KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane warns that stopping ARVs for faith reasons puts lives at risk and that medication saves lives KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Nomagugu Simelane has called for legal steps to be taken against anyone who is spreading misinformation that people should stop taking anti-retroviral (ARV) medicine to suppress HIV, and to rather rely…
NSFAS cup and cap Deputy Higher Education Minister Nomusa Dube-Ncube says those behind National Student Financial Aid Scheme’s (NSFAS) funding of over 800 deceased students must be arrested. Dube-Ncube was responding to findings in the Auditor-General’s 2024/25 report that NSFAS made payments to students who according to Home Affairs records were deceased. [LISTEN] ANCY L…
File: A person drinking water from a tap. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) says the Western Cape Water Supply System remains stable despite recording lower storage levels. The provincial head of the department, Ntombizanele Bila-Mupariwa, says that this is due to lower consumption. She says that the latest data shows that the system…
A picture of a police badge and handcuffs The Eastern Cape Transport Department, says over 130 drivers have been arrested for drunk driving during the Easter Period. Provincial Transport Spokesperson, Unathi Binqose, says they are concerned about this number as traffic volumes are expected to pick up on Sunday as many people will be making…
FILE | TMPD officer making an arrest The Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) says it is shifting its focus to patrolling the inner-city and townships to held curb crime and lawlessness this Easter long weekend. Traffic volumes have since eased on the N1 highway to Limpopo after thousands of holiday makers and ZCC pilgrims left…
Odendaalsrus fraud suspects have been arrested for a bank loan scam A multi-police task team has arrested 10 suspects, one woman and nine men, for alleged fraud in Odendaalsrus, in the Free State. This, after a 47-year-old woman applied for a bank loan using fraudulent documents. Spokesperson Palesa Thabana says police were alerted to a…
A shooting crime scene. A 43-year-old man has been shot dead and a 12-year-old boy wounded in a suspected gang-related shooting in Leiden in Delft, on the Cape Flats. Police spokesperson Wesley Twigg says that the victims had reportedly been sitting outside a house when unknown suspects approached and opened fire, on Friday. He says…
Corrugated asbestos cement roofing. Community members in the Mafefe area, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, are facing a serious health crisis due to asbestos contamination in local rivers and streams. The water has tested positive, according to an independent company, AssureCloud. Contamination is allegedly linked to an abandoned rehabilitation project of the old asbestos mine by…
The scene of the head-on collision between two vehicles at Ga-Chuene, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo. The number of people killed in a head-on collision between two vehicles at Ga-Chuene between Polokwane and Lebowakgomo in Limpopo has now increased to two. The Transport Department says one of the two people who had been admitted at a…
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen seen during Foot and Mouth vaccination drive at ZZ2 Kareebosch Farm. The Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape says no new cases of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) have been reported over the past two weeks. The official number of farms in the region affected by the disease remains…
