Graduation ceremony of new metro police officers at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, 9 September 2025. The City of Cape Town has conceded it needs to do more to curb gang violence on the Cape Flats. This as 700 new Metro Police Officers are set to graduate at the Athlone Stadium on Tuesday. The City’s…
Gauteng Health MEC Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko addressed the post-budget briefing at the Provincial Legislature on July 16, 2025. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has again called for the removal of the Gauteng Health MEC, Nomantu Nkomo-Ralehoko and the Health Department head, Lesiba Malotana. This follows a revelation that the department has an outstanding debt of R8 billion…
Beds inside of a healthcare facility. The Constitutional Court has heard from Counsel on behalf of the Solidarity Trade Union and others that nothing in the National Health Act (NHA) constrains the Minister in deciding what health services might or might not be subject to a certificate of need. A certificate of need is a…
Graphic showing a crime scene The police’s hostage negotiators as well as Special Task Force and other units from the South African Police Services (SAPS) are on the ground in Mamelodi East, Buffer Zone responding to a hostage situation. That’s according to Brigadier Brenda Muridili. It is alleged that at about 8:00 am, a police…
Parliament’s Committee on Transport Chairperson Selelo Selamolela addressed the media on September 8, 2025. The Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Transport Selelo Selamolela says that the deadly shootings that happened at Maponya Mall in Gauteng last month are just the tip of the iceberg within the taxi industry. An e-hailing driver, 27-year-old Siyanda Mthokozisi Mvelase…
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has welcomed the two life sentences handed down to Raymond Smith, 37, convicted of killing a Pretoria couple. The High Court in Pretoria found Smith guilty of murdering a couple and stabbing their son during a robbery. Smith had targeted them after seeing the listing of the family’s R2.7 million…
Acting Police Minister, Prof Firoz Cachalia at the Roodepoort Police Station in Gauteng on August 10, 2025. Acting Police Minister, Prof Firoz Cachalia, Deputy Police Minister, Dr Polly Boshielo, together with Justice and Constitutional Development Deputy Minister, Andries Nel, will visit Mitchell’s Plain and Mfuleni in Cape Town due to the recent spate of gang-related…
Deputy President Paul Mashatile Deputy President Paul Mashatile says the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funding withdrawal will not collapse the fight against the HIV/AIDS scourge. Speaking at the opening of the 12th South African AIDS Conference in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, on Monday, Mashatile said the South African government is doing everything possible…
Constitutional Court. The Constitutional Court will on Tuesday morning hear the case that trade union Solidarity and others have brought challenging the constitutionality of the National Health Act (NHA) and the National Health Insurance Act. In July last year, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria declared certain sections of the NHA unconstitutional. The Health…
Deputy President Paul Mashatile speaking at the 12th South Africa AIDS Conference in Kempton Park, 8 September 2025. Deputy President Paul Mashatile says the South African government is doing everything possible to close the gap created by the USAID funding withdrawal. Mashatile says this has had a severe impact on the fight against the scourge…
