Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has outlined his department’s priority of electrifying households that still remain without power, 31 years into the country’s democratic dispensation. Following the tabling of his department’s budget vote in Parliament yesterday, Ramokgopa says unelectrified households, particularly in areas including informal settlements, deep rural areas and newly formed housing developments, now account…
Randburg Magistrate’s Court. The Randburg Magistrates Court has granted bail to the 12 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Special Task Force members accused of the murder of Hawks investigator Frans Mathipa. The twelve are also charged with the alleged kidnapping of Ethiopian national and alleged ISIS leader, Abdella Abadiga, and his bodyguard in December…
A man throws water on a shack fire. A family of five has died during a shack fire in Olievenhoutbosch in Centurion, Pretoria, this morning. It is not clear what caused the fire. But a member of the community says the deceased includes a mother, her children and grandchildren. BREAKING NEWS: A family of five…
The Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, will today launch the 2025 Global AIDS Update report. LIVE STREAM:
Mduduzi Mnisi accused of killing 14-year-old Likhona Fose appears before the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg on 09 July 2025. Mduduzi Mnisi, the man accused of killing 14-year-old Likhona Fose, is due back in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court today. He was granted bail of R5000 on Wednesday. He is charged with the premeditated murder of…
Hijacked buildings in Johannesburg’s central business district. The City of Johannesburg’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Housing Mlungisi Mabaso says South Africans are also involved in hijacking abandoned buildings in the CBD. Mabaso and Joburg acting Mayor Kenny Kunene spearheaded a raid on the hijacked buildings earlier this week. The illegal occupants of the…
Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero fixing a pothole, 10 July 2025. Johannesburg residents have expressed outrage after Mayor Dada Morero announced that repairing the city’s potholes could cost approximately R700 million. The staggering figure, announced during the launch of the city’s war on potholes campaign in Hyde Park, has ignited debate over budget priorities and years…
Construction site of Odendaalsrus police station in Free State. The construction of a multi-million-rand police station in Odendaalsrus in the Free State which started in August 2018 has still not been completed. This despite R77 million being budgeted for the project. R43 million had already been spent on the construction by July 2020. The site…
SANDF members during a parade. The Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg is expected to deliver judgment today in the bail application of 12 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) Special Task Force members accused of the murder of Hawks investigator Frans Mathipa. Last week, both the defence and the state presented their closing arguments. The…
Former Reaction Unit 6 leader Johan Marais appears in the High Court in Pretoria on July 10, 2025. Former apartheid-era police officer Johan Marais has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka. Marais, who led the Reaction Unit 6, was found guilty of Nyoka’s premeditated murder in…
