A light bulb. 1 minute More than 1 000 Gauteng residents have been without electricity since the beginning of the week. This follows an outage due to weather conditions – affecting several areas in the province including Roodepoort, Hursthill, Reuven and Randburg. Power utility, City Power has dispatched its technicians to clear the backlog of…
[FILE IMAGE]: A customer in a spaza shop. 2 minutes The community of Ratlou extension in Thaba Nchu remains calm pending the post-mortem results of the eight-year-old boy who died on Christmas Day. It is alleged that Nkosinathi Modise died after he and his three siblings consumed snacks bought from a spaza shop. They were…
[FILE IMAGE]: Shacks on fire. 1 minute Residents of an informal settlement in Nomzamo in Strand, outside Cape Town, are appealing for school uniform for the children in the area following a devastating church fire on Christmas Eve which claimed the life of one person. The residents are busy rebuilding their homes after receiving building…
Handcuffs police use to apprehend suspects. 1 minute A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of her husband. Police Spokesperson Mmako Mophiring says the 42-year-old husband was shot and killed on New Year’s Day. Mophiring says police were patrolling the Naledi section of Bohlokong in the Free State for crime prevention…
[FILE IMAGE]: Police crime scene tape. 1 minute City of Ekurhuleni Member of Mayoral Committee for Development Planning, Nomadlozi Nkosi, has called for justice for the family of a five-year-old girl in Duduza on Gauteng’s Eastrand. The little girl was allegedly raped and stabbed to death on New Year’s Day. Her lifeless body was found…
[FILE IMAGE]: People on holiday at a South African Beach. 1 minute A 12-year-old girl has tragically drowned at Maitland’s Beach, Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape. National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson, Craig Lambinon, says rescue teams brought the girl to shore at Maitland’s Beach, but despite resuscitation efforts, she was declared dead. “After all efforts…
Lifeguards in the summer season. 3 minutes Thirty seconds. That’s the time limit lifeguards set themselves within which to reach a drowning person. About 4,000 volunteer lifeguards have been working alongside 3,000 municipal lifeguards countrywide this festive period. Durban volunteer lifeguards, Bandile Ncanana and Mikhaela Brown say during the holidays there are thousands of people…
[File photo] Police tape cordons off a crime scene. 1 minute The police are investigating the murder of a five-year-old girl whose body was discovered in an open veld in Duduza, Ekurhuleni. It is alleged that the little girl was raped before she was stabbed to death. Police spokesperson Dimakatso Nevhuhulwe says the circumstances surrounding…
An old person at a care facility. 1 minute The Limpopo Social Development Department has warned families against taking their loved ones to unregistered care facilities. MEC Florence Radzilani visited two centres to monitor the quality of care. Radzilani’s spokesperson Joshua Kwapa says they found inhumane living conditions at the centres in Nebo and Phokwane…
Police stop a vehicle with suspected stolen livestock. 1 minute Acting Mpumalanga Police Commissioner Zeph Mkhwanazi has encouraged farmers to take stock of their animals. This as the province’s Verena area sees an alarming increase in incidents of stock theft. Mkhwanazi says farmers must also play their part in the fight against the crime by…
