[FILE IMAGE]: A soccer ball on the field in a stadium. A squad of more than 20 of Cape Town youth taking part in a football tournament in Spain has been left stranded overseas. This after the BT Football Academy allegedly failed to pay for return flights and accommodation for the squad. The group left…
Gauteng Education Department MEC Matome Chiloane. Gauteng Education MEC, Matome Chiloane, has warned parents against waiting until the last minute to apply for school admissions for their children. Chiloane was briefing the media in Johannesburg on the department’s readiness for the 2026 online admissions. Applications for learners who will be going to Grades 1 and…
Juvenile Chacma baboons play on a vehicle during a raid on refuse bins by a troop of Chacma baboons foraging in the residential neighborhood of Capri in Cape Town, South Africa. REUTERS/Nic Bothma Baboon management in Cape Town is once more in the spotlight following proposals by the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team…
For Mandela Day Philip Seroux coordinated logistics to raise funds and collect equipment for, to build the dilapidated house of an elderly woman in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo. Businesses, individuals, correctional services, police and other role-players in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, have collaborated to repair the dilapidated house of a 75-year-old woman. This…
SAPS says 500 000 of their applicants in the recruitment drive, are women The South African Police Service (SAPS) says over 300 of the one million people who have applied to join the service are graduates and 500 000 are women. Gauteng had the highest number of applicants for the Basic Police Development Learning Programme…
Family members of two people who died in a fire in the Kennedy Road informal settlement are appealing for assistance to bury their loved ones. A 25-year-old woman and her one-year-old child were killed when their house caught fire in the early hours of Saturday. A candle is suspected to have caused the fire. Over…
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson [R] Serious safety concerns, poor quality of materials, and a lack of oversight are some of the reasons for the George building collapse on the 6th of May last year. These are part of the outcomes of an investigation by the Council for the Built Environment, which…
Initiates graduates in Limpopo as the province marks the end of the initiation school season. The traditional initiation season in Limpopo is coming to an end and initiates have started returning home. The provincial government approved more than 600 initiation schools for the winter season and more than 25,000 male initiates from the across the…
Operation Dudula president Zandile Dabula Operation Dabula claims that the strain undocumented migrants are placing on South Africa’s healthcare system is evident. The civil organisation also says that public complaints are driving its actions. This statement comes after it was criticised for a recent campaign preventing undocumented migrants from accessing public healthcare facilities. Operation Dudula…
[FILE IMAGE]: Doctors perform surgery on a patient in a public health hospital as part of the Surgical Marathon initiative in honour of Mandela Day, 2025. Gauteng’s public hospitals performed over 800 surgical procedures in just 12 hours. The Gauteng health department says the third edition of the Mandela Day Surgical Marathon Initiative, surpassed last…
