FILE PHOTO: An employee inspects tablets as they move along the production line at a pharmaceutical plant South African Physician Professor Jimmy Volmink says the country urgently needs to produce its own locally manufactured pharmaceuticals, as importing medicine is getting expensive. Volmink was the Keynote Speaker at a Global Health Public Institution Lecture held at…
File image | A framed picture of Hillary Gardee. The Hillary Gardee murder trial has been postponed to the 12th of next month in the Mpumalanga High Court sitting in Mbombela. This is the fifth postponement of the trial. The reasons the court has cited include allowing the accused, Rassie Nkune, to secure a new legal…
South African money notes and coins. The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and its public sector affiliated unions are calling for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed increase in the government medical aid scheme, GEMS. GEMS has proposed a 9.8% increase for 2026. The unions have rejected the increase. Earlier this year, GEMS…
File image | Sewage spillage. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) in the North West has raised concerns about what it terms, disregard for Chapter 9 recommendations, by provincial government departments and municipalities. Commissioner Dr Henk Boshoff has released a damning service delivery report in Mahikeng, highlighting a systematic failure to render services in…
File image | Former Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba is inferred with a doctorate from the University of Johannesburg during a graduation ceremony on 22 July 2025. Former Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba has been charged with corruption related to a multi-billion-rand tender at Transnet. The tender involves the procurement of more than 1 000…
The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial continues at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria. LIVE STREAM:
Two staff members were shot at the Inxiweni Primary School in Tembisa, Ekhurhuleni. Police have launched an investigation following the brutal murder of two staff members, who were shot at the Inxiweni Primary School in Tembisa, Ekhuruleni, by unknown gunmen. Police say preliminary reports reveal that the incident occurred around 5pm on Tuesday while the…
The City has denied that the decision to remove the banner was due to the upcoming G20 Leaders’ Summit. The City of Johannesburg has moved to clarify what it terms misinformation surrounding the removal of a banner by civic group, Solidarity, put up along the M1 motorway. The City says the banner was set up…
Media law expert Emma Sadleir, who is the State’s fourth witness to testify in Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla’s trial relating to the 2021 July civil unrest, will continue with her testimony. On Tuesday, social media posts that allegedly incited and encouraged violence were shared on three major WhatsApp groups of some of the active coordinators of the…
Modack and 14 co-accused face over a hundred charges, including murder The state presented electronic device location pins, or pings, to the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town, in the trial of underworld figure Nafiz Modack and his co-accused Zane Killian. Prosecution is slowly moving to prove a case that the two accused had…
