Shaft 10 exit used by illegal mineworkers to emerge from underground. 3 minutes Another 10 illegal mine workers have come up from underground at the Buffelsdoorn mine in Stilfontein in the North West. This brings the number of illegal miners who have come to the surface to close to 1300 since the middle of August….
Sign showing a road closed 1 minute Gauteng Traffic Police are notifying road users of the closure of Soweto Highway, Golden Highway, Nasrec Road and Booysens Road from this afternoon until at least tomorrow after the prayer session. The closures are due to the national prayer event to be held on Sunday at the FNB…
Graduates at a ceremony 6 minutes The Free State government is now distancing itself from assisting some of the graduates who were part of the provincial government’s international bursary programme. Beneficiaries of the programme, that was the brainchild of former Premier Ace Magashule, have been left in distress. Magashule initially introduced the programme in 2010…
Pieces on the glass on the after an accident. 1 minute Two people have been killed when the bakkie they were travelling in overturned on R57 between Kestel and QwaQwa, in the Free State. Emergency Medical Services spokesperson Sipho Towa says the bakkie was allegedly transporting boys from Kestel to an initiation school in QwaQwa….
The shoreline near the Umhlanga Lighthouse. 1 minute The body of a 23-year-old Limpopo student who drowned at Umhlanga at the start of the week has been recovered in Ballito, further north along the KwaZulu-Natal coast. NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon says the missing man’s body was found and recovered from the sea by police and…
Rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes. 1 minute The Durban Magistrates Court has granted the state a final postponement until February 7 next year, in the murder case of rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes and Tebello ‘Tibs’ Motsoane, in order to draw up an indictment. Forbes and Motsoane were gunned down outside a restaurant in Durban in February…
Spaza shop 1 minute KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli says he is concerned about the high number of spaza shops that are still not complying with the by-laws to operate in the province. Ntuli spoke on the progress made by the provincial government in its response to the nationwide food borne illness crisis. This comes after…
[FILE IMAGE]: Pylons carry electricity from South African power utility Eskom’s Koeberg nuclear plant near Cape Town. 2 minutes The Department of Mineral Resources today hosted a community forum, StandUp4Nuclear South Africa, to inform residents of the Kouga Municipality, of the economic development of a proposed nuclear plant in Thyspunt in the Eastern Cape. The…
Fireman fighting a blaze 1 minute Air support has been called in to waterbomb a fire on the slopes of the Paarl Mountain in Boland in the Western Cape. Cape Winelands Fire spokesperson Jo-Anne Otto says fire crews from Paarl and Stellenbosch are on the scene. She says they’re being supported by two helicopters. “The…
Police visibility at the Stilfontein mine area. 2 minutes Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says Operation Vala Umgodi had serious shortcomings as it didn’t consider the socioeconomic challenges in communities. Mchunu was briefing stakeholders in Stilfontein in the North West. He says the vast majority of illegal miners are from outside the country and there are…
