The Rights of Rastafari Roundtable is underway in Johannesburg. The Roundtable comes after the Commission received systematic nature of complaints on human rights violations from the Rastafari community. 1 minute The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will convene its first Rights of Rastafari Roundtable in Johannesburg this morning. The discussion aims to address concerns…
[File image] SAPS murder case graphic. 2 minutes President Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the killing of traditional leaders in some parts of the country. He has described it as an ‘affront to the nation’. Addressing Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders in Parliament on the official opening of the National House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders on…
A fire rages in the Witzenberg area in this image captured on 25 February 2025. 2 minutes SANParks says they will deploy aerial resources to the Cape Town City Bowl and Red Hill as firefighters battle escalating wildfires in the Table Mountain National Park. SANParks says gusting winds overnight led to the spread of the…
Mahika Mahikeng Festival 2 minutes The North West Department of Economic Development has stated that the North West Parks and Tourism was required to contribute R7 million to last year’s Mahika Mahikeng Cultural Festival due to a contractual obligation. This comes after MEC Bitsa Lenkopane addressed the media following allegations by two former acting CEOs,…
Damage after a flood. 1 minute Heavy overnight rainfall has led to widespread flooding across the KwaZulu-Natal south coast. The Provincial Department of Cooperative Governance says the most affected areas include the N2 at Murchison, the Umbango Bridge, the Nkongweni Bridge at Margate, and Isipingo on the N2 south of Durban. Teams have been deployed…
From left to right – A delegation from AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement including Jaco Kleynhans, Flip Buys, Dirk Hermann, Kallie Kriel pictured at the White House in Washington in the US on 25 February 2025. 2 minutes A delegation from AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement has met with representatives of United States President Donald…
Seven Chinese nationals convicted of kindnapping and forced labour to be sentenced in March 2025. 1 minute Seven Chinese nationals have been found guilty of 158 out of 160 charges related to kidnapping and forced labour involving 91 Malawian nationals. The convicts appeared before the Johannesburg High court yesterday. In 2019, the Hawks raided a…
Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Mimmy Gondwe 2 minutes The Department of Higher Education and Training says it is in talks with the South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Student Association to meet some of their demands. The association represents the interests of TVET students nationwide. It cites the withholding…
SANDF Aeroplane 1 minute A second plane has landed in the country with more injured South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers evacuated from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Three of the critically injured ones arrived in the country last night. Last month, 14 South African soldiers were killed in fighting between…
[File image] 1 minute The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) says it will immediately mobilise its members across the country to find the 1.1 million people living with HIV who are currently not on treatment. This follows the launch of the new HIV treatment campaign, which aims to get the missing patients on treatment…
