One of the many roads that have been washed away during flooding in KZN. 3 minutes KwaZulu-Natal Transport MEC, Siboniso Duma, has expressed concerns that 30 contractors who were awarded road tenders cost the department R4,6 billion because they don’t complete the projects by the deadline. Two of these contractors have abandoned projects altogether. Duma…
[File photo] Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube 4 minutes The Department of Basic Education says 90% of the public schools are currently in a better position in terms of the infrastructure assessment conducted. The department gave an update on the progress made on school infrastructure to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education in Parliament. It…
Document showing corruption. 2 minutes Mpumalanga Premier, Mandla Ndlovu, says the provincial Department of Education did not follow the correct procurement process when it bought 22 laptops. He says the devices that allegedly cost over R2 million were also of poor quality. Ndlovu says the money spent on the laptops will be recovered from the…
Home Affairs building. 1 minute The Democratic Alliance has welcomed the Constitutional Court’s decision to scrap Section 6(1) of the South African Citizenship Act of 1995, calling it a major victory. The section stipulates that South Africans automatically lose their citizenship if they voluntarily acquire another nationality, unless they apply for and receive permission to…
Three missing constables, 24-year-old Constable Cebekhulu Linda (male), 30-year-old Constable Keamogetswe Buys (female) and 20-year-old Constable Boipelo Senoge (female). 2 minutes Free State Premier, Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae has described the day the bodies of the three constables were retrieved from the Hennops River in Gauteng, and the night of the announcement by the National police commissioner…
Weskoppies Hospital power to be restored following Gauteng health commitment to settle overdue account. 2 minutes The City of Tshwane says it has restored the power supply to Weskoppies Hospital. This follows a commitment by the Gauteng Health Department to settle its R1.2 million electricity debt for March and April. The City switched off electricity to…
Ditebogo Phalane 1 minute The three accused in the Ditebogo Phalane murder trial used a similar modus operandi in other crimes. This is according to Investigating Officer, Sergeant Sevhasa Mashudu, who testified for the State in their bail application underway at the Pretoria North Magistrates’ Court. They allegedly shot and killed 5-year-old Phalane when they…
3 minutes National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola says the investigation into the deaths of the three police constables is still ongoing. Masemola says police are still doing investigations on the vehicle they were travelling in. He was addressing mourners at the memorial service of Keamogetswe Buys, Cebekhulu Linda and Boipelo Senoge in Bloemfontein. Their remains…
2 minutes The South African Police Union (SAPU) in the Free State has described the loss of three constables as a sad day for the union. Speaking at the official memorial service in Bloemfontein, SAPU second vice president Peter Ntsime says the death of constables Boipelo Senoge, Keamogetswe Buys and Cebekhulue Linda is still hard…
Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge at the Judicial Conduct Tribunal. 1 minute A forensic and legal linguist analysing text messages between Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge and Judges’ Secretary Andiswa Mengo found that the exchanges started off in a professional manner but slowly degenerated with the use of emojis to “convey sexual acts”….
