3 minutes Dr Jacobus Cilliers, Head of African Futures and Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies, has described the deployment of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as a ‘mission impossible’. He has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa to engage in serious discussions with Rwandan President Paul…
At least 50 Putco buses were set on fire at the Moloto Bus Depot in Mpumalanga. 2 minutes Mpumalanga police say they are investigating malicious damage to property, attempted murder and assault following attacks on some depots of Putco bus company. Fifty buses were torched and two workers were injured overnight. An unknown group of…
Students inside lecture hall 1 minute There is a high demand for placements as the 2025 academic year at institutions of higher learning is set to start. Ahmed Essop, a research associate at the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, says there are reports that demand is thirty times higher than in previous years….
1 minute The case of a 25-year-old woman facing charges of possession of child pornography and money laundering will continue in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg.
File image: Putco buses at a depot. 1 minute Putco Bus Company says the number of its buses that have been torched in Mpumalanga overnight has risen to 50. The company says an unknown group of people ambushed security personnel at the Moloto depot and then set buses on fire. Two Putco workers were injured….
File image: Outside the Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court in North West. 1 minute The Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court in the North West is today expected to deliver judgment in the bail application of a man accused of financing terrorism, Ziyadh Hoorzook. Thirty-five-year-old Hoorzook was remanded in custody following the postponement of his bail application last week. He…
File Image: Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa attends a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg. 1 minute Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chairperson and Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has expressed concern over the security situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This follows the deaths of nine…
Attendees seen at an initiation school 2 minutes An initiate who fled from an illegal initiation school at Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape is allegedly receiving death threats from some community members. They accuse him of disrespecting the AmaXhosa tradition. The boy escaped from the initiation school last month. He has a wound following a…
The South African Weather Service’s (SAWS) outlook for January 28, 2025. 1 minute The South African Weather Service (SAWS) has advised the public to use social media platforms to get weather updates. This comes after it experienced a security breach on Sunday evening. The breach resulted in the collapse of the SAWS Information and Communication…
SABC Television building in Auckland Park, Johannesburg. 3 minutes Senior Counsel for Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, Dali Mpofu has argued that the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is not entitled to repeat the term “Government of National Unity” simply because it is used by the government. Mpofu says that the SABC should not be…
