Map of Free State province Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) says it has drawn a red line when it comes to the culture of impunity, corruption and irregularities at municipalities. The committee has grilled the 23 municipalities in the Free State as part of turning around poor governance and financial…
KZN Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Sipho Hlomuka and the MEC for Health Nomagugu Simelane are under scrutiny over claims of irregularities, political interference and tender rigging within their departments. Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Thamsanqa Ntuli has written to them demanding comprehensive reports detailing relevant facts following claims of corruption against them. Hlomuka and Simelane…
NWU Medical School project The North West University (NWU) has defended the decision to name its medical school after the late struggle stalwart Archbishop, Desmond Tutu, instead of former Bophuthatswana homeland leader, Lucas Mangope. The construction of North West University’s Desmond Tutu school of medicine has started, at the institution’s Potchefstroom campus. — SABC News…
The mother of 11-year-old Jayden-Leek Meek has been charged with his murder at the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court. The Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in western Johannesburg will continue the bail hearing for the woman accused of killing her eleven-year-old son, Jayden-Lee Meek. Meek claims that she has been framed. Her lawyer, Noven Naidoo is expected to deliver…
Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke briefed the Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Portfolio Committee at Parliament in Cape Town on May 29, 2025. Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke has asked KwaZulu-Natal’s Cooperative Governance Department to intervene after the ANC-led Umkhanyakude District Municipality consistently failed to address material findings made by the AG. The municipality is said to have…
A home where four members from one family were killed during the mass murder in Lusikisiki. The trial of six men charged with the mass murder of 18 people at Ngobozana in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape is expected to start today. The suspects are facing 19 murder charges, including a Kwa Bhaca murder, as…
Police vans at the scene of an arrest. Protea Glen ward 135 councillor in Soweto Phelelani Sindani has urged the police to provide its officers with counselling after a female officer was shot and killed by her police captain ex-boyfriend in the early hours of Sunday morning. Sindani says the incidents of police brutally killing…
A road with potholes The Manyatseng Taxi Association has expressed disappointment that construction work on the R708 between Clocolan and Marquard has not started despite an announcement by the MEC for Community Safety, Roads and Transport Jabu Mbalula that a contractor was appointed and commencing work, a week ago. A protest two weeks ago by…
Electricity pylons. The Director of the Centre of Sociological Research and Practice at the University of Johannesburg, Dr. Trevor Ngwane, says many South Africans are under economic pressure, making it difficult for them to afford paying for electricity services. [WATCH] University of Johannesburg’s Dr. Trevor Ngwane says the government needs to change its approach and…
The three guilty people in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping case Western Cape police say they’ve searched an area in the Middelpos informal settlement at Saldanha Bay on the West Coast in connection with the disappearance of seven-year-old Joshlin Smith. She was six-years-old when she disappeared from her home in February last year. Kelly Smith, Steveno…
