Minister Steenhuisen and other stakeholders during Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccination Drive. Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has confirmed that President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) to look into the regional approach to combating the Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. Steenhuisen has confirmed that there’s a unique challenge of cross border infections…
Ormonde building collapse The death toll in the Ormonde building collapse has risen to eight. Johannesburg Emergency Services spokesperson, Xolile Khumalo, says rescue and recovery operations resumed Tuesday morning after being suspended on Monday night. She says one person remains unaccounted for. “Recovery operations have commenced for three missing individuals who have been located,…
Deputy National Commissioner for Policing Tebello Mosikili Deputy National Police Commissioner, Tebello Mosikili, will testify before the Ad Hoc Committee today. The committee is investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the criminal justice system. The allegations were made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, during a media briefing in July last…
Deputy National Police Commissioner Lt. Gen Tebello Mosikili appears before the Ad Hoc Committee investigating allegations of criminal infiltration, corruption and political interference in the justice system. LIVE STREAM:
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the High Court in Pretoria. LIVE STREAM:
Convicted murderer and rapist, Thabo Bester, is expected to approach the High Court in Pretoria on an urgent basis to challenge his transfer from the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre in Pretoria to the eBongweni Super Maximum prison in KwaZulu-Natal. Last month, the same matter was struck off the roll. LIVE STREAM:
City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Service (EMS) rescuers attending to a building collapse in Ormonde on March 2, 2026. Search and rescue operations are set to continue at a construction site in Ormonde in Johannesburg following a deadly building collapse. Six bodies were retrieved from the rubble on Monday, while three are still missing. The…
The accused Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze appear at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court. Zimbabwean nationals, Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze, are expected to apply for bail in the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The pair briefly appeared in the same court last week, but the case was postponed for further investigation. The case relates…
FILE | Bullets on top of a table at a police station. A traditional leader has been shot dead and a family member wounded during a robbery at Makhuvha village outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo. The wounded person has been taken to the hospital. Fifty-nine-year-old Chief Ntikedzeni Makhuvha was shot by armed robbers wearing balaclavas and…
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services on the scene at the Ormonde building after it collapsed. Six people have died following a building collapse in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg. It has been confirmed that 12 people were in the building. According to EMS, two people remain trapped, one person has been rescued and three people have not…
