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…
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi 1 minute Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has denied that he is vilifying private medical aid schemes. He says the medical aid schemes are not playing an active role in the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Motsoaledi was answering a question from the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Igor Scheurkogel in the National…
Expired food items, counterfeit prescription medication, body lotion and other prohibited goods are pictured at a warehouse in Bluff in Durban during a police raid on 20 November 2024. 2 minutes Consumers are urged to pay special attention to the food labelling, the production and best before dates as precautionary measure before buying and consuming…
Customers at an Eskom office. 1 minute Eskom says customers don’t need to come to their offices, but can recode their prepaid meters themselves. This as hundreds of customers flock to Eskom offices in a last minute rush to get their meters recoded ahead of the Sunday deadline. Eskom has also refuted claims that it…
