Vice Chairperson of the FW de Klerk Foundation, Christina Teichmann 1 minute As South Africa gears up to celebrate Human Rights Day on Friday, the FW de Klerk Foundation has released its 2024 report card in Cape Town. The report assesses the practical enjoyment of rights and freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights over…
[File photo] Convicted murderer and rapist Thabo Bester 2 minutes Convicted serial rapist and murderer Thabo Bester has turned to the Constitutional Court in a bid to seek leave to appeal against the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein’s judgment that dashed his hopes of challenging the alleged poor conditions of his incarceration and his…
Caregiving. 1 minute The Western Cape Department of Social Development says they are celebrating World Social Work Day today under the theme, “Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Enduring Well-being”. Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Jaco Londt, says the focus is the need for people to work closer together, across generations, towards a thriving economy and…
1 minute The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria is hearing a legal bid to invalidate and halt the analogue switch-off set for the end of the month. LIVE STREAM:
1 minute The Joshlin Smith kidnapping trial continues in the High Court sitting at Saldanha on the Cape West Coast today. The child’s mother Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn are facing charges of kidnapping and human trafficking. This after the seven-year-old went missing a year ago. LIVE STREAM:
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy 3 minutes Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has announced interventions to stabilise and rebuild the Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) entity of the Department. She is briefing the media, alongside the Ministerial Intervention Team that was tasked to investigate the source of problems at the Air Traffic and Navigation Services Board…
Digital migration is the conversion of the existing analogue format to a digital signal while maintaining the content, context, and structure of the record. 3 minutes The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria will today hear a legal bid to invalidate and halt the analogue switch-off set for the end of the month. The applicants charge…
Ekurhuleni 1 minute The City of Ekurhuleni’s Disaster and Emergency Management Services firefighters on Gauteng’s East Rand have responded to a welding incident at a fuel truck company in Hillcrest, which caused two articulated trucks and one rigid truck to catch fire. According to reports one articulated truck was fully loaded with 40 000 litres…
1 minute A 24-year-old male suspect and a 35-year-old woman have been arrested in Cape Town in separate incidents for the alleged possession of illegal firearms and ammunition. Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi says police in the Manenberg area were conducting stop-and-search patrols when they spotted three men approaching. Swartbooi says officers followed them and located…
SASSA Black cards 1 minute Social grant recipients have been warned that the yellow SASSA cards will stop functioning after the March 20th deadline. Beneficiaries have until Thursday this week to swap their yellow SASSA cards with the new black Postbank cards. Postbank CEO Nikki Mbengashe says they will continue to issue the new black…
