People queue outside to upgrade their electricity metres 1 minute Eskom has urged customers whose metres have been bypassed or connected illegally to go to legal vendors and buy electricity before they come to Eskom offices. The power utility says this will help ease the burden of long queues and help Eskom speed up the…
People waiting to recode their prepaid meters ahead of the deadline. 2 minutes Security has been beefed up outside various Eskom offices in Soweto. This after reports of some criminal syndicates allegedly selling electricity tokens to customers queuing outside Eskom office to have their metres re-configured ahead of tonight’s deadline. There are also reports of people…
A prepaid electricity meter 3 minutes Eskom has given prepaid customers 20:15 (quarter-past eight) tonight as the deadline for upgrading their electricity meters, failing which they will not be able to recharge. The power utility says most prepaid electricity customers had re-coded their meters by June, 2024. Eskom has given reprieve to zero-buyers who will…
Casket bearing the body of 5-year-old Siyabonga Mnisi who died from suspected food poisoning after allegedly buying snacks from a spaza shop in Diepkloof, Soweto. 2 minutes International Relations Minister, Ronald Lamola has called on South Africans to allow authorities to deal with the issue of foreign-owned spaza shops. Owners of food outlets, including spaza…
Suspected gold bearing material and gold processing equipment seized by the police in the Free State in weekly operations to curb illegal mining. (23 November 2024) 1 minute A 42-year-old man has been arrested during an anti-illegal mining operation in the Phomolong informal settlement near Welkom in the Free State. Police say they recovered suspected…
An aerial view of the Stilfontein mine. 2 minutes Residents of Stilfontein near Klerksdorp in the North West have expressed frustration over a lack of communication from authorities as the second phase of the operation to bring illegal miners to the surface continues. Yesterday a crane was used to lower a camera underground a mine…
FILE | Compliance inspections conducted at spaza shops. 2 minutes Several foreign owned spaza shops have been closed in Soweto after they were found with expired food items and non labelled goods. City of Johannesburg officials, together with the police, raided spaza shops in Dobsonville and Diepkloof on Friday. The raids follow incidents of foodborne…
FILE | Compliance inspections conducted at spaza shops. 1 minute Residents of Diepkloof in Soweto will this morning bid farewell to five-year-old Siyabonga Mnisi who died from suspected food poisoning. The Grade R learner at Dumezweni Primary School fell ill on Wednesday after consuming snacks allegedly bought from a local spaza shop. Three of his…
People in Durban queueing to recode their prepaid meters ahead of the 24 November 2024 deadline. 1 minute Customers who fail to upgrade their electricity meters today will be left in the dark tomorrow. Today is Eskom’s deadline to upgrade all prepaid meters across the country. Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has already…
Bullet casings and broken glass at a crime scene. 1 minute Police at Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa in the Free State have made an urgent call on the community to assist in tracing two armed suspects. This after a 61-year-old woman and her 40-year-old son were shot and killed in their home on Friday. The suspects…
