The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran. The Iranian embassy in South Africa says it is mourning the death of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali-Khamenei, who was killed in a joint US-Israeli military strike. The embassy has also committed to working together with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation to…
FILE| People walk near a mural of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Tehran, Iran, June 23, 2025. South Africans who are stranded in the Middle East as the joint US-Israeli military strike on Iran continues are pleading for urgent interventions from the government. The strikes have forced many airlines…
Flights are suspended across the Middle East as airports in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha remain empty following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. South Africans stranded in the Middle East and the Gulf will have to wait for airspace across the region to open in order to return home. Department of International Relations and…
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson . The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure says Minister Dean Macpherson has welcomed the State Security Agency’s (SSA) involvement in investigating allegations of the unlawful interception of sensitive information within the department. 🚓 The State Security Agency will investigate how Ministers are being spied on, allegedly by their…
Sanitary pads Free State Health MEC Monyatso Mahlatsi has called for urgent co-ordinated action after a University of the Free State (UFS) study. Certain chemicals were found in some sanitary pads and panty liners following the study. Mahlatsi says there is no evidence of immediate harm, but the findings have raised concerns about possible long-term…
File Image of person getting a health screening. The National Health Department has urged South Africans to screen for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), saying they are preventable. It says the diseases are responsible for close to 60% of all deaths in the country. The department has warned of the rising rate of mortality from cardiovascular diseases,…
FILE | March against GBVF. In 2020/21 intimate partners were responsible for 60.1% of femicides in South Africa, this is according to a 2025 study published by the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC). Gender-based violence (GBV) expert Dr Nadia Bernon says the rising cases of GBV have led government to officially declare GBV and…
Cattle vaccinated in KwaZulu-Natal as of the part national mass vaccination, 27 February 2026. Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen says they aim to vaccinate 80% of the national herd of 14 million cattle by the end of the year, which is expected to reduce the number of cases of foot and mouth by 70%. He says…
Aftermath of a shack fire that killed five children in Ballito, KZN. Investigations are under way into the cause of a shack fire in which five children died in Ballito on Durban’s north coast on Saturday. The father of the children Sivuyile Noyila says he is devastated. The children’s mother is in hospital in a…
[FILE PHOTO] Shack fire. Authorities in KwaZulu-Natal say a total of eight people have died in two separate fire incidents in the province on Saturday. The first incident claimed the lives of five children when their informal settlement caught fire at Shaka’s Head near Ballito on Durban’s north coast. The victims were aged between 1…
