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…
State witness in Joshlin Smith’s case, Lorentia Lombaard, seen testifying at the case. 2 minutes Kelly Smith’s sister, Mickeyla Daniels, a police officer based in Upington in the Northern Cape, has taken to the witness stand in the Western Cape High Court sitting at Saldanha Bay. During her testimony Daniels says a week after Joshlin’s…
The invasive alien plant, believed to be from South America, was first recorded at Hartbeespoort Dam in 2011. 2 minutes The Water and Sanitation Department has released Weevil insects to help eradicate the invasive alien water plant in the Hartebeespoort dam water system. The insects were brought in from America as part of a collaboration…
