A person behind bars. 2 minutes The former Head of Department at the North West Department of Community Safety and Transport Management Bailey Mahlakoleng has been sentenced to two years imprisonment or R200 000 fine. This is after he pleaded guilty before the North West High court today, for contravening the Public Finance Management Act…
Gauteng Education MEC, Matome Chiloane speaking at the school safety Imbizo. 2 minutes Gauteng Education MEC, Matome Chiloane says bullying, gangsterism, physical fights and substance abuse are having a negative impact on learning and teaching in many schools in Ekurhuleni on Gauteng’s East Rand. He says they’ve identified about 55 schools in the region where…
Steve Biko Academic Hospital Building. 1 minute The Gauteng health department says the evacuated ICU patients following a fire at Steve Biko Academic Hospital early this morning will be moved back to their wards once the air sampling is concluded, the smoke odour is neutralised and the wards cleaned. Tshwane fire fighters say 20 adult…
People standing in a queue for updating prepaid meters in Soweto. 2 minutes There’s frustration among Eskom customers as hundreds of them continue to queue outside the power utility’s offices across Johannesburg to have their prepaid electricity meters recoded. There’s a long queue in Chiawelo, Soweto, with some elderly standing in the scorching sun. Tomorrow…
A prepaid meter. 1 minute City Power says it is now left with just over 600 customers who still need have their meters upgraded. City Power spokesperson Isaac Mangena says it is promising that they might reach the Sunday deadline. He says by extending working hours and suspending penalty fees, technicians were able to resolve…
Anglican Archbishop, Thabo Makgoba. 1 minute The Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba, has appointed a three-person panel to review how the Anglican Church in South Africa handles reports of abuse. The review panel will include Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Advocate Jeremy Gauntlett and retired Judge, Ian Farlam. The trio will in turn make findings and…
Uniterrupted Power Supply (UPS) lithium batteries backup system caught fire at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital (23 November 2024) 1 minute Some patients and staff at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria have been evacuated following a fire at the hospital in the early hours of this morning. No injuries have been reported following…
NSRI members during a rescue 1 minute The bodies of a teenager and a man—believed to have drowned in separate incidents—have been retrieved from different areas along the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. The male teenager disappeared at Pennington Beach on Wednesday. In the second incident, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) in Port Edward was on…
Stormy Weather sign post. 1 minute The Disaster Management Team in the Msunduzi Municipality in Pietermaritzburg says it’s still assessing the extent of the damage that heavy rains and a storm caused in the area on Thursday night. Scores of residents were displaced after their homes were flooded. The municipality has confirmed that over seven…
Second phase of government’s operation to retrieve illegal miners from underground in Stilfontein. 2 minutes The South African Council of Churches (SACC) General-Secretary, the Reverend Mzwandile Molo, is today expected to lead a visit to a mine in Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the North West where illegal miners are still underground. Efforts to bring them…
