Eskom offices The Mpumalanga Executive Council has issued a directive to all municipalities owing Eskom to repay their debt. Municipalities such as Govan Mbeki, Emalahleni and Thaba Chweu are owing millions of rands for electricity. Eskom has threatened to switch-off electricity for those municipalities failing to service their debt. Executive council spokesperson Thulasizwe Thomo says they are also encouraging communities to pay rates…
A tractor carries harvested sugar cane to be processed The application in the Durban High Court for the provisional liquidation of sugar giant Tongaat Hulett has been postponed, after applicants and respondents could not agree on dates for the matter to be heard. The Durban High Court in Kwazulu Natal is set to hear an…
Ekapa Mine in Kimberley in the Northern Cape. A Former Ekapa mine worker has exclusively told SABCNews how, in the hours following a devastating mud rush that trapped five men, another one occurred while they were still trying to rescue the men. Electrical engineer Hannes Burger, the first former worker to speak to the media,…
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and his team at Treasury have received unusual praise from most political parties for the 2026 budget. Godongwana appeared before Parliament’s Joint Standing & Select Finance and Appropriations Committees. He tabled the 2026 Budget Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals during a sitting of Parliament on Wednesday. Members serving…
A welcome in SA colours. SA Tourism says the country’s tourist attractions remain highly ranked internationally. Some emerging tourism operators say the news is a boost for their businesses. They shared their experiences with their counterparts from New Zealand and Australia during SA Tourism’s flagship Mega Lekker Escape at a resort in Pilanesburg in the…
Cape Town International Airport. Cape Town Tourism CEO, Enver Duminy, says they are working closely with aviation partners and will share updates as new information becomes available, following escalating tensions in the Middle East. Airlines suspended flights across the Middle East on Saturday, including to and from the world’s busiest travel hub, Dubai, after the…
Ekapa Mine in Kimberley in the Northern Cape. Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Gwede Mantashe says the retrieval of the bodies of the five men trapped 890 meters underground will be achieved soon. He returned to Ekapa Mine in Kimberley, Northern Cape, on Friday. Mantashe says dewatering of the shaft has been successfully achieved…
FILE: Mineworkers underground. About R113 million has been paid out to gold mineworkers in the North West through the Tshiamiso Trust. The trust, together with the South African Ex-Mineworkers Council and the North West Health Department is participating in an outreach programme at the Job Shimankane Hospital in Rustenburg. The aim is to assist qualifying…
FILE | A worker at Tongaat-Hulett Mill. The High Court in Durban will hear an application for the provisional liquidation of Tongaat-Hulett on Friday. Business rescue practitioners have brought the application. The company was placed under business rescue in 2022. Since then, the 134-year-old sugar giant has suffered a R12 billion share value loss. This…
Ekapa mine shaft Over 1 000 workers have been left jobless and their salaries not paid after the Ekapa Minerals Mine, where five miners remain trapped after a mud rush incident last Tuesday, was put under liquidation. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) says it will approach the courts for a way…
