SABC News 2025 Top stories review 2025 has proven to be an eventful year for South African news and current affairs, sparking public discourse among many South Africans. SABC Digital News presents the top headline stories that dominated news and current affairs in 2025. 2025 TOP 10 HEADLINE STORIES by SABC Digital News Graphic by…
Festive season road safety campaign. Deputy Minister of Transport Mkhuleko Hlengwa says they are encouraged by traffic officers who are applying zero tolerance towards motorists attempting to bribe officers after failing to comply with traffic laws. A high number of motorists have been arrested for drunk driving, reckless and negligent driving, and operating unroadworthy vehicles…
Police tape at the scene of a crime. Police have launched a manhunt for suspects in the killing of 16-year-old learner Linomtha Skeyi from Makhanda in the Eastern Cape. Skeyi was reported missing on Christmas Eve after her body was found in an open field behind the provincial Social Development Department’s offices in Makhanda. Police…
File Image: Matric learners in an exam room. The National Investigative Task Team, set up following a matric exam cheating scandal, is set to submit its preliminary report to Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube this week. Twenty-six matric candidates from seven schools in Pretoria were found to have allegedly accessed matric exam papers in English…
An SAPS chopper searchers for missing SANDF member at the Nkomati river in Komatipoort, Mpumalanga. The South African Police Service’s (SAPS) Diving Unit in Mpumalanga says it is getting difficult to search for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) member who remains missing as the river is again breaking its banks after Saturday night’s…
Handcuffs depicting an arrest. Three suspects arrested on the Cape Flats are expected to appear in court on Monday. The suspects are charged with murder, attempted murder, possession of illegal firearms, and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act. The arrests followed police anti-gang violence operations during the weekend. The three include a suspect…
Empty benches in court. Eleven people, including ten alleged illegal miners, are expected to appear in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court in western Johannesburg on Monday. They were arrested in Bekkersdal on Wednesday last week after allegedly being found in possession of illegal firearms and ammunition. #sapsGP Ten foreign nationals suspected to be illegal miners were…
Handcuffs. Police top brass in the Western Cape say sterling detective work led to the breakthrough in several investigations. That resulted in the arrest of three wanted suspects during raids in various areas on the Cape Flats, in the early hours, on Sunday. Police Spokesperson, Brigadier Novela Potelwa says the arrests happened during operations in…
A collapsed building in Soweto. A Soweto man has described how he battled to rescue members of his family after their double-story property collapsed in Doornkop, in the early hours of Sunday morning. Three of his relatives including a child died after being trapped under the rubble. Three others were rushed to Chris Hani Baragwanath…
FILE | KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) Mbongeni Sikhakhane. The family of the slain KwaZulu-Natal Chairperson of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) Mbongeni Sikhakhane is calling for justice. He was attacked at his home in Sweetwaters, in Pietermaritzburg, on Friday. It is alleged that five armed…
