Residents collect water from a tanker. Residents in the Western suburbs and parts of the Northern areas of Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) in the Eastern Cape, are continuing to face ongoing water outages, leaving many households without reliable access to water for the past two weeks. Bonke Mvimbi says the intermittent supply has disrupted daily…
Student working on a laptop The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has promised to release the first accommodation funding for 2026 next week Friday. Some student accommodation providers have expressed frustration with delays in payments for students they are housing. Some of the landlords also want the financial aid scheme to pay their historical…
A low-lying bridge almost submerged by flood waters Four people are missing after a bakkie was swept away by flood water when the driver tried to cross a low bridge in the Msinga area in KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday night. The provincial Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) says there were eight people in…
Person walks with umbrella in the rain The South African Weather Service (SAWS) says residents in Gauteng should prepare for cloudy conditions with widespread showers and thundershowers the whole of Friday, with an 80% chance of rain across the province. South African Weather Service senior forecaster Tokelo Chiloane says the wet weather is expected to…
Emergency crews assess the structural damage after the multi-storey building gave way in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg. South Africa’s largest construction industry body, Master Builders South Africa, has highlighted poor design and unqualified contractors as some of the leading causes of building collapses. This follows Monday’s collapse at Ormonde, south of Johannesburg, where a concrete…
[File] Court gavel The Mothibistad Regional Court sitting in Kuruman in the Northern Cape has sentenced two men to 20 years each for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl. During the trial, the court heard that, on 21 April 2019, the two accused, aged 32 and 37, had repeatedly raped a minor in Dithakong…
From the left, Micheal Phahlane, Portia Phahlane and Tshepo Phuthi appearing before the Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court. The case against Pretoria High Court Judge Portia Phahlane and prominent faction leader of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, Bhekumuzi Sandlana, has been postponed to the 23rd of July. Two of their three co-accused made a brief…
Judge Mbuyiseli Madlanga The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry doesn’t agree with the application brought by North West businessman Suleiman Carrim to argue the merits of his application in camera. His legal counsel, Adv Kameel Prehmid has argued that Carrim was receiving death threats and thus having his testimony heard in an open session would be…
File: Defence Minister Angie Motshekga briefing the media Some members of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence have accused Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga of defiance. This comes after she failed to pitch for a meeting on the readiness of the South African National Defence Force to be deployed to assist the police…
FILE | A maternity room in a hospital. Members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) in North West took to the streets of Mahikeng to protest against the poor state of healthcare facilities. This after visiting different provincial institutions where they found amongst others, dilapidated infrastructure and lack of equipment. The…
