A lecture hall inside a university. 2 minutes Education activist Keamogetswe Masike has called for the scrapping of registration fees at institutions of higher learning. Masike says many students remain in limbo as they wait for feedback on their National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) applications as registration deadlines are fast approaching. Masike says these…
1 minute The National Head for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) , Godfrey Lebeya, briefs media to outline progress and take stock of milestones achieved during the third quarter of financial year 2024/2025. Live proceedings below:
1 minute A Bloemfontein man has started to serve his life jail term for raping his 16-year-old stepdaughter and infecting her with HIV. The local magistrate’s court sentenced the man yesterday. In 2020, the young girl reported that the stepfather raped her while she was staying with him, her mother and younger sister in a shack in Bloemspruit. She had said the…
File image: Groblers Bridge Border Post sign. 1 minute The Border Management Authority (BMA) says the Groblers Bridge border, outside Lephalale in Limpopo, has been reopened. Operations at the port of entry were temporarily suspended due to flooding that caused damage to infrastructure. BMA says the port that links South Africa and Botswana is now…
Scene where a suspected Inanda gang leader and accomplice were killed by police in Cottonlands in Verulam on January 30, 2025. 1 minute A suspected Inanda gang leader and his accomplice have been shot dead during a shootout with police in Verulam, north of Durban. They were allegedly terrorising residents of Inanda, KwaMashu and surrounding…
File Image: The four accused including Joslin’s mother Kelly Smith appear in the Vredenburg Magistrate’s court. 1 minute The pre-trial hearing in the case of the disappearance of six-year-old Joslin Smit is expected to get underway in the High Court in Cape Town today. The girl’s mother Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquin Appollis and Steveno…
Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla registering at Parliament on June 25, 2024 ahead of her swearing in as an MP. 1 minute Former President Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, is expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court in KwaZulu-Natal today in connection with the July 2021 civil unrest. It is not clear whether she will be facing…
Shaft 11 in Stilfontein where illegal miners were evacuated. 1 minute Police in the North West are calling on relatives of the deceased illegal miners – who were retrieved two weeks ago at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine’s Shaft 11 in Stilfontein – to help with the identification of the bodies. The government-funded rescue operation retrieved 78…
The crime scene of the Inanda murders. 1 minute The Ntuzuma Magistrate’s Court has heard that the Bhambayi community of Inanda, KwaZulu-Zulu is living in fear because of the high crime rate in the area as the bail application for 12 men accused of hacking to death five people in Bhambayi continues. The accused are…
Water droplet coming out of a tap. 2 minutes Johannesburg Water will undergo planned maintenance at the Hector Norris pump station from Friday until next Monday. The water utility says this is aimed at improving infrastructure for sustainable water supply. The affected areas include the Johannesburg CBD, Newtown, Jeppestown, Doorfontein and Mellville. Johannesburg Water Spokesperson…
