting is the aftermath of the cutting of…
Cosatu members protests against VAT hike in Johannesburg on March 20, 2025. 2 minutes The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was the first organisation at the public hearings on the 2025 budget today to call for the removal of Value-Added Tax (VAT) hikes. Parliament’s Joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance and…
1 minute Northern Cape Finance MEC Venus Blennies delivers the provincial budget. LIVE|
Former soccer officials Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini 3 minutes Former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, and France soccer great, Michel Platini, will appear before a Swiss court on Tuesday to hear whether the case that finished their careers in football will end with their acquittals or convictions for corruption. The pair, once among the most…
1 minute Limpopo Finance MEC Kgabo Mahoai delivers the provincial budget. LIVE |
A prison fence. 1 minute A 39-year-old man has been sentenced to five life sentences by the Bloemfontein Regional Court in the Free State. He was found guilty of five counts of rape dating back to 2019. Police Spokesperson Mahlomola Kareli says Anthony Trevor Watson’s modus operandi involved meeting his victims under various pretenses and…
Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and Premier Panyaza Lesufi seen visiting the families of the victims of the Soshanguve shooting. 2 minutes Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says police resources have been increased in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, to fight crime. Mchunu is visiting the area following a shooting incident at the Marry Me informal settlement last…
State witness in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping case, Lourentia Lombaard, takes an oath before testifying. 2 minutes The cross examination of the key state witness, Lourentia Lombaard, in the Joshlin Smith trial, is continuing in the Western Cape High Court sitting at Saldanha Bay on the Cape West Coast. Lombaard is being questioned by accused…
Policeman in courtroom 1 minute KwaZulu-Natal police have warned residents of KwaMashu in northern Durban against criminals impersonating officers. This follows incidents in which criminals used the same modus operandi to commit robberies in homes. In a recent case, men posing as police officers robbed a 36-year-old woman of cellphones and cash in her home…
