[FILE IMAGE]: Doctors during a pediatric donor surgery. The Department of Health is embarking on a massive campaign to encourage members of the public to donate body organs and tissues in a bid to save lives. Department’s spokesperson, Forster Mohale, says there are more than 2,000 patients awaiting organ and tissue donors across the country….
Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Nobuhle Nkabane. South African National Editors’ Forum’s Amina Frense says there is lack of government accountability to curb corruption on tender irregularities in the country as a whole. Frense has pointed to the appointments of ANC Youth League members who are unqualified, to public hospital boards in Gauteng…
[FILE IMAGE]: Hand tools for illicit mining found by members of the SA Police Service. Police in Mpumalanga have arrested more than 20 suspected illegal miners in different areas this weekend. Fifteen of the zama-zamas were allegedly found in possession of explosives in Barberton. Eight of the suspects were arrested in the Pilgrim’s Rest area….
[FILE IMAGE]: A soccer ball on the field in a stadium. A squad of more than 20 of Cape Town youth taking part in a football tournament in Spain has been left stranded overseas. This after the BT Football Academy allegedly failed to pay for return flights and accommodation for the squad. The group left…
Gauteng Education Department MEC Matome Chiloane. Gauteng Education MEC, Matome Chiloane, has warned parents against waiting until the last minute to apply for school admissions for their children. Chiloane was briefing the media in Johannesburg on the department’s readiness for the 2026 online admissions. Applications for learners who will be going to Grades 1 and…
Juvenile Chacma baboons play on a vehicle during a raid on refuse bins by a troop of Chacma baboons foraging in the residential neighborhood of Capri in Cape Town, South Africa. REUTERS/Nic Bothma Baboon management in Cape Town is once more in the spotlight following proposals by the Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team…
For Mandela Day Philip Seroux coordinated logistics to raise funds and collect equipment for, to build the dilapidated house of an elderly woman in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo. Businesses, individuals, correctional services, police and other role-players in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, have collaborated to repair the dilapidated house of a 75-year-old woman. This…
SAPS says 500 000 of their applicants in the recruitment drive, are women The South African Police Service (SAPS) says over 300 of the one million people who have applied to join the service are graduates and 500 000 are women. Gauteng had the highest number of applicants for the Basic Police Development Learning Programme…
Family members of two people who died in a fire in the Kennedy Road informal settlement are appealing for assistance to bury their loved ones. A 25-year-old woman and her one-year-old child were killed when their house caught fire in the early hours of Saturday. A candle is suspected to have caused the fire. Over…
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson [R] Serious safety concerns, poor quality of materials, and a lack of oversight are some of the reasons for the George building collapse on the 6th of May last year. These are part of the outcomes of an investigation by the Council for the Built Environment, which…
