Healthcare worker prepares a vaccination 1 minute The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is urging South Africans to get vaccinated ahead of the influenza season. This year, the flu season began in the last week of March, four weeks earlier than in 2024. According to pneumonia surveillance in public hospitals, it’s the earliest start…
Waterfall in Augrabies Falls National Park 1 minute Police in the Northern Cape have launched a search operation after a 66-year-old visitor from Cape Town was reported missing at the Augrabies Falls National Park. The missing man booked into the park last week Thursday. It is believed that he went hiking on Friday and failed…
Person in prison 1 minute A 57-year-old Northern Cape man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison by the Kakamas Regional Court for raping an 11-year-old girl in 2022. The man accosted the minor at Augrabies when she was walking home. When the child refused to accompany him to the shop, he forcefully dragged…
African Congress for Transformation leader and former African National Congress Secretary-General and Free State Premier, Ace Magashule. 1 minute The trial of former Free State Premier Ace Magashule who is accused number 13 in the asbestos roof removal case involving R255 million is finally under way at the High Court in Bloemfontein with indications that…
CRL Rights Commission chairperson Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva. 2 minutes Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights (CLR) Commission has raised concerns that religious leaders who work closely with children are not being vetted against the National Sex Offender Register. The CRL Rights Commission has established a committee, comprising religious leaders, to investigate ongoing abuses in churches. This comes…
Shaft 11 of a disused mine at Stilfontein. 3 minutes Only 12 bodies of illegal mine workers, who had died in abandoned mines in Stilfontein in North West, have been positively identified by their families. Seventy-eight bodies were brought to the surface in a combined effort by the community and a government led retrieval operation….
Silhouette of a church cross 1 minute The Cultural, Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Rights Commission has set up a committee comprising religious leaders, to look into ongoing abuses in churches. This follows its investigative hearings regarding the commercialisation of religion and abuse of people’s belief systems. The Commission says it continues to receive complaints of…
FILE | Students at WSU campus 2 minutes Police in the Eastern Cape say no arrests have been made after the fatal shooting of a Walter Sisulu University (WSU) student at the Mthatha campus, as access to the crime scene is blockaded by protesting students. The shooting incident happened earlier today when protesting students allegedly…
Person holds SA money 2 minutes Mpumalanga Finance MEC Bonakele Majuba has issued a stern warning to provincial government departments owing municipalities in the province. Majuba has met with representatives of the 20 Mpumalanga municipalities in Mbombela. The financial status of municipalities came under the spotlight during the meeting. Majuba also says the appointment of…
[File photo] Bucket toilets seen lined up in an informal settlement 2 minutes The use of buckets toilets has increased by over 50 percent in the Northern Cape. According to the 2022/2023 census, the province has the highest proportion of households still using bucket toilets followed by North West. The province recorded 52,5 percent increase…
