The strike by operators has affected over 200 000 learners across Gauteng The Gauteng Small Bus Operators Council has accused the provincial education department of violating learners’ constitutional right to education. This comes after members affiliated to the council stopped operating their buses – claiming they have not been paid by the department for months. The…
The Western Cape High Court. The state witness known as Mr X in the trial of alleged underworld crime boss, Jerome Booysen, has conceded that some of the evidence he gave to Crime Intelligence upon his arrest regarding his involvement in the murder of steroids king, Brian Wainstein, may have been captured incorrectly or misunderstood. This came…
FILE IMAGE | Crowd gathers as forensic personnel investigate after the deaths of patrons found inside the Enyobeni Tavern, in Scenery Park. The inquest into the Enyobeni Tavern tragedy has been postponed to the 23rd of February in the East London Magistrate’s Court sitting in Mdantsane. This is due to the presiding magistrate having been unable to attend…
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation visit Bishop John Bolana’s home in the Eastern Cape on 09 February 2026. President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the late fifth Bantu Church of Christ, Bishop John Bolana, as a voice of knowledge that he consulted from time to time. He visited the bereaved Bolana family in Gqeberha in the…
Water in buckets during a water crisis. The City of Tshwane says excessive household water consumption is placing its water supply system under severe strain. Areas including Hammanskraal West, Mamelodi Extension 10, Irene, Danville and Soshanguve South have been identified as some of the biggest contributors to the spike. Spokesperson Selby Bokaba says the average…
Two of the accused in the Meyiwa murder trial. Accused number 2 in the Senzo Meyiwa trial, Bongani Ntanzi, says investigators were not specific on the date the soccer captain was killed when they asked for his alibi. Ntanzi, who is on trial with four others for the 2014 murder of the Bafana Bafana captain,…
File Image of a school. Parents of learners enrolled at Tsandzanani Primary School in Matsulu, in Mpumalanga, are appealing to the provincial Education Department, to finish the school project. They say the school was left incomplete in 2014, with a shortage of six classrooms, toilets, a library and an administrative block. The school is struggling…
City Power offices in Johannesburg. Johannesburg’s City Power is calling on all customers who are running full-time businesses from properties registered as residential to change to a business classification. This has a significate impact on the tariffs they are charged. Residential tariffs are designed and priced based on normal household consumption patterns, while business tariffs have higher consistent electricity usage…
The administration building of the University of the Western Cape. Students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) have shut down the campus, blocking vehicles coming in and out demanding accommodation. Student Representative Council (SRC) President, Mcntosh Khasembe, says there are about 4 000 students that still need to be placed in residences. They are…
Suspended Ekurhuleni Head of Legal and Risk Services Advocate Kemi Behari says he has never interacted with witness D also known as Marius van der Merwe and the allegations against him are unfounded. Van der Merwe was killed in an apparent hit in Boksburg last year. Behari has on Monday morning taken to the stand at…
