A pair of male elephants is seen in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. 1 minute The North West Department of Economic Development, Environment, Conservation and Tourism, says it’s considering all scientific methods of controlling the elephant population growth at the Madikwe Game Reserve. This comes after the True Green Alliance Wildlife NGO raised concerns about the…
Illegal miners rescued at Sabie Mine in Mpumalanga on December 5, 2024. 2 minutes A ninth miner has been brought to the surface while 150 miners are still feared to be trapped in an abandoned mine at Sabie in Mpumalanga. Premier Mandla Ndlovu is at the scene as rescue operations continue. Mpumalanga police say additional…
Meter boxes found on a farm in Fochville during a special takedown operation on 03 November 2024. 1 minute An 80-year-old man was arrested in Fochville for electricity theft worth R6 million. The farmer was found to have been illegally connecting, distributing, and selling electricity to communities on his farming property. The arrest was made by…
[File Image]: A suspected illegal miner looks at the entrance of an underground gold mine. 1 minute Two more illegal miners have been retrieved from the abandoned shaft in Sabie, Mpumalanga. This brings to ten the number of illegal miners brought to surface since yesterday. The bodies of three illegal miners were also retrieved from…
An illegal miner 2 minutes Police in North West say they have now retrieved seven bodies from the disused mine shaft in Stilfontein. Six more bodies were retrieved in the last 24 hours. One body was retrieved last month. The High Court in Pretoria granted an interim order, allowing for food to be delivered to…
Pit latrines at an Eastern Cape school 1 minute The Eastern Cape Department of Education says it is working around the clock to eradicate pit toilets at rural schools. Briefing the media on the state of readiness for the 2025 academic year, MEC Fundile Gade says the department has utilised its allocated infrastructure grant and…
An entrance to an underground mine. 1 minute Community organization, Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) has called for the acceleration of retrieval operations at the Stilfontein mine in the North West. Last month, police retrieved one body and six others have been retrieved since Monday. According to media reports, a note from the…
Debris left on the road following protest action. 2 minutes Residents of Protea Glen in the south of Johannesburg took to streets to protest against the lack of water in the area. The protest started early on Wednesday, with residents saying they’ve been without water for over a week. Disgruntled community members took to the…
Packets of crystal meth. 1 minute Three Mozambican nationals, Alexandre Alberto Chissano, Raul Silvadore Homo, and Antonio Lisboa, have been remanded in custody following their brief appearance at the Johannesburg Regional Court. The suspects were arrested by the HAWKS on Monday during a special operation targeting drug trafficking. They are facing charges of dealing in…
Transport Minister Barbara Creecy at the Launch of the 2024 Festive Season Road Safety Campaign. 1 minute South Africa has committed to a global initiative aimed at reducing traffic-related deaths by 50% by 2030. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that road crashes claim over 1.19 million lives globally each year, with 20 to 50…
