SAPS members at Stilfontein illegal mining operation site. 2 minutes A community representative in Stilfontein in the North West has confirmed the authenticity of a recent letter making rounds on social media platforms indicating that there is cannibalism taking place underground at shaft 11 due to starvation. Hundreds of illegal miners are suspected to still…
[File Image] Newspaper with the matric results. 1 minute The Department of Basic Education (DBE) says its current method of announcing matric results is not in violation of the learners’s privacy. The Information Regulator (IR) earlier issued an enforcement notice on the department claiming the publishing of the results was in violation of the Protection…
Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba speaking at a government event. 2 minutes Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramatuba has accused healthcare workers of indirectly protecting men who make teenage girls pregnant which in many cases is also statutory rape. This comes amid news that of the mothers who gave birth in the province on Christmas Day, 31 were…
2 minutes The Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality in the North West has spent hundreds of millions of rands on projects, including water infrastructure like boreholes, but they remain incomplete. A leaked municipal internal document has revealed that more than R200 million of the funds was used on irregular procurements. It also shows that R1.1…
Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane. 1 minute Human Settlements Minister Thembi Simelane and Deputy Minister Tandi Mahambehlala and briefing the media on their engagement with informal settlements dwellers affected by the recent fire disaster in the City of Cape Town and the progress regarding the provisions of the emergency housing guidelines i.e. rebuild, relocation, restoration…
NSFAS administrators registering students. 1 minute The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has urged landlords of private student accommodation to verify whether a student is registered with the scheme before providing them with accommodation. The financial aid scheme faced a myriad of challenges this year, which include the non-payment of private student accommodation, resulting…
[File photo] IPSS Medical Rescue 1 minute A seven-year-old child is in critical condition after reportedly being assaulted by the stepfather at a farm in oThongathi, north of Durban. The man, who is now wanted, is said to have disappeared with a three-year-old child. IPSS Search and Rescue Spokesperson, Samantha Myrick says, “The child was…
Court gavel 1 minute Twenty-six illegal miners are expected to appear in the Stilfontein Magistrate’s court near Klerksdorp in the North West on Friday. They were arrested this week after four resurfaced at Margaret Shaft while another 22 also emerged from Buffelsfontein Shaft number 10. They are facing charges of trespassing and contravention of the…
2 minutes The Information Regulator has filed an urgent application to halt the annual publishing of the Matric Results in newspapers. The case is expected to be heard on the 7th of January just days before the results of the Class of 2024 will be released. The information Regulator, earlier, issued an enforcement notice on…
Firefighters battle fire at the Joe Slovo Informal Settlement in Langa on December 26, 2024 2 minutes Another shack fire has ravaged informal dwellings on the Cape Flats. The City of Cape Town says they’ve responded to a fire last night in the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa. Hundreds of shacks have been gutted…
