City of Johannesburg’s Emergency Management Service (EMS) rescuers attending to a building collapse in Ormonde on March 2, 2026. Search and rescue operations are set to continue at a construction site in Ormonde in Johannesburg following a deadly building collapse. Six bodies were retrieved from the rubble on Monday, while three are still missing. The…
The accused Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze appear at the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court. Zimbabwean nationals, Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze, are expected to apply for bail in the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. The pair briefly appeared in the same court last week, but the case was postponed for further investigation. The case relates…
FILE | Bullets on top of a table at a police station. A traditional leader has been shot dead and a family member wounded during a robbery at Makhuvha village outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo. The wounded person has been taken to the hospital. Fifty-nine-year-old Chief Ntikedzeni Makhuvha was shot by armed robbers wearing balaclavas and…
Johannesburg Emergency Management Services on the scene at the Ormonde building after it collapsed. Six people have died following a building collapse in Ormonde, south of Johannesburg. It has been confirmed that 12 people were in the building. According to EMS, two people remain trapped, one person has been rescued and three people have not…
Accused number two in Senzo Meyiwa murder trial , Bongani Ntanzi seen appearing in court. Accused number two in the Senzo Meyiwa murder case Bongani Ntanzi has accused police officers of using his phone while he was in custody. The cross examination of Ntanzi has continued at the High Court in Pretoria where he is…
Droplets of water from a tap. Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina says government is exploring a range of measures to alleviate the country’s water crisis. She elaborated on the measures while visiting the Lower Umkhomazi Water Project on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. She says government will focus mostly on people who have no water…
File: Rain drops hitting the roof of a house. The City of Ekurhuleni Disaster and Emergency Management Services says it is on high alert following heavy downpours that affected parts of the metro over the weekend and into Monday morning. While no life-threatening incidents have been reported so far, emergency teams remain on standby to…
Global reaction to US, Israel attacks on Iran. A South African father is pleading for urgent government intervention as tensions escalate in the Middle East following attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran and the latter’s retaliation. Syed Abdullah Husseini says he has not been able to contact his daughter, who lives in…
Smoke rises after the state news agency reported a missile attack on the service center of the U.S. Fifth Fleet, following strikes by the United States and Israel against Iran, in Manama, Bahrain on February 28, 2026. The Iranian embassy in South Africa has committed to working together with the Department of International Relations and…
Smoke rises following an explosion, after Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran on February 28, 2026. The South African government has urged all its citizens currently in the Middle East Region to contact the respective embassies accredited to their countries of residence to ensure that they are registered with and…
